From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "14794@debbugs.gnu.org" <14794@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#14794: [External] : Re: bug#14794: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 21:13:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54883F21977A5FB008A76D28F3399@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v8x9wtbj.fsf@gnu.org>
> > > Unless someone knows a way around this (I searched for it, but didn't
> > > find any solutions, only complaints), I guess this will remain a
> > > "known bug".
> >
> > Skimming this bug report, there doesn't seem to be anything to be done
> > on the Emacs side -- or at least there wasn't eight years ago.
> >
> > Is this still the case today?
>
> I think we have a solution for this since Emacs 26.1. From NEWS.26:
>
> ** Intercepting hotkeys on Windows 7 and later now works better.
> The new keyboard hooking code properly grabs system hotkeys such as
> 'Win-*' and 'Alt-TAB', in a way that Emacs can get at them before the
> system. This makes the 'w32-register-hot-key' functionality work
> again on all versions of MS-Windows starting with Windows 7. On
> Windows NT and later you can now register any hotkey combination. (On
> Windows 9X, the previous limitations, spelled out in the Emacs manual,
> still apply.)
Excellent. This is good news. I didn't notice that
in the E26 NEWS. Thank you.
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[not found] ` <<83fvvmuyct.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-10 22:28 ` bug#14794: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit Drew Adams
2013-07-11 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-12 8:20 ` martin rudalics
2013-07-12 8:29 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-12 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 13:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 14:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 21:13 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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