jump-to-last-layout binding doesn't work in terminal

[james-w]

Description

I suspect this is a slightly more general problem, but I'm new, so not
sure how to debug further, or what all the terms are. I think the
description might actually be " not received by transient states in the terminal"

Basically the binding for spacemacs/jump-to-last-layout
doesn't work in a terminal.

Reproduction guide

• Start Emacs with -nw
• Start a second perspective layout
• Try and jump between layouts with SPC l

Observed behaviour:
Layout doesn't switch, main buffer receives the and
tries to do the normal binding for that (next button, autocomplete,
whatever)

Expected behaviour:
Jump to last layout

works elsewhere, e.g. SPC so I suspect this is
specific to transient states.

System Info

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.9
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 42bc71d)
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(auto-completion better-defaults emacs-lisp git markdown python
                 (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
                 spell-checking syntax-checking version-control)

I also tried disabling everything except (elisp shell and better-defaults) and
it still happened.

Thanks to Andre0991 on Gitter for helping me to track down how to
reproduce.

[rgrinberg]

I've tried reproducing with emacs in the terminal and could not reproduce. Switching between new perspectives just fine.

[bmag]

@james-w In terminal, TAB and C-i are indistinguishable. What's the value of dotspacemacs-distinguish-gui-tab? Does SPC l <tab> work if you change its value in dotspacemacs and restart Emacs?

Edit: whoops, didn't see this is an old issue. Is this still a problem?

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