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bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area |
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Mon, 08 Jan 2018 20:42:12 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:52:48 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: kireev.artur@live.ru, 30010@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> Couldn't we tell users how to prevent Emacs from fiddling with such
> >> key bindings?
> >
> > I thought about mentioning this in PROBLEMS, but it sounded too
> > obscure even for that. I could be convinced, though. Did you mean
> > PROBLEMS or did you mean something else?
>
> It looks to me as if now on Windows (1) Emacs grasps key combinations
> before anyone else gets hold of them and (2) if it doesn't find an
> appropriate binding for them, emit a warning unless it's a combination
> reserved for Windows itself.
Are you talking about Emacs 26 or later? This bug report is about
Emacs 25, where AFAIR the above was not true.
> For example, on XP I use ahk to emulate the Aero combination of
>
> lwindow key + left key
>
> via
>
> ctrl + lwindow + alt + left key
>
> This works with all other applications and also in a "normal" emacs
> where I assign
>
> (setq w32-lwindow-modifier 'hyper) ; lwindow is hyper
>
> But with emacs -Q I get the warning
>
> <C-M-lwindow> is undefined
>
> although I apparently don't get it in later invocations of the same
> executable. I think (2) is a bad idea and there should be an option
> to turn off such warnings. Unfortunately, I have not been able to
> understand how this mechanism works nowadays.
Maybe we finally have a reason to provide a user facility for
disabling the keyboard hook. (It would have to be on master, I think,
as AFAIR it is not very trivial, but maybe I misremember, or missed
some easy way of doing that.)
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, Kireev Artur, 2018/01/06
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/06
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- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/07
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, martin rudalics, 2018/01/07
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/07
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, martin rudalics, 2018/01/08
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, martin rudalics, 2018/01/09
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/09
- bug#30010: 25.3; changing layout in Windows 8.1 causes endless scroll in echo-area, martin rudalics, 2018/01/10