Re: [h-e-w] can NTEmacs (20 or 21) completely ignore Alt key?

[Jason Rumney]

Jonathan Epstein <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I use an application (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 5) which insists upon
> entering certain characters using an old DOS trick of holding down
> the Alt key and then pressing a numeric key combination on the
> numeric keypad (not to be confused with the numbers at the top of a
> regular keyboard).  For example, Alt-0034 is used for a double-quote
> (").  Try this in WordPad ... it works.
> 
> Is it possible to either:
> 
> (a) get Emacs to entirely stay out of the way of the Alt key?  I
> realize that things such as:
> 
>    (setq w32-pass-alt-to-system t)
> 
> are a step in the right direction, but are insufficient
> 
> OR
> 
> (b) write some Elisp to correctly interpret these keystroke combinations?

(b) should be doable. Especially if the number of characters you need
to enter this way is small.

I am not sure exactly what your requirements are though, perhaps Cntl-Q
already offers what you need.


-- 
Jason Rumney