Re: M-Tab on w32 (and other window systems?)

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"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.

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