From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: alt-tab? really? you're joking...
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:34:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhkut5zv.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8xxfvb2tath.fsf@village.keycorner.org>
Hikaru Ichijyo <ichijyo@macross.sdf.jp> writes:
> I've pretty much settled into Gnus now, to the point where everything
> else feels silly, so I thought I'd start adding BBDB integration.
>
> It seems that the key binding for name completion is M-TAB. That's
> just...amazing. Really. The fact that Emacs and BBDB come from a
> UNIX-centric world doesn't begin to explain that, since MS-Windows is
> not the only platform where that's used for windows switching. It's
> also true in WindowMaker (which I use), KDE, Gnome, and if I remember
> correctly, CDE (which kills any idea that maybe they were only thinking
> of commercial UNIX).
>
> And the Info docs say that you can't rebind it.
>
> I did find an example online of how you might rebind the key for
> Wanderlust, but the example seemed fairly specific to Wanderlust.
>
> What's the typical way Gnus users get around this these days? Also, I
> should note that I'm running BBDB 2.35 and not the new 3.x rewrite,
> since the web site warns loudly that it's alpha alpha alpha! (Should I
> be running 3.x anyway?)
>
> Really...even in the 1990's, in the days of HPUX/CDE workstations and
> Motif X11 toolkits...Alt-Tab? Really? When was that ever a good idea
> for an application key binding?
You seem to be very confused.
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)
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2015-01-23 3:50 Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-23 4:17 ` Charles Philip Chan
2015-01-23 5:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2015-01-23 14:38 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-23 14:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-01-23 22:20 ` Charles Philip Chan
2015-01-23 10:26 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.18427.1422008816.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-23 14:47 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-26 8:12 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.18637.1422259999.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-26 21:18 ` incal
2015-01-26 21:34 ` incal
2015-01-27 9:51 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.18727.1422352295.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-27 20:24 ` more keys in a Linux VT (was: alt-tab? really? you're joking...) Emanuel Berg
2015-01-24 0:12 ` alt-tab? really? you're joking incal
2015-01-24 4:40 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-24 10:34 ` incal
2015-01-24 12:00 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <mailman.18502.1422100844.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-24 23:40 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-25 2:07 ` Winston
2015-01-25 2:55 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-25 8:38 ` Glyn Millington
2015-01-25 8:40 ` Glyn Millington
2015-01-25 8:59 ` Immediate expiration Damien Wyart
2015-01-25 20:32 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-25 12:41 ` alt-tab? really? you're joking incal
2015-01-25 13:00 ` new subject (was: alt-tab? really? you're joking...) Peter Münster
[not found] ` <mailman.18547.1422190826.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-25 13:37 ` incal
2015-01-25 13:42 ` incal
2015-01-25 19:58 ` new subject Peter Münster
2015-01-25 20:36 ` Clemens Schüller
[not found] ` <mailman.18582.1422218214.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-25 20:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-01-26 8:04 ` Peter Münster
[not found] ` <mailman.18636.1422259506.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-26 19:35 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.18578.1422215928.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-25 20:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-01-25 22:19 ` alt-tab? really? you're joking Adam Sjøgren
2015-01-26 8:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-26 10:12 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] ` <mailman.18642.1422267150.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-01-26 19:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-01-27 0:15 ` Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-27 1:21 ` spam (was: alt-tab? really? you're joking...) incal
2015-01-27 2:51 ` spam Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-01-27 3:11 ` spam incal
2015-01-25 12:32 ` alt-tab? really? you're joking incal
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