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S-TAB is mismapped in the *Help* buffer

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From: Paul Griepentrog <pgriepen <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>, 6616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6616: S-TAB is mismapped in the *Help* buffer
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:42:14 -0700

 Thanks for looking into this.

On 7/12/10 12:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:03:11 +0300
> > Cc: Paul Griepentrog <pgriepen <at> gmail.com>,
> >  6616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> >
> > These lines were in the file when I started working with the port (more
> > than 2 years ago ;), and although the definitions got moved around
> > slightly, I never removed anything unless a problem was reported.  
Now that
> > we have this report, I propose removing BOTH of the S-tab lines.  I tried
> > this locally and it did no harm, and let S-tab be interpreted (though 
some
> > default mapping seems to translate it to plain tab).

With the proposed change there still is no binding for backward-button in
*Help* and many other modes... the real problem.  The translation from S-TAB
to TAB effectively drops the shift modifier.

How about removing:

(put 'S-tab 'ascii-character (logior 16 ?\t))

and binding [S-tab] to [backtab] in the `ns-alternatives-map' instead?

    (define-key map [S-tab] [backtab])

Maybe stretching it here, but along this line of thinking, is it useful to
distinguish between [S-tab] and [backtab]?  Bug #1281 points out that it
becomes a hassle for users -- at least under Windows OS -- who must rebind
both [S-tab] and [backtab].

If it is not useful, we could remove the duplicate bindings which several
modes provide.  These modes often bind a combination of [S-tab], "\M-\t" or
"\e\t" to the same function invoked by [backtab]:
   - forms
   - info
   - widget
   - org-table
   - org
   - mh-letter
   - mh-folder
   - mh-show
   - info

Instead we could align it to other modes which only use [backtab]
   - erc
   - grep
   - compile
   - ses
   - diff-mode
   - log-view

Thanks for the consideration.

>  Sure, go ahead and remove these lines, and please close the bug after
>  you do.
>
>  Thanks.

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