Re: Behavior of M-x and A-x

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Xah wrote:
> Xah wrote:
> > ; setting the PC keyboard's various keys to Super or Hyper
> > (setq w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil
> >       w32-pass-rwindow-to-system nil
> >       w32-pass-apps-to-system nil
> >       w32-lwindow-modifier 'super ;; Left Windows key
> >       w32-rwindow-modifier 'super ;; Right Windows key
> >       w32-apps-modifier 'hyper) ;; Menu key
>
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> > Please note that using lwindow/rwindow like this does not work for all
> > key sequences unless you are using the patched Emacs+EmacsW32.
>
> What is the proper way to set it on Windows?


The only thing that the patched version really offers in this regards is 
the possibility to actually avoid sending lwindow etc to the system:

LRESULT
CALLBACK
LowLevelKeyboardProc(INT nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
...
            case VK_LWIN:
              {
                bHandle = NILP(Vw32_pass_lwindow_to_system);
                break;
              }
            case VK_RWIN:
              {
                bHandle = NILP(Vw32_pass_rwindow_to_system);
                break;
              }
            case VK_CAPITAL:
              {
                bHandle = NILP(Vw32_enable_caps_lock);
                break;
              }
            case VK_NUMLOCK:
              {
                bHandle = NILP(Vw32_enable_num_lock);
                break;
              }
            case VK_MENU:
            case VK_LMENU:
            case VK_RMENU:
              {
                bHandle = NILP(Vw32_pass_alt_to_system);
                break;
              }
      if (bHandle) {
        // Just to be sure check we are in the right thread
        if (GetCurrentThreadId() == dwWindowsThreadId) {
          // Do we have keyboard focus?
          HWND hwnd = GetFocus();
          if (0 != hwnd) {
            SendMessage (hwnd, msg, wParamMsg, lParamMsg);
            return TRUE;
          }
        }
      }
    }
  HHOOK hhook; return CallNextHookEx(hhook, nCode, wParam, lParam);
}


And then it also offers easy way to set things up up, see w32-meta.el 
that comes with the patched Emacs+EmacsW32.