From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:23:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipgojk3v.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k414p72j.fsf@gmail.com
William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi List,
>> I have a strange problem with org-global-cycle (S-TAB) in console
>> sessions. It mainly doesn't do anything, and C-h k shows "M-TAB is bound
>> to pcomplete", which it actually is, but I'm hitting S-TAB not M-TAB.
>>
>> Otherwise, the "S" (shift) key work, I can type uppercase and all. Is
>> that a hardware (keyboard) problem, or did anybody experience similar
>> symptoms?
>
> Thorsten,
>
> This sounds pretty weird, because in console sessions, due to the
> limitations of keyboard escape sequences, there is no way to type
> shift-tab (what emacs calls <backtab>). The only way to do
> org-global-cycle (or something like it) on console with the default
> bindings is to use C-u TAB (startup visibility), C-u C-u TAB (CONTENTS),
> C-u C-u C-u TAB (everything).
But then everything is fine with my setup, I just did not know about
this limitation of the console (I only recently started working on the
console after discovering tmux).
Thanks for the help.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 7:59 S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions Thorsten Jolitz
2012-04-25 8:08 ` William Gardella
2012-04-25 8:23 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2012-04-25 14:29 ` William Gardella
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