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Re: Meta and Alt confusion in the manual
From: |
Sascha Wilde |
Subject: |
Re: Meta and Alt confusion in the manual |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:38:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sascha Wilde wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> In "(emacs) Symbol Completion" (31.8):
>>>
>>> The character `M-<TAB>' ... (If your window manager defines
>>> `M-<TAB>' to ...
>>> The window manager of course does not use M-<TAB>. It uses
>>> Alt-<TAB>.
>>>
>> Things are even more complicated
>
> It isn't really complicated at all. We are talking about a conflict of
> window manager key assignments with Emacs' assignments, and we are
> talking about it in relation to how it affects Emacs. So it makes
> sense to talk about it in terms of what Emacs calls its
> keybindings. M-<TAB> is one key assignment we have singled out as
> commonly affected.
I agree! So why do you want to differentiate between Meta and Alt
while the only relevant case is when they are the same key? (And
Emacs calls the key Meta).
cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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