GNU bug report logs - #14794
24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 21:11:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 14:10:45 -0700 (PDT)

At least it does not work as far as I can tell.

emacs -Q    ; but same problem with older Emacs versions

(w32-register-hot-key [M-tab])
(w32-register-hot-key [M-S-tab])

Try C-h k M-TAB.  Try M-TAB.  The key is immediately grabbed by Windows. 



In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2013-07-01 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 113246 lekktu <at> gmail.com-20130701165437-ea20s94hqwp3ttaj
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --enable-checking CFLAGS='-O0 -g3'
 CPPFLAGS='-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1 -I/c/usr/include''
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 87 days ago.

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