From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 12535@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, npostavs@gmail.com
Subject: bug#12535: 24.2.50; [PATCH] `edmacro-parse-keys' is incorrect for M-<TAB>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:41:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834kmwzovz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44cea5c7-a487-484c-9b6f-37b823c56f31@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:22:13 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, npostavs@gmail.com, 12535@debbugs.gnu.org,
> larsi@gnus.org
>
> That's the point - why are we interpreting <TAB> as a
> function key
Because that's what <foo> means.
> Are you sure there are no keyboards, or there won't be any,
> that have a function key named Esc or ESC, Ret or RET, Del
> or DEL, etc.?
Yes.
> My keyboard has a key labeled "Esc", but presumably it
> sends an ASCII ESC code. I understand that my keyboard
> key labeled doesn't send an ASCII TAB code, but Emacs
> calls it <tab>, not <TAB>.
>
> Something seems pretty arbitrary, here... Hysterical
> raisins or real logic?
It's how the GUI environments work.
> Why is TAB the odd man out?
It isn't.
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2020-10-14 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2014-02-10 4:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10 5:02 ` Drew Adams
2016-02-24 6:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 17:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-29 0:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-29 13:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 16:21 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-07 12:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-07 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-07 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-14 5:18 ` Drew Adams
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