Re: Completion with M-Tab for custom type 'directory

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

David Kastrup wrote:

>>>>3) Alt-Tab is useless as a default since it is not available in window
>>>>  type environments. Esc-Tab is in this case available, but is not
>>>>  always the case. (This message has been repeated many times now and
>>>>  I really long for a resulotion of this.)
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>>>In what circumstances is Esc-TAB not available?
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>>The case I think of is when viper-mode is in vi state. I am using
>>viper all the time.
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>Then you really should read
>
>(info "(viper) Vi State")
>
>This is not as much an Emacs problem as it is a viper problem, and
>viper has explicitly documented and addressed this problem.
>
Thanks, I have read it now:

`C-\'
     Viper uses <ESC> as a switch between Insert and Vi states.  Emacs
     uses <ESC> for Meta.  The Meta key is very important in Emacs
     since many functions are accessible only via that key as `M-x
     function-name'.  Therefore, we need to simulate it somehow.  In
     Viper's Vi, Insert, and Replace states, the meta key is set to be
     `C-\'.  Thus, to get `M-x', you should type `C-\ x' (if the
     keyboard has no Meta key, which is rare these days).  This works
     both in the Vi command state and in the Insert and Replace states.
     In Vi command state, you can also use `\ <ESC>' as the meta key.

     Note: Emacs binds `C-\' to a function that offers to change the
     keyboard input method in the multilingual environment.  Viper
     overrides this binding.  However, it is still possible to switch
     the input method by typing `\ C-\' in the Vi command state and
     `C-z \ C-\' in the Insert state.  Or you can use the MULE menu in
     the menubar.

On a swedish keyboard I can not use C-\ at all. In vi state I can not 
use ESC. The window manager prevents me from using Alt-Tab. So what is 
left for completion? And note that I would pretty much want completion 
to be very easy to reach!

Suppose I do not know anything about Emacs. What would you expect me to 
think in a w32 environment with a swedish (or other national) keyboard?