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* S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions
@ 2012-04-25  7:59 Thorsten Jolitz
  2012-04-25  8:08 ` William Gardella
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2012-04-25  7:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


Hi List,
I have a strange problem with org-global-cycle (S-TAB) in console
sessions. It mainly doesn't do anything, and C-h k shows "M-TAB is bound
to pcomplete", which it actually is, but I'm hitting S-TAB not M-TAB. 

Otherwise, the "S" (shift) key work, I can type uppercase and all. Is
that a hardware (keyboard) problem, or did anybody experience similar
symptoms? 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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* Re: S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions
  2012-04-25  7:59 S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2012-04-25  8:08 ` William Gardella
  2012-04-25  8:23   ` Thorsten Jolitz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: William Gardella @ 2012-04-25  8:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi List,
> I have a strange problem with org-global-cycle (S-TAB) in console
> sessions. It mainly doesn't do anything, and C-h k shows "M-TAB is bound
> to pcomplete", which it actually is, but I'm hitting S-TAB not M-TAB. 
>
> Otherwise, the "S" (shift) key work, I can type uppercase and all. Is
> that a hardware (keyboard) problem, or did anybody experience similar
> symptoms? 

Thorsten,

This sounds pretty weird, because in console sessions, due to the
limitations of keyboard escape sequences, there is no way to type
shift-tab (what emacs calls <backtab>).  The only way to do
org-global-cycle (or something like it) on console with the default
bindings is to use C-u TAB (startup visibility), C-u C-u TAB (CONTENTS),
C-u C-u C-u TAB (everything).

--
WGG

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* Re: S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions
  2012-04-25  8:08 ` William Gardella
@ 2012-04-25  8:23   ` Thorsten Jolitz
  2012-04-25 14:29     ` William Gardella
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2012-04-25  8:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi List,
>> I have a strange problem with org-global-cycle (S-TAB) in console
>> sessions. It mainly doesn't do anything, and C-h k shows "M-TAB is bound
>> to pcomplete", which it actually is, but I'm hitting S-TAB not M-TAB. 
>>
>> Otherwise, the "S" (shift) key work, I can type uppercase and all. Is
>> that a hardware (keyboard) problem, or did anybody experience similar
>> symptoms? 
>
> Thorsten,
>
> This sounds pretty weird, because in console sessions, due to the
> limitations of keyboard escape sequences, there is no way to type
> shift-tab (what emacs calls <backtab>).  The only way to do
> org-global-cycle (or something like it) on console with the default
> bindings is to use C-u TAB (startup visibility), C-u C-u TAB (CONTENTS),
> C-u C-u C-u TAB (everything).

But then everything is fine with my setup, I just did not know about
this limitation of the console (I only recently started working on the
console after discovering tmux).
Thanks for the help. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

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* Re: S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions
  2012-04-25  8:23   ` Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2012-04-25 14:29     ` William Gardella
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: William Gardella @ 2012-04-25 14:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

> But then everything is fine with my setup, I just did not know about
> this limitation of the console (I only recently started working on the
> console after discovering tmux).
> Thanks for the help. 

You're welcome.  N.B. that there are a few other bindings that won't
work, due to these console limitations.  (info "(org) TTY keys") offers
some idea what to expect from org-mode on the console and some
alternative bindings that are already set up by default.
-- 
WGG

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