Re: Enabling Transient Mark Mode by default

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Miles Bader wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > M-SPC seems to be trapped by this window manager (metacity) so it may
> > > not be a very good binding for a lot of people (since metacity gets many
> > > of its keybinding cues from windows, I'd also check whether windows
> > > traps that)...
> > Windows does not trap M-SPC but Alt-SPC. But, yes, it will be a problem
> > on w32 too as long as Alt is use for Emacs META.
>
> Er, well, the concept of "M-" is often kind of fuzzy at a WM level
> (since keyboards generally don't say "Meta" anywhere), but yeah, many
> WMs seem to trap key bindings that may be what Emacs thinks of as
> "M-SPC".

And I was wrong/unclear: Alt-SPC is not trapped, but the use of Alt-SPC 
interfere with the use it has in all other w32 GUI programs I know: 
Alt-SPC activates the "system menu" (which is the menu that is opened if 
you click the upper right corner of a w32 window). This is used for 
maximize/restore/minimize/close so it is pretty important IMO.