Re: Switch Meta and Alt modifiers

[Kai Großjohann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>       As Jason pointed out, a similar facility 
>     already exists in the Windows port (and another one is in the DOS port).  
>     I think it would be nice to have a single facility that is platform 
>     independent.
>
> I agree that would be an improvement.

I'm not sure but I think that this does not encompass all of the
Windows functionality.  [time passes]  Ah, for example there is the
variable w32-lwindow-modifier.  If this is nil, the key is not a
modifier but seen by Emacs as <lwindow>.  Else, the key can be seen
by Emacs as any of alt, hyper, meta, super, control, shift.

But the platform-independent mechanism (at least the one I'm thinking
of) would only transform A-x (for some modifier A and some other key
x) into H-x (for some other modifier H and the same key x).

So the closest we could get with the platform-independent mechanism
is to choose some modifier for the <lwindow> key and to have a
boolean variable which chooses whether <lwindow> is seen as that
modifier or as a normal key.

But this looses functionality.

Thoughts?

kai
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