From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17354 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hikaru Ichijyo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: alt-tab? really? you're joking... Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:38:48 -0600 Organization: UN Spacy Message-ID: <8xx1tmlh893.fsf@village.keycorner.org> References: <8xxfvb2tath.fsf@village.keycorner.org> <87lhkut5zv.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422024010 21754 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 14:40:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:40:10 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 15:40:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEfP6-0005bf-CX for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:40:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEfP5-0006vX-Ix for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:40:07 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LbvaeOcOapKM4BJQ+XvBBXB+IOw= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: b388a395.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=A6jaN?F_YH@; VG4 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17354 Archived-At: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" 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). -- He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. --Thomas Paine