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| From: | Francis Wright |
| Subject: | Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows |
| Date: | Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:58:36 -0000 |
From: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden> To: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:23 PM Subject: Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows
The manual says that setting w32-pass-lwindow-to-system (and dito r) to
nil prevents that these keys are sent to MS Windows. I do not know how
many times I have said this now: It does not do that! They are sent to MS
Windows. The only way to stop that according to the documentation from
Microsoft is to use a low level keyboard hook.
To show this just test
emacs -Q
M-: (setq w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil)
and then press <lwindow> + e. That will open MS Windows Explorer.
The documentation for the variable `w32-pass-lwindow-to-system' carries a rider that key *combinations* involving the left windows key cannot be handled by Emacs, but the manual does not include this rider, and so is a little misleading. Perhaps adding a reference in the manual to the variable documentation for further details would suffice.
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