Esc versus Meta and where-is

Esc versus Meta and where-is

[Roland Winkler]

In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-04-09 on tfkp12
configured using `configure  --prefix=/nfs/common --libexecdir=/nfs/common/lib --bindir=/nfs/common/lib/emacs/21.2/bin/i686-Linux --mandir=/nfs/common/share/man --infodir=/nfs/common/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-x --with-x-toolkit=athena i386-pc-linux'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil


The keymap of BibTeX mode contains

    (define-key km "\M-\t" 'bibtex-complete-string)
    (define-key km [(meta tab)] 'bibtex-complete-key)

So bibtex-complete-key can be called by typing M-tab whereas
bibtex-complete-string can be called by typing ESC-tab. This is
distinguished correctly by describe-bindings in the list of defined
keys. However, where-is says that bibtex-complete-string is bound to
M-tab. Is this a bug of where-is? 

What key sequence should be typed for calling bibtex-complete-string
if one is using a tty without a meta key? Or might it be a better
idea to change the above key bindings?

Thanks a lot,

Roland
(new maintainer of bibtex.el)