Re: M-Tab on w32 (and other window systems?)

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Feb 15 2005, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Thanks, that is very useful! However there was another point in my original
> message: Info only mention Alt-Tab. 

Could you be more specific?  Most Emacs info nodes use `M-<TAB>' [1]
and the tutorial explains that you can use ESC instead of M- (Meta):

,----[ C-h t ]
|  M-<chr>  means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>.
|         If there is no META, EDIT or ALT key, instead press and release the
|         ESC key and then type <chr>.  We write <ESC> for the ESC key.
`----

> To me this seems ignorant since on w32 at least Alt-Tab can not be
> used at all. I would appreciate if this was changed.

I don't think this problem is specific to windows.  Probably there are
a lot of Window managers for X11 that bind M-TAB by default.

Bye, Reiner.

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