Re: Gnus v5.6.24 is released

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

> >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
>  Hrvoje> In XEmacs, [(meta tab)] binding will do the right thing on TTY's.
> 
> Out of interest, and not able to experiment, will "\M-\t" not DTRT in
> XEamcs?

Here is what happens in XEmacs:

(define-key MAP "\M-\t" 'foo)
  ; binds M-C-i and M-tab to `foo'

(define-key MAP [(meta tab)] 'foo)
  ; binds M-tab (but not M-C-i!) to `foo'

(define-key MAP '(meta tab) 'foo)
  ; shorthand for previous

(define-key MAP [(meta control i)] 'foo)
  ; bind M-C-i (but not M-tab!) to `foo'

So, if you use the "old" string notation, you get the old semantics
(C-i and TAB being the same).  If you use the "new" vector notation,
you get new semantics (difference between C-i and TAB).  This is a
feature.

Under TTY's, however, C-i is treated exactly the same as TAB, so all
of the above examples bind ?\M-C-i or `ESC C-i' to `foo'.


Look at the XEmacs docs of `define-key' for more explanation of this
(I can mail the docs to you if you don't have XEmacs handy.)

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