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Re: does emacs know (xev-like) when a modifier key is pressed?


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: does emacs know (xev-like) when a modifier key is pressed?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:49:27 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, 13 September 2012 22:00:53 UTC+8, Joe Corneli  wrote:

> Does Emacs know which modifiers are "on" at a given moment?

No. Certainly not at the lisp level. On some platforms that do not support all 
modifiers being applied to any key, the C code has knowledge for some 
modifiers, but it isn't exposed outside of the keyboard handling code (see 
mod_key_state in w32inevt.c for example)




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