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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shift Tab should move backward in help buffers
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:16:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Dn7Wo-0000gT-Gb@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ubr5stae2.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (message from Jason Rumney on Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:30:13 +0100)

    So it may be more consistent for the defaults to be:

    <S-tab>   aliased to backtab
    <backtab> aliased to TAB

That seems plausible to me, in spirit, but I am not sure it is
possible.  function-key-map operates just once on the input event
stream, and then key-translation-map operates once.  It could be that
on some terminals S-tab is represented by an escape sequence which is
decoded by function-key-map, so there is no way to translate it twice
more.

Thus, clean as this is, we can't do it without creating some
new mechanism.  And I don't think it's worth creating a new
mechanism just for this.

    [I'm not even sure that maintaining a default aliasing of S-TAB -> TAB
    is very important -- this feature is handy for the alphabetic keys for
    several reasons, but I don't think it matters very much for keys like
    TAB.]

I agree with that.  It isn't crucial for either S-tab or backtab to
alias to TAB.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-26 13:51 Shift Tab should move backward in help buffers Lennart Borgman
2005-06-26 16:30 ` David Hunter
2005-06-26 16:55   ` David Ponce
2005-06-26 17:13     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-26 17:30       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-26 18:03         ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-26 18:57           ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-27  4:39             ` David Hunter
2005-06-27  6:16               ` Miles Bader
2005-06-28  1:03                 ` David Hunter
2005-06-28  1:28                   ` Miles Bader
2005-06-26 17:13     ` Lennart Borgman
2005-06-27  2:08       ` Miles Bader
2005-06-27  4:47     ` David Hunter
2005-06-26 22:42 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-27  9:30   ` Jason Rumney
2005-06-27 10:00     ` Miles Bader
2005-06-28  4:16     ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-06-28  5:15       ` Miles Bader
2005-06-28  6:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28  6:41           ` Miles Bader
2005-06-28  6:52             ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-28  8:53           ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-28 20:44             ` Miles Bader
2005-06-28 21:29         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-28 22:39           ` Miles Bader
2005-07-02  0:23             ` David Hunter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-27  6:24 David PONCE
2005-06-28  1:50 ` David Hunter
2005-06-28  8:42 LENNART BORGMAN
2005-06-28 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii

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