Hikaru Ichijyo <[email protected]> writes: > "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <[email protected]> writes: > >> You seem to be very confused. > > Probably... > >> The key binding for name completion is Meta Tab, M-TAB, >> not Alt Tab A-TAB. >> >> Perhaps your keyboard is ill-configured too. >> >> You should ask advice on how to map a meta- modifier key disctinct from >> the alt- modifier key (if you needed the later at all) > > I do know about the history of Emacs and Lisp...and space cadet > keyboards, and the Meta, Super, Hyper keys... > > But really... On a modern x86 Intel-based PC (which is what probably > over 90% of users running Emacs today are using), "Meta" is your Alt > key. We can all swear an oath to always call it Meta out of deference > to Richard Stallman and very expensive rackmount machines in the 70's > that were purpose-built to run Lisp, but...oh come on, it's your Alt > key, right? > > The real gist of my question was that one's window manager (kwin, > WindowMaker, etc.) will almost certainly just think of Alt as Alt, and > won't care for what historical reason Emacs wants Alt-Tab (um, Meta-Tab).
On modern keyboards, you have 10 modifier keys. You can map, for example: ! Control ! Shift Shift ! Multi_key Alt Meta Meta AltGr Hyper Control Another option would be closer to Space Cadet: ! Control ! Shift Shift ! Hyper super Meta Control Meta super Hyper -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
