bug#38315: closed (26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for node User Input)

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> 26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for node User Input
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> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:17:47 -0800 (PST)
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> There are index entries for the Alt key on MS Windows, but there is no
> index entry for node `User Input', where it is mentioned in a general
> context (not just MS Windows).  Please add an index entry for this.
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> These are the current index entries containing "alt" that refer to an
> Alt key:
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> <Alt>-<TAB> vs M-<TAB> (MS-Windows)
> <AltGr> key (MS-Windows)
> Alt key (MS-Windows)
> Alt key invokes menu (Windows)
> AltGr (MS-Windows)
> M-<TAB> vs <Alt>-<TAB> (MS-Windows)
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> ns-alternate-modifier
> ns-right-alternate-modifier
> w32-alt-is-meta
> w32-pass-alt-to-system
> w32-recognize-altgr
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> (I had to look for "meta" in the index to find the mention of the Alt
> key in node `User Input'.)
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> In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2019-08-29
> Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17763
> Configured using:
>  `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
>  --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
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> Re: bug#38315: 26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for node User Input
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> > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:36:45 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
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> > I looked for info about the `Alt' key and the `A-'
> > modifier, using `i' (with substring matching).
> > I was not looking for info specific to MS Windows.
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> > Luckily, I was pretty sure that there was some info
> > about this, even though I couldn't find it by looking
> > with `i' for matches for `alt'.  I eventually found
> > it by looking for matches for `meta'.
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> > My search for it was to point users to it who had
> > questions about it:
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> > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53918/capital-a-meaning-in-emacs-syntax
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> > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/44889/what-is-the-a-binding
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> Thanks.  The place where Alt, Hyper, and Super are described is not
> "User Input", so the index entry should lead to a different node.
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> Anyway, I added a few missing index entries for the modifier keys,
> including in "User Input".
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