Re: C-Return no longer working in

On Sep 8, 2013, at 18:15, Dave Pawson <[email protected]> wrote:

> M-tab works to 'tab' between Windows on MS Window and Linux?
>=20
> I guess it doesn't on Mac?

It depends on where you put your meta key.
True Emacs lovers have that on CMD, and in OSX CMD-TAB switches application=
s in a way that is somewhat similar to the MS-Windows window switcher.  So =
I have to type M-TAB as ESC, TAB.
(Other Mac users use the ALT key as Meta, e.g. in the default configuration=
 of Aquamacs, and those won't have a problem typing M-TAB.  But then they c=
an't type any 3rd or 4th level keys =97 for the troglodytes that still live=
 in an ASCII world, that may be fine, however.)

> From the original nxml-mode readme
>=20
> "The traditional GNU Emacs key combination for completion in a buffer
> is M-TAB. However, many window systems and window managers use this
> key combination themselves (typically for switching between windows)
> and do not pass it to applications. It's hard to find key combinations
> in GNU Emacs that are both easy to type and not taken by something
> else. C-RET (i.e. pressing the Enter or Return key, while the Ctrl key
> is held down) is available. It won't be available on a traditional
> terminal (because it is indistinguishable from Return), but it will
> work with a window system. Therefore we adopt the following solution
> by default: use C-RET when there's a window system and M-TAB when
> there's not. In the following, I will assume that a window system is
> being used and will therefore refer to C-RET."

Sounds very reasonable to me; that's why I now have those lines in my .emac=
s.
I haven't gone to the trouble finding the checkin that removed the C-RET bi=
nding, which is why I only could speculate about the reason.

Gr=FC=DFe, Carsten