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Re: How to avoid META-Key captured by windows instead of emacs itself


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: How to avoid META-Key captured by windows instead of emacs itself
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:54:31 +0200
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CFAN wrote:
> How to avoid META-Key captured by windows instead of emacs itself
> I am a PC user and by defualt I like to use ALT key as the meta key
> to
> perform the various key-binding operations, but
> when shift into Windows OS, the ALT key is captured by windows first
> and then if the
> key-binding is not defined in windows ,Alt-d for example ,it will pass
> onto the emacs to process
> ,but if the  key are defined by windows itself,it will not delivery it
> to the system,
> Now, to avoid such situation,i need to to use ESC instead of alt key ,
> its appears
> ugly inconvinence,for it need to strok two key .


An alternative is to use the Windows right and left keys as Meta. This
however requires a patch to Emacs to work for all key combinations. See

  http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html




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