RE: Bug with S-Tab in keymaps

[Drew Adams]

> > Should S-Tab be stored in a keymap as a symbol or a number? 
> > Or are both valid?  Which is the canonical form?  Where
> > should the conversion from the uncanonical form to the
> > canonical be done?
> 
> IIUC the canonical name of shift-tab in Emacs is `backtab'.
> The conversion from various other terminal-specific representations
> should be done in function-key-map.  If it's not done there, please
> report it as a bug.

Thanks, I didn't know that. Icicles was binding it by default to both `S-tab'
and `S-iso-lefttab', but I've now changed that to `backtab'.

I agree with Alan that the canonical form should be documented in the manual.
And just what is meant by "canonical form" should be explained there as well.