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: Right Alt/Meta keys on Windows systems Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:27:00 +0100 Message-ID: <43B2CAE3.4070207@student.lu.se> References: <200512281541.jBSFfXUQ013499@copa.pajato.com> 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 1135791959 2504 80.91.229.2 (28 Dec 2005 17:45:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 28 18:45:56 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ErfN4-0000EN-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:45:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ErfON-0004RI-AG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Erf6K-0004ZE-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Erf6F-0004Ss-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:28:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Erf6E-0004Se-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:28:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Erf6R-0005hy-1E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:28:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43ABF6D500139C3E; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:27:00 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: pmr@pajato.com In-Reply-To: <200512281541.jBSFfXUQ013499@copa.pajato.com> 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:48438 Archived-At: Paul Michael Reilly wrote: >I currently find myself having to use Windows/XP for a short while. >My first action was to install cygwin and rebuild the latest CVS Emacs >snapshot. Much to my chagrin, it would appear that the ancient >Windows right Alt/Meta key problem still exists (the right Alt key is >NOT a Meta modifier key as is the left one). I searched the devel >archives and it would appear that either I missed the solution or it >is still an unsolved problem. Is it possible that there is still no >easy solution (editing the registry does not qualify as an easy >solution, IMHO)? If so, could someone please state or provide a >reference to the issues so I can decide which of the problem or the >cure is the more painful to me. > > The problem is still there. I proposed a solution quite a while ago but it was decided that it was too close to next release of Emacs. In the mean time I have a patch for this which I and I believe others have been using since this summer. Go to http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html to find out more about my patch. You can find binaries there with and without this patch. Last patched version is from 2005-12-18 (there is actually one from 12-25 too I believe but I have not had time to move it to its final location yet).