From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indenting text bugs. Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:56:11 +0100 Message-ID: <4B8DA59B.3010408@gmail.com> References: <73384c13-4532-43a8-ac2d-6205161cf1a8@e1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <904A495662EE4DD9B0863B2BF147787B@us.oracle.com> <4B8D8D03.3050202@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267574158 15373 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2010 23:55:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:55:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 03 00:55:53 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmbwJ-0002Hs-Jz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:55:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmbwJ-0001wO-5X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmbvw-0001vZ-Cw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39758 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nmbvv-0001uO-8w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmbvu-0002Ll-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:60446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nmbvt-0002Le-Vs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:55:22 -0500 Original-Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so804161bwz.26 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:55:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VLZ3QF/RflrG1pOqUU9SU2q6Yd4fxQM/fk6FPE/Mo5k=; b=a3imxZYQlhXwDbRbhSiMwjQglCXs54p9OHCr6RZAdgy8sgUAGKLN6fgEzT63PJjAVB EM8SAZZcfJ/MnAqL5hFANsT2QBVg69OX45U2SeUSFIVW1v+iqG8a2RSKR8lCKFqXHnnw XMI/C2I4YZQ5NGFlhJ/xn5By9kXvAFopVBu4U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZX0F97ztrMFmM0TNbZ9fqQM9QEAhdANJDOI21J0ZgVw/geUOy5veBB29wHMOW0bL2h sjueRBd1GfnBOg0E0iGVdd+QzPjpDVLtFUWebCguD2bbLEzunBKF4BmGCST5fS02eRWL 5IjlEq3EOOpKwcYkqk9mFyGK+l4YT6ihhlziA= Original-Received: by 10.204.42.6 with SMTP id q6mr5116863bke.120.1267574120871; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:55:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (pb-d-128-141-230-139.cern.ch [128.141.230.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s17sm6072003bkd.6.2010.03.02.15.55.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:55:19 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100225 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:72323 Archived-At: On 03/03/10 12:44 AM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Suvayu Ali 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. Thanks Lennart, this subtlety had escaped me. :-p However I found the windows key is often not recognized properly when using emacs in no-window mode, specially in some terminal emulator. A remapping like that could be very inconvenient. Anyway, thanks to Drew I heard about the feature, on my own I never would have found it. (I found most of the "fancier" commands through typos ;) ) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.