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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"'Alan Mackenzie'" <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Bug with S-Tab in keymaps
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 13:40:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b501c8aef0$3ccb4e40$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzlr4mxqv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> > Should S-Tab be stored in a keymap as a symbol or a number? 
> > Or are both valid?  Which is the canonical form?  Where
> > should the conversion from the uncanonical form to the
> > canonical be done?
> 
> IIUC the canonical name of shift-tab in Emacs is `backtab'.
> The conversion from various other terminal-specific representations
> should be done in function-key-map.  If it's not done there, please
> report it as a bug.

Thanks, I didn't know that. Icicles was binding it by default to both `S-tab'
and `S-iso-lefttab', but I've now changed that to `backtab'.

I agree with Alan that the canonical form should be documented in the manual.
And just what is meant by "canonical form" should be explained there as well.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 14:11 Bug with S-Tab in keymaps Alan Mackenzie
2008-05-05 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 20:40   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-05-06  0:46     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-05 20:54   ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-05-05 20:46     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-05 21:00       ` Drew Adams
2008-05-06 21:26     ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-05-06 23:13       ` Miles Bader
2008-05-07  8:24         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-05-07 15:17           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-06 17:08 ` Drew Adams

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