Re: Semi-unhelpful error message given when trying to (provide 'CUA-mode)

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> Jan Djärv wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lennart Borgman skrev:
>>> Jan Djärv wrote:
>>>>> As far as I know F10 also always works on w32 for activating the
>>>>> menus. However the most usual way on w32 is to use the ALT
>>>>> key. Is that the usual way in Gnome/Gtk+ too?
>>>>
>>>> Most usual depends on what the user do, but keyboard shortcuts for
>>>> menus, using ALT + some key, are available if the menus are set up
>>>> like that by the program.  Emacs does not.
>>>
>>> What is missing in Emacs here? I know from what you told me before
>>> that Emacs does not setup accelerator keys for the menus (which at
>>> least on w32 are underlined characters). However on w32 this is not
>>> needed to activate the menus with ALT. It suffices to just press
>>> ALT. (Usually once but sometimes in some apps twice, which I
>>> believe is due to somewhat bad handling of accessibility in those
>>> programs.)
>>
>> Oh, you men just pressing ALT and no additional key?  That is not
>> used in Gnome/Gtk+.  Or any other toolkit or OS I know of either.
>> Must be w32-specific.
> Yes, I mean just pressing ALT and then using the arrow keys to
> navigate in the menus.
>
> Thanks, then I understand a little bit better why my cries for
> reserving the ALT key for the menus on w32 have fallen unheard
> here. However on w32 that is very important. Too bad those things are
> not cross-OS. Does anyone knows if there is something in the
> accessibility guidelines that says something about this?

There is some variable w32-pass-alt-to-system or similarly, I believe.
Not having a w32 system, I can't vouch for its actual name.

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