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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.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2020-10-14 17:22                                 ` bug#12535: 24.2.50; [PATCH] `edmacro-parse-keys' is incorrect for M-<TAB> Drew Adams
2020-10-14 17:41                                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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     [not found]                 ` <<<6b5e4737-edb3-4f0c-b4e7-252330d3436e@default>
     [not found]                   ` <<<8736ji3vgs.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]                     ` <<<9551e332-3baf-49d0-a6ff-4b2432457d5d@default>
     [not found]                       ` <<<83r2717si6.fsf@gnu.org>
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2020-10-14 16:13                             ` Drew Adams
2020-10-14 16:28                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16  4:07                                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-16  6:08                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
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     [not found]                 ` <<6b5e4737-edb3-4f0c-b4e7-252330d3436e@default>
     [not found]                   ` <<8736ji3vgs.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]                     ` <<9551e332-3baf-49d0-a6ff-4b2432457d5d@default>
     [not found]                       ` <<83r2717si6.fsf@gnu.org>
2012-09-28 21:37                         ` Drew Adams
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
     [not found]                         ` <de9af715-ee6a-463e-9d91-4ae753f49c00@default>
2020-10-14 14:59                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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