From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: AltGr finger twisters documented? Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:30:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <42CA7FF8.5050402@student.lu.se> <763C4DA6-2025-4EE1-ADD1-69350F931C16@swipnet.se> <8AE2EF76-8EFB-478A-88BE-1B0CCF5EC034@swipnet.se> <42CAB252.3030407@student.lu.se> <42CAB75C.9010208@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120593536 27384 80.91.229.2 (5 Jul 2005 19:58:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , "Jan D." , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 21:58:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DptYg-00082h-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:58:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DptZx-0002YL-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DptZL-0002NH-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DptZJ-0002Mf-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DptX7-0001WV-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:56:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DptEu-0008QW-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j65JVWch001123; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 20:31:32 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07A1DDE24; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 20:31:57 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2005 18:40:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:40452 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40452 Juanma Barranquero writes: > On 7/5/05, Jason Rumney wrote: > >> Sure it's a bug, but a bug of the OS. Setting w32-recognize-altgr to nil >> appears to avoid this bug for people who don't need AltGr at all. > > I know you're somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but I agree with you. There's > nothing to change here (IMO), but it would be good to document the > issue, don't you agree? w32-recognize-altgr could do with better documentation. Its affect on AltGr was not apparent to me from reading the doc string. There is already an entry in etc/PROBLEMS relating to the use of left Ctrl and right Alt together. That could perhaps be expanded to include an explanation of how AltGr is affected.