From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What's happened to M-<tab> `completion-at-point'?
Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 11:03:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YnZSAW/ACqprK0OW@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1nn7Eq-0001uU-0W@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hello, Richard.
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 19:19:56 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> > > The change from ncurses-6.2 to ncurses-6.3 broke the Linux console
> > > keyboard, in that terminfo now directs ESC TAB to be translated to
> > > backtab.
> Would a few people please volunteer to talk with the ncurses
> developers about what problem they wanted to fix? Given that this fix
> ha a problem, it would be good to look for another one. Have people
> identified those who were involved?
It seems that the Linux keyboard layout is very old, and too few
keycodes were envisaged for existing key combinations. This led to
Meta_Tab being used sometimes for <alt><tab> and sometimes (wrongly in
my view) for <shift><tab>.
Thomas Dickey has tracked down a bug "fix" in SuSE GNU/Linux from (I
think it was) 2007 where someone recorded that the change was made to
assigning <shift><tab> to Meta_Tab, but without noting down any reasons.
TD also justified the change in ncurses-6.3 by saying that the
<shift><tab> key assignment had come to prevail in the main GNU/Linux
distributions, and this change merely reflects current practice.
> The discussion should also include Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>,
> the ncurses maintainer.
Thomas Dickey is already in the conversation, having answered a post to
bug-ncurses@gnu.org with Subject: Emacs difficulties in linux console
with ncurses-6.3 caused by kcbt=\E^I. That thread was cross-posted to
emacs-devel.
The conversation has not yet been resolved.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-07 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-03 21:06 What's happened to M-<tab> `completion-at-point'? Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 16:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 18:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 19:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 19:47 ` Yuri Khan
2022-05-04 20:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-04 20:31 ` Yuri Khan
2022-05-04 20:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-05-04 21:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-05 5:03 ` tomas
2022-05-05 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-05 16:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-05 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-06 23:19 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-07 11:03 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-05-08 23:35 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-04 20:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-05-04 19:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-05-04 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-04 19:45 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-05-04 19:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-05-04 6:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-04 16:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
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