From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shift Tab should move backward in help buffers Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:30:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <42BEB2F6.9010409@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119865672 28422 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 09:47:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:47:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 11:47:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmqD9-0006iE-Uh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:47:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmqKl-00024N-QS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmq0B-0005fE-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmq0A-0005eZ-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:34:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmpyE-0004lr-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dmq1W-0002dv-MM; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5R9V6ch029969; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:31:06 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8663DDE24; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:31:32 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:42:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:39641 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39641 "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > Tab move to next link in the help buffer. Shift-Tab does the same. > However it would be more practical and consistent with usual behaviour > if Shift-Tab moved backwards. > > Would you like to send a patch? The current defaults are: aliased to TAB unbound As far as I can tell, and are generated for the same keys on different terminals (or do some terminals have a separate backtab key?). So it may be more consistent for the defaults to be: aliased to backtab aliased to TAB Then if a mode like help-mode defines an alternate binding for backtab, S-tab will automatically follow. We'd have to check the codebase for S-tab bindings and change them to bind backtab instead to maintain consistency.