bug#12535: 24.2.50; [PATCH] `edmacro-parse-keys' is incorrect for M-<TAB>

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> (kbd "M-<TAB>") incorrectly returns [M-TAB].  IMHO, it should return
> [134217737], the same thing that (kbd "M-TAB") returns.
>
> IOW, for consistency, TAB should be treated specially here, in the
> same way that NUL, RET, LFD, ESC, SPC, and DEL are treated specially.

Makes sense, I guess, but I'm not familiar with the `kbd' use cases.

[...]

> !        "\\<\\(NUL\\|RET\\|LFD\\|ESC\\|SPC\\|DEL\\)$"
>          word))))
>           (setq key (list (intern word))))
>          ((or (equal word "REM") (string-match "^;;" word))
> --- 708,714 ----
>         (substring word (match-beginning 3)
>             (match-end 3))))
>           (not (string-match
> !        "\\<\\(NUL\\|RET\\|LFD\\|ESC\\|SPC\\|DEL\\TAB\\)$"

There's probably a missing | in the patch...

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