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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > It is a very good idea to document those keys. Here is a preliminary 
> > list for w32:
> >
> >   - Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab
> >   - Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Z
> >   - Ctrl-A
> >   - Alt-Space
> >   - Esc
> >   - Tab, Shift-Tab
> > ** Also very important:
> >   - Ctrl-<arrow key>
> >   - Alt-<any letter>
> >   - Alt-Print
> > ** More clashes:
> >   - Alt-F4
>
> You are overstating things here. None of these are grabbed by Windows.


Yes, I got carried away a bit. I forgot to tell that. What I wanted to 
say was that the use of these keys in Emacs does not follow the UI 
guidelines and therefore are a surprise for new Emacs users. Therefore 
we ought to mention them.