Re: What is the point of binding C-m to RET, C-i to TAB etc on a GUI frame?

[Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>]

novim via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> AFAIK, it is needed only in terminals, but it has not purpose on GUI. I don't think there are many people who, for example, press C-m instead of RET.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to define these in input-decode-map only if emacs runs in a terminal and on GUI letting the user freely rebind them?

I don't think I ever used C-m, but I do sometime use C-i instead of
TAB.  Many window manager and desktop environment binds alt-tab, the same
default binding for completion-at-point.  I suppose there are people who
use M-C-i instead of "alt-tab" at least for that.

(Also, even if you have tab-always-indent set to 'complete, you may
still need M-C-i for instance in yasnippet, given how it hijacks TAB)

my two cents

P.S.: it would be cool to have a setting to explicitly say "I don't care
about tty-compatible keybindings".  But, OTOH, I've just discovered
input-decode-map thanks to this thread so I may play with it.