From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: M-Tab on w32 (and other window systems?) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:56:12 +0100 Message-ID: <014201c512f1$05630180$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108426557 25598 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2005 00:15:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 01:15:57 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0qNX-0001JW-RD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:15:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0qdB-0001uq-5v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:31:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0qTV-0004xZ-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:21:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0qTR-0004vA-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0qTP-0004hE-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:21:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.109] (helo=av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0q6H-0008FG-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: by av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 7DE4737E47; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:57:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av7-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E3D37E43 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:57:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t5o58p189.telia.com [195.67.196.189]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8940337E47 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:57:55 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Emacs Devel" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33439 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33439 The citation below is from nxml-mode.info. Is this something that should be adopted generally in Emacs? "The traditional GNU Emacs key combination for completion in a buffer is `M-'. However, many window systems and window managers use this key combination themselves (typically for switching between windows) and do not pass it to applications. It's hard to find key combinations in GNU Emacs that are both easy to type and not taken by something else. `C-' (i.e. pressing the Enter or Return key, while the Ctrl key is held down) is available. It won't be available on a traditional terminal (because it is indistinguishable from Return), but it will work with a window system. Therefore we adopt the following solution by default: use `C-' when there's a window system and `M-' when there's not. In the following, I will assume that a window system is being used and will therefore refer to `C-'."