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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Drew Adams wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> If you can't reach them, then don't worry about them. If no one can justifiably
> speak for them, and no one can measure them, then we must ignore them. No sense
> polling or speaking for the supernatural.

If you want reliable results you can't ignore them.

> > 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.
>
> I don't know what those "technical things" are or why the Emacs doc should take
> them into account. Why make this so complicated? It's just about letting users
> choose Windows ALT-TAB within Emacs or Emacs M-TAB within Emacs.

I am trying to say that there might be technical limitations (but I am 
unsure which these are).

> So are you saying that w32-register-hot-key does not work in some cases? Can you
> give an example?

It is rather complicated I believe. When you do things that you are not 
supposed to do the window manager/OS might get upset.

When I registered Alt-Tab I could see things happening with the menus 
that I never seen before. One of the menus in Emacs where jumping a bit 
upwards and it became bold. Like if it had recieved most of the Alt key 
but not all.

> > (MS has not documented when this happen. It is just that the
> > recommended way is to use a low level keyboard hook.)
>
> Recommended way to do what? To have Emacs recognize ALT-TAB as M-TAB? Why care
> what MS recommends about that?

To get things working.