Re: Bikeshedding go! Why is <M-f4> unbound?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> (It can't be a library choice AFAICS since no library is
>> involved for an unbound key, but of course
>> a library coiuld provide ways for the user to make this choice.)
>
> Any Lisp code today can decide to capture the unbound error using
> `condition-case', as mentioned earlier.  You can determine at the Lisp level
> what happens when an unbound error is raised.

But this can't be done when entering a command (in Emacs command
loop). Or am I missing something?

And in the cases where you are not entering a key sequences in the
command loop you can test if the given key sequence is unbound.


> Your initial position was, I think, that Emacs must _always_ pass Alt-f4 to 
> w32
> (I could be wrong).

Yes. You could be wrong ;-) -- like everyone else.

I simply was not explicit on that because it did not seem important to
me. Please see my question above for why.