From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: S-TAB acts like M-TAB in console sessions Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:23:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87ipgojk3v.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <87pqawjl7s.fsf@googlemail.com> <87k414p72j.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMxTb-0001b2-6v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:21:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMxTY-00087n-GI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:21:26 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMxTY-00087I-9d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:21:24 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SMxTR-0003bm-TI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:21:17 +0200 Received: from e178055206.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.55.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:21:17 +0200 Received: from tjolitz by e178055206.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:21:17 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org William Gardella writes: > Thorsten Jolitz 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 ). 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