[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#4836: closed ("<S-packet> is undefined" when using AutoHotKey)

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> Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:55 -0700
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> emacs 22.1.1 worked fine with autohotkey.  I have macros for correcting 
> my common typos, and accelerating commonly entered items, and entering 
> characters not found on the keyboard.
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> Seems none of the autohotkey macros works with emacs 23.1, instead they 
> generate an error "<S-packet> is undefined".
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> Guess I'll have to switch back to emacs 22.1.1, as it worked fine for 
> me, until this issue can be resolved.
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>  On 31/10/2009 7:36 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> > emacs 22.1.1 worked fine with autohotkey.  I have macros for 
> > correcting my common typos, and accelerating commonly entered items, 
> > and entering characters not found on the keyboard.
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> > Seems none of the autohotkey macros works with emacs 23.1, instead 
> > they generate an error "<S-packet> is undefined".
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> Apparently the "packet" key code is special, so we shouldn't treat it as 
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> I have removed it from the list of function keys that Emacs recognizes, 
> so the behaviour should go back to what it was before.  However my 
> testing shows that we cannot receive Unicode characters outside the 
> current codepage using VK_PACKET as Windows replaces such characters 
> with '?' by the time we receive them. It appears that a low level 
> keyboard hook may be able to retrieve the original character though, so 
> if we receive Lennart's cleaned up keyboard hook patches I'll try to 
> look at VK_PACKET support again.
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