From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: C-M-TAB stand-in for M-TAB, on MS Windows? Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:38:10 -0700 Message-ID: <000401c8bf5f$a6337e50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <007901c8bec5$4179df80$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com><3F8C7B43-05C3-4970-91DA-73152E9286E8@pobox.com> <483AE253.1010208@gmail.com> <000001c8bf4e$ef90aed0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <4C2301B3-884A-4FB3-A221-F80414C04535@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211827168 1606 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2008 18:39:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 18:39:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'John Paul Wallington'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 26 20:40:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K0hc7-0005yl-1B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 20:40:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K0hbL-0002vQ-Tv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 14:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K0hb5-0002sa-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 14:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K0hb3-0002sO-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 14:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34853 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K0hb3-0002sL-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 14:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:37795) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K0hb2-00012s-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 May 2008 14:39:01 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m4QIcuft004018; Mon, 26 May 2008 13:38:56 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m4QELp1p019659; Mon, 26 May 2008 12:38:55 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3680830431211827075; Mon, 26 May 2008 11:37:55 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.171.3) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 26 May 2008 11:37:55 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4C2301B3-884A-4FB3-A221-F80414C04535@pobox.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: Aci/VqXPK3Ykf/CsSFOcguXeIH0/BAACJjvQ X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97749 Archived-At: > > 2. How about registering M-tab by default? > > I suspect that would be too distressing for newbies who want to use > the Windows Alt-Tab CoolSwitch facility unfettered. Better to fetter Windows by default than Emacs. IMO. One app's fetter is another app's free. Oh, did I just call Windows an app? > > 3. How about mentioning w32-register-hot-key in the Emacs manual, > > and indexing it there? This represents an important FAQ. > > 4. Likewise, for the Elisp manual. > > 5. Likewise, for NEWS. How are users supposed to know about this? > > Yeah, it should probably be documented somewhere.