Bug 70340

Summary:	Shift plus Tab complete doesn't work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Forrest <forresttaylor2000>
Component:	gnome-terminal	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	limbo	CC:	nalin
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Description Forrest 2002-07-31 18:08:32 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I hold down the Shift key, using Tab for tab completion does not work. 
This worked in the previous beta, and in previous versions of GNOME.

Oftimes I hold down the shift key as I am trying to use tab completion
(especially in the Red Hat CD tree).  Typing `cd RedHat/R<TAB>` used to work
while continuing to hold down the shift key.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to use tab complete while holding down the shift key.

Actual Results:  Tab complete doesn't work until you let go of the shift key.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-08-14 07:25:56 UTC

The terminal widget maps a shift+tab key to the backtab keysym (\e[Z), which is
consistent with XTerm and makes more sense to me.  I'd be inclined to close this
as either NOTABUG or WONTFIX.

Comment 2 Forrest 2002-08-22 20:14:53 UTC

Is the backtab keysym actually used for anything (in an term)?
Where does one change the map?

Comment 3 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-08-28 02:21:19 UTC

I couldn't say what an application might use the backtab key for, but I was
mistaken when I stated that it was consistent with xterm.  I'm not sure how you
enter the backtab key in xterm, because there's no capability defined for that
key.  (When you press shift+tab in xterm, it echoes the control sequence for
move-to-previous-backstop, but that's not a key sequence.)

In GTK+ apps, shift-tab generates GDK_ISO_Tab key events, which VTE isn't
actually handling (will be fixed in 0.8.10).  Once VTE starts handling it, the
binding can be overridden by editing /usr/share/vte/termcaps/xterm and adding or
replacing the string specified as the value for "kB".  The default value is \E^I
(escape-tab), which is the same sequence alt-tab produces if your window manager
or application doesn't do something else with it.

Comment 4 Jay Turner 2002-08-28 20:22:18 UTC

I'm not seeing the backtab behavior in a gnome-terminal with vte-0.8.10-1.

Comment 5 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-08-29 18:35:41 UTC

Jay, to verify, can you run "od -tx1", type in Ctrl-V, Shift-Tab, Enter, Ctrl-D,
and check the output?  You should get "1b 09 0a", which is escape, tab, newline.

Comment 6 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-10-18 00:49:36 UTC

Closing, works for me.