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Re: w32-pass-lwindow-to-system (& ...rwindow)


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: w32-pass-lwindow-to-system (& ...rwindow)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:08:35 +0300

> From: "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com>
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:34:09 -0500
> 
> >From the EmacsW32 page:
> 
> "The design of Emacs makes it very hungry for keyboard keys. Normally on
> MS Windows Emacs grabs the Alt key for its own use as the Meta key.
> However the standard use of Alt in MS Windows is thereby impeded. If Emacs
> grabs Alt you can not switch window with Alt-Tab and you can not reach the
> menus with Alt. This is very annoying to many MS Windows users. "
> 
> But this does not describe Emacs behavior on my ver. 21.3 w32
> installation. With w32-alt-is-meta set t, I can switch between msw
> processes with Alt-<tab>.

Emacs does NOT grab Alt when w32-alt-is-meta is set to t, at least not
in such a destructive way.  If the above text makes it sound like
Alt-TAB no longer works due to something Emacs does to Alt, then that
text should be rephrased.




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