Subject: Re: bug#6616: S-TAB is mismapped in the *Help* buffer

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:32:52 +0200

>> > and binding [S-tab] to [backtab] in the 
>> `ns-alternatives-map' instead?
>> Actually, we might want to do that everywhere, rather than only in
>> x-win.el and ns-win.el.
> I disagree.  S-TAB has always been a free global key, and it has
> remained free in most keymaps.

IIUC you don't disagree, you just misunderstand: the binding from S-tab
to backtab is via function-key-map, i.e. it's only used if there's no
binding to S-tab.  IOW it's just a fallback.

        Stefan