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

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 03:16, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> AFAIK the `backtab` is usually used for `S-tab` rather than `M-tab`.
> What do you get if you hit the TAB key together with the Shift modifier?
> Does Emacs also receive the ESC TAB byte sequence in that (and then maps
> it back (correctly this time) to `backtab`)?

On my Ubuntu 22.04 with Linux 5.15.0, in tty, both Shift+Tab and
Alt+Tab produce an ESC TAB sequence. So probably the problem on the
ncurses/terminfo side is induced by a problem on the Linux side.

(In my view, every instance where two distinct keys produce the same
code is a problem.)