From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: binding a key for keyword completion in all modes Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:01:45 +0000 Organization: Orbital Laser Death Rays R Us Message-ID: References: <8b351a00-6fa4-45f3-b240-eb7d53ed2d4c@e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235619643 21953 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2009 03:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 26 04:41:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LcX8J-0002eW-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:41:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcX6y-0006fG-Iv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: NgYG8S8alI2dGabABusNdQ.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:01:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EGjGONCHXY46fCHdyes1CxHLSkI= User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167088 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62384 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > (i don't want to have emacs override that) > > What i have always been doing is pressing Esc then Tab, but that is > really annoying, especially if you use this often. > > How do you solve this? > On my own systems I use super-tab for app switching* and therefore let emacs have alt-tab, but on occasion it helps to know that C-M-i typically works the same in emacs - C-i being conventionally a tab character of course, but OS / window manager level stuff tends not to grab it like the tab key. * I tend to place "system-wide" window manager shortcuts consistently on super- rather than the horrible defaults that can get in the way of emacs use.