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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>
Cc: 8492@debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Subject: bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:21:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin9-+FHnZKZkHRuoQg3NU08vzVzJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Hn5aoXpcjxG8b4HTUj-K+gB8AdQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Andrew W. Nosenko
<andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 20:26, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
>> Emacs binds various completion functions to M-Tab, which is already used
>> by many window managers, including Compiz and Metacity, i.e. the WMs one
>> is likely to use on a modern GNU system, for switching between open
>> windows.
>
> Unable to say anything about Compiz, but Metacity binds nothing to
> M-Tab (moreover, it binds nothing to Meta-combinations at all).  For
> switching between windows it uses Alt-Tab.
>
> Another problem is that in many Linux distros Meta and Alt bound the
> same physical key by default.  But they may be easy splited using
> keyboard preferences.  I use Windows key for Meta and Alt key for Alt,
> for example.

On w32 moving Emacs META from Alt to the Windows key is not that
simple. It requires my patch for this to be reliable (avaliable in the
EmacsW32 repository).





  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-19 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-13 17:26 bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion? Reuben Thomas
2011-04-15 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-15 22:53   ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-15 23:21     ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-19 12:46       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-19 13:01         ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-19 13:34           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-19 18:53             ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-24 18:08   ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-24 19:43     ` Drew Adams
2011-04-24 19:55     ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-19 10:52 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2011-04-19 12:21   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-04-20 11:54   ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 13:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 13:22       ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 14:16         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 14:49           ` Sven Joachim
2011-04-20 16:41           ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-20 17:11             ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 18:28               ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-20 22:02                 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21  0:13               ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-21  6:02                 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 17:17             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 22:03               ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21  6:43                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-20 21:59           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 14:07       ` Deniz Dogan
2011-04-20 15:49       ` Drew Adams
2011-04-20 18:28         ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 22:48           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-20 22:49             ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-20 21:56       ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-20 22:49         ` Drew Adams
2011-04-20 22:51           ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 12:42           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 14:13             ` Drew Adams
2011-04-21 18:49               ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 19:34                 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 19:54                   ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 20:14                     ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-21 20:55                       ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-21 21:08                         ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-22 13:47                           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 17:33                             ` Reuben Thomas
2011-04-22 18:12                               ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 21:01                     ` Sean Sieger
2011-04-22 21:09                       ` Lennart Borgman
2011-04-22 20:44                 ` Sean Sieger
2021-10-21 19:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-21 19:45   ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-21 20:11     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-22  6:30   ` Phil Sainty
2021-10-22  8:12     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-04-29 12:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 13:22   ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-29 13:25   ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-29 13:33     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 15:14   ` Drew Adams

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