From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-Tab on w32 (and other window systems?) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:13:12 +0100 Message-ID: <02a901c5142a$c4cd0680$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <014201c512f1$05630180$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <018501c5132e$08b7e520$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01ad01c5135e$a4a92810$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108561318 14544 80.91.229.2 (16 Feb 2005 13:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 14:41:58 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1PRC-0005w8-Ph for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Ph9-0007K0-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:58:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Pgu-0007JW-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Pgt-0007JJ-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Pdr-0006gX-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.114] (helo=av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1P9o-0004oA-FV; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:23:56 -0500 Original-Received: by av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id C256E37E5A; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:23:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00E337E47; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:23:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t3o58p60.telia.com [195.252.56.60]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B9F7E37E42; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:23:54 +0100 (CET) Original-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33540 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33540 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Stallman" > Thanks, that is very useful! However there was another point in my original > message: Info only mention Alt-Tab. To me this seems ignorant since on w32 > at least Alt-Tab can not be used at all. > > Do you mean ESC TAB? If so, why doesn't that work on W32? On w32 the Alt key is used for META in Emacs. However the combination Alt-Tab (as it is usually called on w32) can not be used in Emacs on w32 since the window manager takes it. (This seems to be the case for some window managers on *nix like OS:es too.)