From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What's happened to M-<tab> `completion-at-point'?
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 02:47:41 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8Wdj0Z+N-tSPR2-kZmVUuGMHB-JnG76ns9NG_vG6FVt=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YnLPlPFDfEWBwvRH@ACM>
On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 02:10, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> I don't understand it either, yet. To be sure that terminfo is the
> problem, I'll have to do something like reinstalling the old version of
> ncurses, and seeing the problem is no longer there.
>
> But in src/term.c L1258 appears:
>
> {"kB", "backtab"}, /* terminfo */
>
> The "kB" is a terminfo code for back-tab, and the "backtab" might
> somehow be the source for the "[backtab] is undefined" error message.
You might be on to something.
$ infocmp linux
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /lib/terminfo/l/linux
linux|Linux console,
am, bce, ccc, eo, mir, msgr, xenl, xon,
…
kb2=\E[G, kbs=^?, kcbt=\E^I, kcub1=\E[D, kcud1=\E[B,
…
In other words, the terminfo database declares a capability named
‘kcbt’ with the value ESC TAB. And ‘man terminfo’ says ‘kcbt’ is the
backtab key.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-04 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-03 21:06 What's happened to M-<tab> `completion-at-point'? Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 16:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 18:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 19:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 19:47 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2022-05-04 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-04 20:31 ` Yuri Khan
2022-05-04 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-04 21:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-05 5:03 ` tomas
2022-05-05 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-05 16:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-05 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 23:19 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-07 11:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-08 23:35 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-04 20:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 19:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-05-04 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 19:45 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-05-04 19:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-05-04 6:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04 16:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
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