Re: Bikeshedding go! Why is <M-f4> unbound?

[grischka]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> > Well, it would be difficult to determine on the Windows level whether
> > the single keystroke was maybe part of C-x M-f4 or C-h M-f4.  So in
> > any case it is better to reuse emacs central event parser.
>
> This is unnecesary too. Alt-F4 must work irrespectively of the prefix
> keys typed so far: if you type C-x or C-h and then click on the Close
> button on the top right of the frame, Emacs thinks you want to exit the
> application. Alt-F4 must have the same effect as clicking that button
> (when M-f4 is unbound on Emacs, hence the need for checking the binding
> from the Windows event loop).

A matter of taste.

> >     (global-set-key [M-f4] 'w32-syskey)
>
> If we go that route why not just bind M-f4 to a function that closes the
> current frame, as suggested at the beginning of this thread?

Because you want to support menu accelerators [Alt-<letter>] ?

--- grischka