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bug#6616: S-TAB is mismapped in the *Help* buffer


From: Paul Griepentrog
Subject: bug#6616: S-TAB is mismapped in the *Help* buffer
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:30:26 -0700
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 On 8/1/10 5:03 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I say, pick a solution and make it consistent across the modes
> shipped with Emacs.  IMHO, [S-tab] is the 'correct' binding,
> since we press those actual keys.

 In most cases I've seen `backtab' is the "correct" binding because it's
 the one that makes logical sense: the command is about doing something
 in the opposite direction from what the `tab' key does.
 The reason why S-tab is (also) used is that `backtab' is rarely
 available, and as a convention we use S-tab as a poor man's backtab.

Works for me.  I wrote a short proposal to Emacs Dev to stretch the
idea to a bigger audience than the bug report, which Adrian closed.







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