From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:45:21 +0100 Message-ID: <47D9A071.7000905@gmail.com> References: <002d01c8854f$8a212e00$c2b22382@us.oracle.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: ger.gmane.org 1205444753 6389 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 21:45:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs- devel To: paul r Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 22:46:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZvFj-0002kN-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:46:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZvFA-0000Bo-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZvF5-0000Af-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZvF3-00009N-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZvF2-00009D-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZvF2-0004yV-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:61587 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JZvEz-0001oZ-6F; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:45:34 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080313-0, 2008-03-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JZvEz-0001oZ-6F. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1JZvEz-0001oZ-6F 229c96a2a3ac7009a8bba92e7b3050f9 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92434 Archived-At: paul r wrote: >> FWIW, I prefer that it reflect the Emacs-Lisp bindings. >> >> If M-TAB (or ESC TAB) is good enough for emacs-lisp-mode, it's good enough >> for `M-:' too. >> > fair enought, I think M-Tab can be kept as an alternative keystroke. > But the point that nowaday, most of windows manager intercept M-Tab > for switching windows should maybe push us to provide alternative to > M-TAB where possible and intuitive. To be more precise they intercept Alt-Tab and Emacs META is often bound to Alt.