Re: Rule of thumb for the choice of key notation?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Alexander Shukaev writes:

> Another problem is that C-m is RET, C-i is TAB and so on.  Does 
> this key dualism apply to angle bracket notation in the similar 
> way?  Is there no way to separate those in both GUI and terminal 
> Emacs (without dirty hacks of chained remapping)? 
>
> Finally, there exists <S-tab> to <backtab> mapping by default 
> but there is no 
>
> (define-key function-key-map (kbd "<S-C-tab>") (kbd 
> "<C-backtab>")) 
>
> Why?

I think because of the previous paragraph, TAB is the same as C-i, 
so C-TAB is the same as TAB.

--
Jorge.