From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AltGr finger twisters documented? Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:46:17 +0200 Message-ID: <42CA8119.3060804@student.lu.se> References: <47811c547866f3.47866f347811c5@net.lu.se> <42CA7AAD.1040200@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120567883 3744 80.91.229.2 (5 Jul 2005 12:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 14:51:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpmsK-0006sM-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:50:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpmta-0003CG-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpmrE-00023l-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:49:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpmrC-00022g-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:48:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpmrB-00022d-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dpmud-0007xr-AJ; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B94E2900255BD8; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:46:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <42CA7AAD.1040200@gnu.org> 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:40419 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40419 Jason Rumney wrote: > Juanma Barranquero wrote: > >> Maybe I didn't see your messages, because I've known for a long time >> that I could only get C-] and friends using the right control key. >> >> > Does the variable w32-recognize-altgr affect this? > > I am not sure whether setting that variable to nil will prevent real > AltGr keys working, or just the simulated version for keyboards > without an AltGr key. If the latter, then I wonder if t is the > appropriate default for this variable. Yes, it surely changes things. I can for example not type \ at all if I set this to nil. So setting this to nil gives me a completely new keyboard layout which I do not think is useful at all.