From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion? 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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 9c8454632351942a2933bbcdffc8f1e9; Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:22:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87zgk4dpyz.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:38:28 +0200") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.20118 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:230960 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > I have somehow never considered that `completion-at-point' was supposed > to be on `M-TAB', because the Emacs help system only mentions it as > `C-M-i'... but `C-i' is, of course, `TAB', and with an added Meta, > that's `M-TAB' alright. =F0=9F=99=83 > > Anyway, I agree that `M-TAB' is a bad choice for a key binding this > days, since many of the window systems out there steal the key, and > therefore an important thing like completion doesn't work logically out > of the box for many people. > > `C-TAB' is free, of course, but doesn't work on terminals, and I guess > the same is the case with all other modifier+TAB combinations. So I > don't know what we could do -- we could bind `C-TAB' for the GUI people, > for instance? FWIW, I'm happy with typing C-M-i. I have no opinion about also binding C-, as long as M- doesn't go away.