[PATCH libX11] NLS: Add an additional Compose mapping for the Tab key.

Michał Górny mgorny at gentoo.org
Sun Jan 16 02:37:37 PST 2011


Thanks to that, in some applications (e.g. Opera web browser) it is now
possible to input the horizontal tab character (using <Multi_key> <Tab>)
where <Tab> is normally bound to switching between widgets.

Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny at gentoo.org>
---
 nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre b/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
index c3c45db..1d346b2 100644
--- a/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
+++ b/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ XCOMM on some keyboards.
 <Multi_key> <minus> <space>      	: "~"   asciitilde # TILDE
 <Multi_key> <space> <minus>      	: "~"   asciitilde # TILDE
 
+XCOMM Additional mapping for the Tab key. It is important
+XCOMM not to specify a keysym to bypass the key mappings.
+<Multi_key> <Tab>               	: "\011" # HORIZONTAL TAB
+
 XCOMM Spaces
 <Multi_key> <space> <space>      	: " "   nobreakspace # NO-BREAK SPACE
 <Multi_key> <space> <period>     	: " "   U2008 # PUNCTUATION SPACE
-- 
1.7.4.rc1



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