Re: Key bindings proposal

[Uday S Reddy]

On 8/5/2010 9:33 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> > I can momentarily depress Alt to activate the menubar.
>
> Nope. Have you some setting in .emacs for that? It doesn't work with
> emacs -Q (nor I'll appreciate that behavior.)

Good guess! I was wondering the whole afternoon.  Setting 
w32-pass-alt-to-system to t does the trick.

The manual says:

Emacs compiled as a native Windows application normally turns off the Windows 
feature that tapping the <ALT> key invokes the Windows menu. The reason is that 
the <ALT> serves as <META> in Emacs. When using Emacs, users often press the 
<META> key temporarily and then change their minds; if this has the effect of 
bringing up the Windows menu, it alters the meaning of subsequent commands. 
Many users find this frustrating.

You can re-enable Windows' default handling of tapping the <ALT> key by setting 
w32-pass-alt-to-system to a non-nil value.

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The first paragraph is a bit misleading.  But, more mysteriously there is no 
doc-string for this variable.  So, it is quite hidden.  I will file a bug report.

Cheers,
Uday