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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, 12535@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org,
>       npostavs@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:07:50 -0400
> 
> If the key that says "Tab" is the function key <TAB>, and you produce
> ASCII TAB by typing C-i, that is not inherently different from the
> situation with ESC.  You can produce the ASCII ESC character by typing
> C-[, so we _could_ treat the key labeled "ESC" as <ESC>.  That would
> be uniform.

But AFAIU the keyboard input systems we use don't work like that, and
we simply follow them.