Re: Two Emacs challenges

[Lennart Borgman]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Leon wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I found two useful key bindings but they seems not obvious to achieve.
> >
> > (1) Ctrl+Tab & Alt+Tab
> >
> > Since most window managers have used Alt+Tab for switching windows,
> > Alt+Tab key bindings is useless in Emacs running in X. Is there
> > something I can set in ~/.emacs so that Alt+Tab will be remapped to
> > Ctrl+Tab? For example, if AUCTeX has bound <M-tab> to
> > TeX-complete-symbol, the function should be *automatically* bound to
> > <C-tab> when I enter LaTeX-mode.
> >   
> From the manual to the next version of Emacs (22):
>
>   The character `M-<TAB>' runs a command to complete the partial
> symbol before point against the set of meaningful symbol names.  This
> command inserts at point any additional characters that it can
> determine from the partial name.  (If your window manager defines
> `M-<TAB>' to switch windows, you can type `<ESC> <TAB>' or `C-M-i'.)
Forgot to say that this is actually not quite correct. The window 
manager knows nothing about M (Meta) which is Emacs specific. The window 
manager uses Alt-Tab. However Emacs might have bound Meta to Alt.

So another option might be to move Meta to some other key that you can 
use conveniently. (I myself have Meta on the windows keys.)