Re: What's happened to M-<tab> `completion-at-point'?

[Tassilo Horn]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I never use the Linux console (unless something is severely broken) but
>> can confirm Alan's observation.  With emacs -Q -nw , all of M-TAB, ESC
>> TAB, and C-M-i say <backtab> is undefined.  That happens with emacs 27,
>> 28, and the current master.  I also have ncurses 6.3 which ships with
>> tons of files below /usr/share/terminfo/ including the l/linux Alan
>> mentioned.
>
> My point is that if <backtab> comes from outside of Emacs, there's
> nothing we can do about it.
>
> But Alan's report says that "C-h l" tells a different story: that
> Emacs got "ESC TAB".

That's right, all of M-TAB, ESC TAB, C-M-i are shown as ESC TAB in C-h
l.

Bye,
Tassilo