GNU bug report logs - #11011
kbd and TAB with modifiers (eg S-TAB)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, notabug

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-03/msg00037.html

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From: David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11011 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11011: Binding S-TAB
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:12:52 +0000

On 14/03/12 08:58, Antoine Levitt wrote:

>> works for me (tm). what platform are we talking about?
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 11.10, with gnome/metacity. (on a french keyboard)
>
> Typing S-TAB gives:
> <backtab>  (translated from<S-iso-lefttab>) is undefined


I'm just wrong, sorry for the noise - I overconfidently answered without 
rechecking my .emacs, I was actually doing:

(global-set-key (kbd "<backtab>") ...)

probably /because/ the more naive "S-" didn't work.
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