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

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> martin rudalics wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Does (setq w32-pass-alt-to-system t) not do that for you?
> Thanks Martin, it does. That is not the problem. I use a slightly
> patched version of Emacs where this works very good (with the windows
> keys as META instead).
>
> I am just trying to see what can be done to enhance "cross-platform
> usability". Since w32 still is the by far most common platform for
> the users I believe we should think of how to avoid making it a
> burdon switching from that platform to GNU/Linux.

If the conventions on GNU/Linux are different, it is not the business
of Emacs to emulate Windows.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum