From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift Tab should move backward in help buffers Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:52:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87slz32czi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <42BEB2F6.9010409@student.lu.se> <87wtofvvyz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119942055 5755 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 07:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney , rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 09:00:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnA56-0003s9-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:00:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnACu-0002R1-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnA5f-0000AR-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:01:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnA5b-00008y-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnA5W-00089r-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.110] (helo=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnA27-0006RX-EC; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.35.153]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050628065251.CZVL2981.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 360C8D732C; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:52:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:41:31 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:39761 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39761 >> The answer is (as has been mentioned on this list a while back) that >> terminal-escape-sequences should not be handled with function-key-map but >> with a new map placed before function-key-map (and applied unconditionally, >> like key-translation-map but unlike function-key-map). > Does the other thread talk about other bugs that would be fixed? Yes, tho I can't offhand remember which ones. It may have to do with the C-x 8 thingy, or maybe with terminal coding systems that use ESC sequences, but I really can't remember. > Richard didn't seem to like the idea of adding a new feature for this, > but it _sounds_ pretty simple (to add an unconditional translation > layer), and if it fixes other bugs too... well... I dunno. I'd rather postpone all this to post-22.1. I've been impatiently waiting for the next major Emacs release for several years now and we have more than plenty new features already. Stefan