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From: | Suvayu Ali |
Subject: | Re: Indenting text bugs. |
Date: | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:56:11 +0100 |
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On 03/03/10 12:44 AM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:Normally, `M-TAB' (hence `ESC TAB') will complete text (e.g. a function name) at point. It is bound by default to `complete-symbol', `lisp-complete-symbol', `completion-at-point', or something similar, depending on the current mode and your Emacs version.Isn't that a very inconvenient default? Almost every window manager across platforms intercept that to switch windows...Yes, some of us think that it is. Note hoever that it is "Meta-Tab", not "Alt-Tab". Personally I use the left window key (instead of Alt) as Emacs' Meta. On ms windows that requires the patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32 however.
Thanks Lennart, this subtlety had escaped me. :-pHowever I found the windows key is often not recognized properly when using emacs in no-window mode, specially in some terminal emulator. A remapping like that could be very inconvenient. Anyway, thanks to Drew I heard about the feature, on my own I never would have found it. (I found most of the "fancier" commands through typos ;) )
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