diff lisp/w3/FAQ @ 118:7d55a9ba150c r20-1b11

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date Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:24:17 +0200
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--- a/lisp/w3/FAQ	Mon Aug 13 09:23:08 2007 +0200
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@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 Q: Options menu is ugly under Emacs 19
 A: Wait for 19.35 - this is because of a 'feature lack' in easymenu.el
 
+Q: Animated GIFs cause XEmacs 19.14 or 20.0 to crash
+A: There was a bug in the GIF decoding routines in XEmacs 19.14 - please 
+   upgrade to XEmacs 19.15 or later.
+
 Q: I get an error when starting up:
-   Symbol's value as variable is void: widget-mouse-face
+   Symbol's function definition is void: custom-declare-group
 A: This usually means you compiled W3 in an emacs that could not find
    the 'custom' package (or found an old version), but are running W3
    in an emacs that find the new one.  This is usually the case if you
@@ -11,3 +15,119 @@
    Make sure that you can load the custom library when compiling
    emacs.  Set the environment variable WIDGETDIR to where your custom
    library lives (ie: ~/lisp/gnus/lisp)
+
+Courtesy of greg stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
+Q: How do i get Shift-Tab to go backwards on a text terminal or XTerm?
+aka: I hate the new text widgets, I can't go through the links with n and b
+     I can go forward using TAB but how do i go backward on a terminal? 
+
+A: Not all terminals can distinguish between a shifted tab and an unshifted
+tab at all. Tab is indicated on a text terminal by a control-i. There is no
+such thing as capital control characters, so if the terminal is going to
+indicate a shift-tab somehow it has to be completely differently. The most
+appropriate thing to use is probably "backtab" which on old text terminals was
+sometimes a separate key and Emacs is already set up to recognize
+automatically if it exists.
+
+Making "backtab" work involves several steps. First you have to make sure your
+console generates some character sequence to indicate the key you want to
+generate a "backtab". Then you have to configure termcap or terminfo to
+recognize that key sequence. Then you may have to make your programs do useful
+things when they get a "backtab", Emacs for example will recognize it
+automatically but except for the Widget and W3 commands nothing is ever bound
+it it.
+
+Step 1 On An XTerm: XTerm obeys standard X Toolkit translations which you can
+use to specify what character sequence Shift-Tab generates. The following X
+Resources will cause Shift-Tab and Meta-Shift-Tab to generate reasonable
+character sequences. You can either put this in your .Xresources or .Xdefaults
+file, or you can put it in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm to make it a
+site-wide default. (On Debian systems you should put it in
+/etc/X11/Xresources, not the app-defaults files):
+
+XTerm*VT100.translations: #override \
+   ~Meta Shift<Key>Tab: string(\033[Z) \n\
+    Meta Shift<Key>Tab: string(\033\033[Z) \n
+
+I recommend these sequences, they are based on what seems to be a more or less
+standard sequence ^[[Z for backtab.
+
+Step 1 On Rxvt: By default Rxvt sends ^[[Z for Shift-Tab. 
+However, if Shift-Tab generates another keysym, like for example in XFree86
+3.2 where it's bound to ISO_Left_Tab then Rxvt will just ignore it. You would
+need to defeat this feature to make rxvt work again by doing something like:
+
+xmodmap -e 'keysym Tab = Tab'
+
+or adding that command to some global X configuration file (On Debian systems
+adding ``Keysym Tab = Tab'' to /etc/X11/Xmodmap or ~/.Xmodmap is sufficient)
+
+Step 1 On A Linux Virtual Console: on a Linux virtual console you can
+configure what character sequences are generated by which keys using the
+loadkeys command. Many systems are set up to run loadkeys automatically on
+startup with some keymap file. On Debian systems this is true, the keymap file
+is specified in /etc/kbd/config and usually lives in the
+/usr/lib/kbd/keytables directory. You want to put something like the following
+in your keytable file:
+
+keycode  15 = Tab   F91
+	alt     keycode  15 = Meta_Tab        
+	shift   alt     keycode  15 = F92
+
+where keycode 15 is Tab on my keyboard (and probably any keyboard). This
+defines Tab and Alt-Tab normally, and also defines Shift-Tab to be F91 and
+Shift-Alt-Tab to be F92.
+
+Then put something like this:
+# backtab and M-backtab
+string F91 = "\033[Z"
+string F92 = "\033\033[Z"
+
+later in the file. This defines what character sequence F91 (Shift-Tab) and
+F92 (Alt-Shift-Tab) should generate. I recommend these sequences, they are
+based on what seems to be a more or less standard sequence ^[[Z for backtab.
+
+Step 2 On A Termcap System:
+
+The termcap capability is kB, i'm not familiar with termcap tools, i think you
+just need to add it to the /etc/termcap file for the terminal you're concerned
+with as kB=\E[Z.
+
+Step 2 On A Terminfo System:
+
+The terminfo capability is kcbt (the long name is key_btab). You want to run
+infocmp to generate an edittable copy of the terminal info. Add the
+capability, then use tic to compile that information. Something like this:
+
+infocmp $TERM > info
+emacs info & # add kcbt=\E[Z, to the file
+tic info
+
+If you do this as root it should add the new definition to the system wide
+terminfo database. If you do it as a normal user it should create a
+~/.terminfo database with a local terminfo info definition for that terminal.
+
+Step 3 On Emacs:
+
+The standard terminal initialization should recognize the backtab capability
+automatically. To test it try C-h c Shift-Tab and see what it calls the key.
+To bind commands to it just use [backtab] in local-set-key or global-set-key
+as in:
+
+(local-set-key [backtab] 'hippie-expand)
+or
+(global-set-key [backtab] 'hippie-expand)
+
+In the interest of maintaining a single consistent set of key bindings between
+X and tty emacsen you may want to make equivalent X keystroke generate
+"backtab" as well, you can do this by doing this:
+
+(define-key function-key-map [S-tab] [backtab])
+or
+(define-key function-key-map [iso-lefttab] [backtab])
+
+To make S-tab or whatever keystroke you made generate backtab on a terminal
+be recognized as backtab under X11 as well. You can check how Emacs recognizes
+this keystroke currently by doing C-h c <keystroke>.
+
+