Re: Usability suggestion : completion for M-:

[Andreas Schwab]

"paul r" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Since under ttys, TAB and C-i are usually indistinguishable, I'd rather
>>  not being them to different commands, since that would only work
>>  on GUIs.
>
> That what I was wondering. That makes C-i unavailable.

It is not unavailable, it is just indistinguishable from TAB.  You can
type C-i and get the expected result.

> This is in a way similar to the "unavailability" of M-Tab in many
> environments.

This is quite different.  In these enviroments Emacs does not see the
key at all.

> FWIW, I notice C-Tab is delivered as :
>  - C-Tab under X
>  - Tab under xterm and similar
>  - Tab under TTY

This is even another case.  Here the modifier is ignored, but the base
key is still received.

Andreas.

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