Re: C-M-TAB stand-in for M-TAB, on MS Windows?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

John Paul Wallington wrote:
> On 26 May 2008, at 17:16, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
> > John Paul Wallington wrote:
> > > On 26 May 2008, at 01:12, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > > M-TAB doesn't work on MS Windows. ESC TAB works in its stead in some 
> > > > contexts,
> > > > but not all.
> > > FWIW, on NT derived systems one can use the function 
> > > `w32-register-hot-key' to enable Emacs to see M-TAB (untested on Vista).
> >
> > On what version did you test this?
>
> The development version of Emacs during 2004-2007 or so on Windows 2000 
> and Windows XP.  Does it not work anymore?  I think I put 
> (w32-register-hot-key [A-tab]) in my .emacs file.

Yes, it does. I just tested on XP Pro.

I thought that Alt-Tab could not be handled this way. This key sequence 
and those that involve the Windows keys are special.

I just did the w32-register-hotkey thing above and then bound [A-tab] to 
`ignore' but it is not totally ignored. Hm, I say a very strange thing 
that tells me this, but it is unrelated to the key binding - I believe.

You can however handle those key sequences with a low level keyboard hook.