GNU bug report logs - #38007
scroll-lock binding on Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: 38007 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38007: scroll-lock binding on Windows
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:46:43 +0100

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This is with 27.0.50, on Windows 10.

The binding of scroll-lock-mode on binding.el is:

  (define-key global-map [Scroll_Lock]    'scroll-lock-mode)

and the docstring of scroll-lock-mode says:

  Note that the default key binding to Scroll_Lock will not work on
  MS-Windows systems if ‘w32-scroll-lock-modifier’ is non-nil.

And the default value of w32-scroll-lock-modifier is nil:

  w32-scroll-lock-modifier is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
  Its value is nil

But the Scroll Lock key does not generate a Scroll_Lock event, but scroll:

  <scroll> is undefined

Shouldn't the binding be to [scroll] on Windows?

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