From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift Tab should move backward in help buffers Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:29:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <42BEB2F6.9010409@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119994114 21747 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2005 21:28:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 23:28:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnNc9-0000Dy-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnNk4-00071V-6J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnNht-0006PL-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnNhn-0006Jx-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnNhl-0006If-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:33:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnNk1-00014b-8s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:35:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DnNdz-0008KP-KH; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:29:23 -0400 Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:15:08 +0900) 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:39831 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39831 The code which sets up the escape mappings for those terminals could set up an explicit direct mapping for "escape-sequence -> backtab" (bypassing the S-tab step) couldn't they? I think so. In effect, this would mean deciding that Emacs should always deal with backtab, never with S-tab. (We would want function-key-map to map S-tab into backtab also, to ensure that this is true even on systems that produce S-tab directly.) That could be part of the solution to this problem. Stefan wrote: Except that it would not correctly handle the case where the user has bound S-tab to something. That is true, but we'd just tell the users that nowadays they should bind backtab because Emacs no longer uses S-tab.