Re: Meta and Alt confusion in the manual

[Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>]

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:

> Sascha Wilde wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:
>>   
>>> In "(emacs) Symbol Completion" (31.8):
>>>
>>>       The character `M-<TAB>' ... (If your window manager defines
>>>    `M-<TAB>' to ...
>>> The window manager of course does not use M-<TAB>. It uses
>>> Alt-<TAB>.
>>>     
>> Things are even more complicated
>
> It isn't really complicated at all. We are talking about a conflict of
> window manager key assignments with Emacs' assignments, and we are
> talking about it in relation to how it affects Emacs. So it makes
> sense to talk about it in terms of what Emacs calls its
> keybindings. M-<TAB> is one key assignment we have singled out as
> commonly affected.

I agree!  So why do you want to differentiate between Meta and Alt
while the only relevant case is when they are the same key?  (And
Emacs calls the key Meta).

cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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