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24.1; misleading keybinding indicator in menu

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From: "Dieter Wilhelm, H." <dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.1; misleading keybinding indicator in menu
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:11:14 +0200

From: uidg1626 <at> VSDTQB0D.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.1; misleading keybinding indicator in menu
--text follows this line--

The menu entry 'Complete Lisp Symbol' e. g. in the *scratch* buffer
shows M-TAB as the keyinding.  This is not likely to work on most
desktops and is misleading!  I suggest changing it to ESC TAB or C-M-i.

Thank you for Emacs

      Dieter

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In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.2.3790)
 of 2012-06-10 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.2.3790
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --cflags
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
 -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: DEU
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug
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-- 
Best wishes

H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt Germany

Message #8 received at 11758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de
Cc: 11758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11758: 24.1; misleading keybinding indicator in menu
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:52:20 +0800

"Dieter Wilhelm, H." <dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> The menu entry 'Complete Lisp Symbol' e. g. in the *scratch* buffer
> shows M-TAB as the keyinding.  This is not likely to work on most
> desktops and is misleading!  I suggest changing it to ESC TAB or
> C-M-i.

Fixed in trunk, thanks for the bug report.

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