[MPlayer-dev-eng] [bikeshed] Coding style

The Wanderer inverseparadox at comcast.net
Fri Jun 20 21:48:59 CEST 2008


Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:27:43AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> Bryan Henderson wrote:
>> 
>>> Seems like it should be possible to program the backtab key to
>>> simply move back to the previous tab stop, and it would be more
>>> natural than hitting backspace.
>> 
>> I've never heard of a backtab key, and if there is one on my
>> current keyboard it certainly isn't labeled that way.
> 
> It most likely is. Ever looked closely at the tab key? And why there
> is also an arrow to the left? Or in short, shift+tab is backtab.

Ah. I certainly do use that functionality often enough, I've just never
heard it referred to by any particular name (much less that name)7
before. I think of it as just an alternate function of the Tab key, not
as a separate key of its own.

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