From: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows
The manual says that setting w32-pass-lwindow-to-system (and dito r)
to nil prevents that these keys are sent to MS Windows. I do not know
how many times I have said this now: It does not do that! They are
sent to MS Windows. The only way to stop that according to the
documentation from Microsoft is to use a low level keyboard hook.
To show this just test
emacs -Q
M-: (setq w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil)
and then press <lwindow> + e. That will open MS Windows Explorer.
The documentation for the variable `w32-pass-lwindow-to-system'
carries a rider that key *combinations* involving the left windows key
cannot be handled by Emacs, but the manual does not include this
rider, and so is a little misleading. Perhaps adding a reference in
the manual to the variable documentation for further details would
suffice.