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Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?
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Paul Pogonyshev |
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Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer? |
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Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:55:27 +0200 |
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Drew Adams wrote:
> BTW, info.el dropped M-TAB in favor of S-TAB. Unfortunately, this
> makes `Info-prev-reference' inaccessible on ttys where S-TAB is not
> available. I think info.el, help.el and wid-edit.el should bind both
> S-TAB and M-TAB to the same commands: S-TAB for window environments,
> and M-TAB for ttys. The current binding of M-TAB (`complete-symbol')
> makes no sense in these modes anyway.
>
> Let's leave S-TAB alone here too. It should be M-TAB (or ESC-TAB, for those
> of us who don't have M-TAB).
If I remember correctly, it was me who proposed this change. S-TAB is
consistent with desktop environment where Shift is commonly used as a
`reversal' modifier. I.e. TAB moves forward, S-TAB moves backward.
I'm not proposing to unify Emacs shortcuts with `standard' ones, like
Ctrl+F for search, since Emacs is, eh..., Emacs :) But in some cases
this is useful and S-TAB is one of them. S-TAB is normally unused in
Emacs anyway and, as has been mentioned, there couldn't be any conflicts
since S-TAB cannot be typed on a tty.
Of course, there is nothing wrong in keeping M-TAB in Info mode with
the same functionality, but, please, let's not reverse the S-TAB
addition.
Paul
- TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Lennart Borgman, 2005/12/05
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/05
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Chong Yidong, 2005/12/05
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/05
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Lennart Borgman, 2005/12/06
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/06
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/06
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/07
- RE: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Drew Adams, 2005/12/07
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?,
Paul Pogonyshev <=
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/07
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/08
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/07
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Lennart Borgman, 2005/12/07
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/07
- Re: TAB in Eval: prompt in minibuffer?, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/08