Re: Please add S-tab to button-buffer-map

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > But why does the binding to S-Tab in Info work then?
>
> info explicitly binds it as well as binding backtab.

Yes, I noticed.

> > IMO it looks better to bind to S-Tab since that is what the user sees.
>
> If the user looks closely at their keyboard, they might see a backtab 
> symbol on the tab key, printed in the location where the shifted 
> representation is expected to be.
>
> Rather than expecting all modes to bind backtab, S-tab, iso-lefttab and 
> S-iso-lefttab consistently, to cover all the possible representations 
> that a terminal might give that key, we use function-key-map to map them 
> all to backtab.

Ah, thanks, I never saw that symbol before and had no idea what backtab was.