Merge changes from emacs-23 branch

[gnu-emacs] / lisp / bindings.el

diff --git a/lisp/bindings.el b/lisp/bindings.el
index 4eab37edf462b2d81de636ebaaf32d99e1386f41..eba6bf7a78a60303645283876cd0d12d73245789 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/bindings.el
+++ b/lisp/bindings.el
@@ -1054,6 +1054,9 @@ if `inhibit-field-text-motion' is non-nil."
 ;; so we can't distinguish those two keys, but usually we consider C-SPC
 ;; (rather than C-@) as the "canonical" binding.
 (define-key function-key-map [?\C-@] [?\C-\s])
+;; Many keyboards don't have a `backtab' key, so by convention the user
+;; can use S-tab instead to access that binding.
+(define-key function-key-map [S-tab] [backtab])
 
 (define-key global-map [mouse-movement] 'ignore)