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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Drew Adams wrote:
> Who's to say whose gut feeling is accurate?

I am to say my gut feeling is accurate, you are to say your gut feeling 
is accurate ;-)


> Whoever polls Emacs users could do so - that could help.

In a question like this I do not think it will help that much. We will 
simply not reach those potential new users that we really would like to 
reach.


> > To alter those keys you have to use a low level keyboard hook. Such 
> > beasts are app specific and where invented as a reaction to 
> > the critics raised against earlier mechanisms for keyboard control
> > on w32. (At least that was how I understands it.)
>
> I have no idea what you're talking about. This is about _documenting_
> `w32-register-hot-key'. Please don't turn it into something else. Whatever you
> mean by "special" and "alter those keys", it doesn't seem to be about
> documenting `w32-register-hot-key'.

I tried to say that the documentation of w32-register-hot-key should 
take the technical things I referred to into account in some way.


> No one is proposing changing the behavior of
> Windows outside Emacs.

It is not that simple to divide those things. If you change Alt-Tab in 
Emacs would you not in a way change Windows too then?


> What does not work consistently, without what low-level keyboard hook?

Alt-tab and the windows keys may in some circumstances still be sent to 
Windows without the low-level keyboard hook. (MS has not documented when 
this happen. It is just that the recommended way is to use a low level 
keyboard hook.)