From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Griepentrog Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6616: S-TAB is mismapped in the *Help* buffer Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:30:26 -0700 Message-ID: <4C5649E2.4030603@gmail.com> References: <4C3AB426.2040500@gmail.com> <83pqyssj5a.fsf@gnu.org> <83mxtwsei9.fsf@gnu.org> <4C3BFCB6.8000002@gmail.com> <4C55B0F9.1060101@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280723901 16856 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2010 04:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 04:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adrian Robert , 6616@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 06:38:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ofmmz-000346-MF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=md/0oLjvSYKtg7AIN0TW8qPC84ZdkBWJBPqriHxMIENl7D07aQJSUFQ6QcpNZJG9Yi LYUtLUN3LL3JslZLvKJCvqKJxmWsOPvm7AB2DQW4srl1LyuIrwbholpcrogIbmaNqTcl f9e4ZYbl4+1FlP+82Hyb5+tYurVpTRGOzlgJ4= Original-Received: by 10.114.67.14 with SMTP id p14mr6683731waa.102.1280723427704; Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from walnut.local (c-76-102-20-45.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.102.20.45]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d35sm10580216waa.21.2010.08.01.21.30.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:30:27 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:31:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39134 Archived-At: On 8/1/10 5:03 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I say, pick a solution and make it consistent across the modes > > shipped with Emacs. IMHO, [S-tab] is the 'correct' binding, > > since we press those actual keys. > > In most cases I've seen `backtab' is the "correct" binding because it's > the one that makes logical sense: the command is about doing something > in the opposite direction from what the `tab' key does. > The reason why S-tab is (also) used is that `backtab' is rarely > available, and as a convention we use S-tab as a poor man's backtab. Works for me. I wrote a short proposal to Emacs Dev to stretch the idea to a bigger audience than the bug report, which Adrian closed.