From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8492: 23.3; Time to use a different binding for completion? Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:21:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zknuhxl4.fsf@sc3d.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303216667 13808 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2011 12:37:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:37:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8492@debbugs.gnu.org, Reuben Thomas To: "Andrew W. 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Nosenko wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 20:26, Reuben Thomas 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). =C2=A0For > 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. =C2=A0But they may be easy splited using > keyboard preferences. =C2=A0I use Windows key for Meta and Alt key for Al= t, > 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).