Re: Shift Tab should move backward in help buffers

[Miles Bader]

On 6/29/05, Richard M. Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>     The code which sets up the escape mappings for those terminals could
>     set up an explicit direct mapping for "escape-sequence -> backtab"
>     (bypassing the S-tab step) couldn't they?
> 
> I think so.  In effect, this would mean deciding that Emacs should
> always deal with backtab, never with S-tab.  (We would want
> function-key-map to map S-tab into backtab also, to ensure that this
> is true even on systems that produce S-tab directly.)

I think that is a reasonable solution for this release; if some more
sophisticated handling turns out to be desirable, it can probably wait
until the next release.

So unless there are strong objections, I'll implement that by default
(well unless somebody else wants to implement it; David?).

Are there funny names for backtab other than those mentioned in this thread?

-Miles
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