bug#12535: 24.2.50; [PATCH] `edmacro-parse-keys' is incorrect for M-<TAB>

[Richard Stallman]

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  > TAB is the ASCII character Ctrl-I, whereas <TAB> is the _function_ key
  > Tab.  Modern keyboards can produce both, and Emacs maps the latter to
  > the former.  But there's no function key Esc on the keyboard.

If the key that says "Tab" is the function key <TAB>, and you produce
ASCII TAB by typing C-i, that is not inherently different from the
situation with ESC.  You can produce the ASCII ESC character by typing
C-[, so we _could_ treat the key labeled "ESC" as <ESC>.  That would
be uniform.

I don't remember whether we treat tab and esc alike in that way or not.
I am mot saying we should change how Emacs handles them.
I'm only saying that it is possible to do so.



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