From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
To: novim <laszlomail@protonmail.com>, novim <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the point of binding C-m to RET, C-i to TAB etc on a GUI frame?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:12:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eej7h7ix.fsf@omarpolo.com> (raw)
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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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 8:37 What is the point of binding C-m to RET, C-i to TAB etc on a GUI frame? novim via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-30 11:12 ` Omar Polo [this message]
2020-12-30 12:23 ` novim
2020-12-30 17:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-30 18:10 ` Omar Polo
2020-12-30 12:25 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-31 0:37 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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