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: Using windows keys for Emacs META on w32 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:48:08 +0000 Message-ID: <4797B618.6030605@gnu.org> References: <477FED30.10201@gmail.com> <479767E2.70909@gnu.org> <47976D34.4090603@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201124913 19281 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2008 21:48:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:48:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Emacs Devel To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 22:48:52 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 1JHnSl-0001xw-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:48:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHnSL-0003HK-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHnSI-0003Fi-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHnSH-0003E3-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHnSH-0003Do-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHnSG-0004Ko-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:48:21 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 16685990/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CABpFl0dTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIriU X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 23 Jan 2008 21:48:19 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:87398 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > I must say, though, that it seems too complicate a patch for such a > small benefit. Or I don't understand what you're trying to do (that's > another distinct possibility :) > That was a previous objection when we were preparing to release Emacs 22.1. Now we have time to sort out any breakage that complexity might bring, so I'm not so worried about that. The complexity is necessary because Windows makes it hard to wrestle back control over a few keybindings from Windows itself. The current patch may look more complex than it really is because of the "rough state", which consists of commented out debugging code, much of which seems unrelated to the keyboard changes.