From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: 7779@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7779: Miserable widget completion for type 'directory on w32
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 00:31:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANbX364+EnMkstpD+vh2yssfKW66KL-ku6KgLrpUPh8YGskSwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SRJOys28uJaZ6MAa_-gYe6vCgwuT_9AFjgP-NZnifWv-A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 20:52, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 20:48, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> It is? Can you show a test case?
>>>
>>>> - widget-complete is bound to M-TAB. This is by default bound to
>>>> Alt-Tab which is not available to applications on w32.
>>>
>>> But you can use <ESC><TAB>, like you yourself discuss in bug#8256.
>>
>> Didn't I say that you can't do that? If you use some vi emulation like Viper.
>
> Could you answer both questions, not only the second one?
>
> As for that, if M-TAB cannot be reliably used on Windows, and ESC-TAB
> cannot be used inside Viper, please propose an alternate binding for
> using inside Viper.
That might be a good suggestion, but I am not sure.
As everyone here no vi has two main states: input and command. Beside
that there are the normal Emacs key sequences states during input of
key sequences. (The clash between these states is why ESC-TAB can not
be used.)
For the "command" state the g key is unused. Using it directly would
be a waste, but a sequence beginning with g might be good.
But I am not very sure of the value of it since using it would require
switching to "command" state first. And I think you are most likely to
be in "input" mode if you want to do completion.
ESC is the only "control char" that I am using of those vi recognize
as its own. (The other are less important.)
I suggest finding a key sequence in Emacs that does not use M (Alt).
TAB by itself seems to be the favorite on EmacsWiki. Maybe use two
fast TABs for it by default. And have C-RET as backup?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-03 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-03 21:00 bug#7779: Miserable widget completion for type 'directory on w32 Lennart Borgman
2011-07-03 18:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-03 18:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-03 18:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-03 22:31 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-07-03 22:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-03 22:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-03 23:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-03 23:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-03 23:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-04 1:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-04 2:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-08-28 15:47 ` Mauro Aranda
2019-09-06 21:16 ` Noam Postavsky
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