Re: Change in handling of the Windows key

[Richard Copley]

On 22 June 2016 at 19:06, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 19:23:17 +0200
>>
>> I can reproduce with 25.1.50.1 (i686-w64-mingw32) of 2016-06-06 on
>> Windows XP. C-h k says
>
> In 25.1.50, I see this as well (and the handling of this and other
> similar keys was indeed changed on master).  But the OP talked about
> emacs-25 and the pretest, so either there's a confusion somewhere, or
> there's another problem.
>
> Jussi, can you look into this?  w32-pass-lwindow-to-system is t, and
> yet the left Windows key doesn't open the Start menu.  Curiously, the
> right Windows key does.

Since this isn't an intentional feature, I've created a proper bug
report (#23830) to answer Eli's questions. (I hadn't seen the other
replies until now.)