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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 14794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14794: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:19:14 +0300

> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 14:10:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> 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. 

Because it is not bound to any command.  If you bind it, it will work
as expected.
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