RE: Emacs not receiving C-M-right from keyboard

[Drew Adams]

> >> > I have a new Dell Latitude D620 laptop. I have everything,
> >> > including Emacs, installed identically to the way I had it
> >> > on my old machine. However, the key sequences `C-M-right',
> >> > `C-M-left', `C-M-up', and `C-M-down' are apparently not
> >> > being sent to Emacs from the keyboard of the new machine.
> >> >
> >> > In emacs -Q (it doesn't matter which Emacs version), `C-h k'
> >> > followed by using `C-M-right' still waits for me to hit a
> >> > key - the `C-M-right' is not seen by Emacs at all. Opening
> >> > a dribble file shows the same thing:
> >> > `C-M-right' key sequences are not recorded.
> >> >
> >> > I've looked through the Emacs doc. I've tried to google for
> >> > something about this, but I haven't found anything. Anyone
> >> > know what's going on and how to fix it? Thanks.
>
> The only thing I can suggest is possibly doing a registry compare. Not
> bbing much of a windows user, I can't be more specific. However, I do seem
> to remember seeing something about registry tweaks and emacs. Is it
> possible you made a registry change on the old laptop and have forgotten
> about it?

No, I don't think so. I rarely touch the registry. I don't know a tool to
compare the two registries, in any case. And, as I said, the symptoms are
the same with all Emacs versions.

> also, just wondering if the following (taken from the Emacs Problems file)
> might be relevant?
>
> ** On MS-Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand
> CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character.
>
> Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
> events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl.  Since Emacs cannot
> distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
> combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
> AltGr has been pressed.  The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set
> to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt.

No, I already tried changing `w32-recognize-altgr'. Also, I don't have an
AltGr key, and I also tried every Ctrl and Alt combination (left-left,
left-right, right-left, right-right).

Are there no Windows Emacs users with an idea about this?