Vegard Øye <[email protected]> writes: > On 2010-07-02 17:57, Štěpán Němec wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 04:55:04PM +0200, Vegard Øye wrote: >> >>> > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Named-ASCII-Chars.html >> >> ... with the the caveat that in the terminal (emacs -nw) there is no >> such distinction (as the section you quote also mentions). > > I tested it and it still worked, so I guess Windows XP doesn't have an > "ordinary ASCII terminal". The section also states that "most modern > terminals" recognize the distinction. > > Štěpán, do you have access to an ASCII terminal to experiment with? > Does the order of binding [tab] and C-i matter?
Well, IMHO "ASCII terminal" might be a little bit of a misnomer nowadays (most terminals seem to handle non-ascii just fine), but it's a fact well known and recognized that in a terminal TAB key sends a TAB character. So when I run Emacs in a terminal (i.e. emacs -nw), binding [tab] has no effect whatsoever, and binding C-i affects both the TAB key and the C-i combo. Are you saying that when you do C-h c C-i and C-h c <tab> in emacs -nw under Windows, you get different results? How does emacs -nw on Windows even look like? You're launching it inside cmd.com? I'm not sure what the "most modern terminals" mentioned in the text mean. I suspect "terminal" is just a synonym for "computer" there. If there's a way to somehow re-program a text terminal to send something different for <tab> and C-i, then I'm yet to hear about it (it might be possible, I'm no expert on terminals), but you certainly can't rely upon such behaviour. > (Sorry about the separate posts.) I see nothing wrong 'bout that. Štěpán _______________________________________________ implementations-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list
