From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: M-Tab on w32 (and other window systems?)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:49:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5zmy64ph3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <014201c512f1$05630180$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:56:12 +0100")
"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
> The citation below is from nxml-mode.info. Is this something that should be
> adopted generally in Emacs?
>
> "The traditional GNU Emacs key combination for completion in a buffer
> is `M-<TAB>'. However, many window systems and window managers use this
> key combination themselves (typically for switching between windows)
> and do not pass it to applications. It's hard to find key combinations
> in GNU Emacs that are both easy to type and not taken by something
> else. `C-<RET>' (i.e. pressing the Enter or Return key, while the
> Ctrl key is held down) is available. It won't be available on a
> traditional terminal (because it is indistinguishable from Return), but
> it will work with a window system. Therefore we adopt the following
> solution by default: use `C-<RET>' when there's a window system and
> `M-<TAB>' when there's not. In the following, I will assume that a
> window system is being used and will therefore refer to `C-<RET>'."
C-RET is taken by modes already. I find that Esc and TAB keys are
close enough to make typing Esc TAB a simple enough operation. Even
though I am at the moment using Blackbox which does not intercept
M-TAB at all. But I am used to Esc TAB, and don't find it hard to
reach.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-15 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-14 23:56 M-Tab on w32 (and other window systems?) Lennart Borgman
2005-02-15 0:49 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-02-15 16:36 ` Drew Adams
2005-02-15 1:15 ` Miles Bader
2005-02-15 7:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-02-15 12:02 ` Johan Bockgård
2005-02-15 13:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-02-15 14:36 ` Reiner Steib
2005-02-15 15:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-02-16 9:32 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-16 13:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-02-15 12:28 ` James Cloos
2005-02-16 9:32 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-16 13:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-02-15 5:50 ` It's me FKtPp ;)
2005-02-16 9:32 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-16 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman
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