From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Please add S-tab to button-buffer-map Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:19:41 -0700 Message-ID: <002001c88b0a$c9606250$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <47E16D18.2010209@gmail.com> <47E190B2.6000006@gnu.org><000601c88a0f$5a7ca5c0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <008001c88acb$024b42a0$c2b22382@us.oracle.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 1206073312 17198 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2008 04:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Eli Zaretskii' , jasonr@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 05:22:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JcYlj-0003xk-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:22:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcYl9-0008Nn-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcYl5-0008NH-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcYl4-0008N4-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcYl4-0008N1-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcYkw-00045E-V0; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m2L4LNFQ028716; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:21:23 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m2L3t2GF014796; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:21:22 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3620980151206073182; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:19:42 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.80.154) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:19:41 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AciK8+yG488yG4knQwyWo0D6afqgfAAFnCOA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:93094 Archived-At: > > I have no objection to S-TAB going to the previous field > > whenever TAB goes to the next field. Other than such a > > context, it seems unnatural. > > S-TAB is its own key. It is only remapped to backtab via > function-key-map, i.e. it is only treated as backtab in case > there's no binding for S-TAB. > Furthermore backtab is not bound by default anyway. > So your fears are simply unfounded. I understood that this is about a fallback binding in case there is none. IIUC, today there is already such a fallback binding: S-tab is treated like tab. This change would treat it like backtab instead. The current fallback (S-tab -> tab) seems more natural to me - that's all I was saying. No fears were expressed or implied.