Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

[Francis Wright]

> Thank you for your report.
>
> The above paragraph from the manual was badly worded.  The real intent
> is that `w32-recognize-altgr' controls the effect of the right Alt and
> left Ctrl _pressed_together_, not each one of them separately.  I have
> now clarified this in the manual.
>
> If the variable has no effect on LCtrl+RAlt combo on your system,
> please tell.


Thanks for the clarification.  I can't precisely answer your question 
because my keyboard does not have a right Alt key.  It has one Alt key on 
the left of the space bar and one AltGr key on the right of the space bar. 
I think this is standard for UK keyboards and all four of the keyboards that 
I have immediate access to have this same layout: one Alt key on the left 
and one AltGr key on the right.

I have two keys that I expect to be affected by AltGr: AltGr-4 gives € (the 
Euro symbol) and AltGr-` (AltGr-backquote) gives ¦ (a non-standard vertical 
bar).

In Emacs 22, by default, the AltGr key does what I expect, as above.  If I 
evaluate (setq w32-recognize-altgr nil) then AltGr becomes equivalent to 
Control-Meta.  In both cases Control has no effect when I use the AltGr key.