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From: | Uday S Reddy |
Subject: | Re: Key bindings proposal |
Date: | Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:26:43 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 |
On 8/5/2010 9:33 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
I can momentarily depress Alt to activate the menubar.Nope. Have you some setting in .emacs for that? It doesn't work with emacs -Q (nor I'll appreciate that behavior.)
Good guess! I was wondering the whole afternoon. Setting w32-pass-alt-to-system to t does the trick.
The manual says:Emacs compiled as a native Windows application normally turns off the Windows feature that tapping the <ALT> key invokes the Windows menu. The reason is that the <ALT> serves as <META> in Emacs. When using Emacs, users often press the <META> key temporarily and then change their minds; if this has the effect of bringing up the Windows menu, it alters the meaning of subsequent commands. Many users find this frustrating.
You can re-enable Windows' default handling of tapping the <ALT> key by setting w32-pass-alt-to-system to a non-nil value.
----The first paragraph is a bit misleading. But, more mysteriously there is no doc-string for this variable. So, it is quite hidden. I will file a bug report.
Cheers, Uday
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