From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Accessability StickyKeys prevents use of Alt-key for menus on Win 2000 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:01:19 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093993344 22264 80.91.224.253 (31 Aug 2004 23:02:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:02:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 01 01:02:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2Hdm-0006TO-00 for ; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:02:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2Hif-0000ui-Ac for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:07:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2Hib-0000uO-On for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C2HiZ-0000u1-Pz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C2HiZ-0000ty-9V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C2HdN-0000yK-C9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7VN1PnF026944; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:01:25 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5EDDDD39; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 00:01:25 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Lennart.Borgman@astrazeneca.com In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:01:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:8892 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:8892 Lennart.Borgman@astrazeneca.com writes: > I have been trying to make GNU Emacs on Windows 2000/NT to use Alt-key to > use the menubar in Emacs from the keyboard. (This is a standard MS Windows > feature that all programs I know of - except Emacs - uses to access the > menubar.) F10 is another older standard for accessing the menubar which works on many programs on many platforms, including Emacs, and has the advantage of not being interfered with by "sticky keys". > It works with the following: > (setq w32-pass-alt-to-system t) > (setq w32-alt-is-meta nil) > > However if StickyKeys (an Accessibility Option) is used then I have to tap > the Alt-key two times to get to the menubar. After enabling sticky keys, I have to tap the Alt key two times to get to the menubar in any application, not just Emacs. So this seems to be a limitation of sticky keys, not of Emacs.