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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Indenting text bugs.
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:44:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a51003021544y6d35f552gfc6f77684f1a27e2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8D8D03.3050202@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Normally, `M-TAB' (hence `ESC TAB') will complete text (e.g. a function
>> name) at
>> point. It is bound by default to `complete-symbol',
>> `lisp-complete-symbol',
>> `completion-at-point', or something similar, depending on the current mode
>> and
>> your Emacs version.
>>
>
> Isn't that a very inconvenient default? Almost every window manager across
> platforms intercept that to switch windows...


Yes, some of us think that it is. Note hoever that it is "Meta-Tab",
not "Alt-Tab".

Personally I use the left window key (instead of Alt) as Emacs' Meta.
On ms windows that requires the patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32
however.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-02 10:07 Indenting text bugs Defacta
2010-03-02 16:05 ` Andrea Crotti
     [not found] ` <mailman.2167.1267546021.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-03-02 18:14   ` Defacta
2010-03-02 18:45     ` Drew Adams
2010-03-02 22:11       ` Suvayu Ali
2010-03-02 23:44         ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-03-02 23:56           ` Suvayu Ali
2010-03-03  0:19           ` Drew Adams
2010-03-03  0:26             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-03-03  1:15               ` Drew Adams
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2189.1267567845.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <jwvd3zlfk7j.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>
2010-03-04 10:27           ` Defacta
2010-03-02 22:45     ` Andrea Crotti

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