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Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:45:16 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:00:07 -0500
> From: Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Paul seems to be saying that the right Alt key has a compelling
> function for some set of Users (temporary keyboard layout disable)
Paul was talking about GNU/Linux systems, not about MS-Windows.
> Meanwhile I am very curious to know how Eli managed to get his system
> to provide both left and right Meta modifiers from the Alt keys. If
> memory serves, when I last used Emacs on a Windows/2000/cygwin system,
> I did not have this problem. But a freshly installed Windows/XP
> system on a Dell PC with a Logictech natural keyboard does exhibit the
> behavior. Windows/XP has a very complex Locale setting mechanism in
> the control panel. Perhaps this is where one needs to select a
> different locale, but it is not at all intuitively obvious how to do
> this such that the right Alt key will map to a Meta modifier. Knowing
> what locale settings Eli is using might help some.
Tell me what to look at on my machine and what to report, and I will
tell you what I have here. (I simply do not know what information
defines the ``Windows locale''.)
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, (continued)
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Michael Reilly, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Lennart Borgman, 2005/12/28
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Michael Reilly, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/12/30
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/31
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, David Kastrup, 2005/12/31
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Paul Michael Reilly, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Stefan Monnier, 2005/12/29
- Re: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/12/28