Re: [O] S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions

[Thorsten Jolitz]

William Gardella <address@hidden> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi List,
>> I have a strange problem with org-global-cycle (S-TAB) in console
>> sessions. It mainly doesn't do anything, and C-h k shows "M-TAB is bound
>> to pcomplete", which it actually is, but I'm hitting S-TAB not M-TAB. 
>>
>> Otherwise, the "S" (shift) key work, I can type uppercase and all. Is
>> that a hardware (keyboard) problem, or did anybody experience similar
>> symptoms? 
>
> Thorsten,
>
> This sounds pretty weird, because in console sessions, due to the
> limitations of keyboard escape sequences, there is no way to type
> shift-tab (what emacs calls <backtab>).  The only way to do
> org-global-cycle (or something like it) on console with the default
> bindings is to use C-u TAB (startup visibility), C-u C-u TAB (CONTENTS),
> C-u C-u C-u TAB (everything).

But then everything is fine with my setup, I just did not know about
this limitation of the console (I only recently started working on the
console after discovering tmux).
Thanks for the help. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten