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RE: [h-e-w] How to use the menubar with keyboard?


From: Underwood, Jonathan
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] How to use the menubar with keyboard?
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:14:30 -0500

Not sure if anyone has suggested this but, doesn't placing the following in your .emacs file do exactly what you want?

(setq w32-pass-alt-to-system t)

jonathan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tuomas Salo [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: February 25, 2002 6:52 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Jonathan Epstein; Jeff Rancier; Nascif Abousalh-Neto
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] How to use the menubar with keyboard?
>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> thanks for the answers on this subject. But since I found no good
> solutions, I tried to "fix" the source code myself. Here's a
> patch to 21.1
> that should make Alt+[A-Z] and Alt-Space open the menu while
> leaving other
> Alt combinations alone. Alt-F will open eg. the File menu
> even if the 'F'
> letter isn't underlined.
>
> The patch makes any other Alt+[A-Z] or Alt-Space key bindings
> unusable.
> Additionally it might screw up something else (I guess there
> is a reason
> for the WM_SYSCHAR case...) and even make your Emacs unstable
> (the nesting
> level thing seems nasty).
>
> If you try the patch, please let me know if it worked for
> you. I'll start
> really using my new binary tomorrow. I'll tell if something surprising
> comes up.
>
>
> Tuomas
>
>
>


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