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26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for node User Input

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Subject: bug#38315: closed (26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for
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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 11:42:05 +0000

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for node User Input
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:17:47 -0800 (PST)

There are index entries for the Alt key on MS Windows, but there is no
index entry for node `User Input', where it is mentioned in a general
context (not just MS Windows).  Please add an index entry for this.

These are the current index entries containing "alt" that refer to an
Alt key:

<Alt>-<TAB> vs M-<TAB> (MS-Windows)
<AltGr> key (MS-Windows)
Alt key (MS-Windows)
Alt key invokes menu (Windows)
AltGr (MS-Windows)
M-<TAB> vs <Alt>-<TAB> (MS-Windows)

ns-alternate-modifier
ns-right-alternate-modifier
w32-alt-is-meta
w32-pass-alt-to-system
w32-recognize-altgr

(I had to look for "meta" in the index to find the mention of the Alt
key in node `User Input'.)

In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17763
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 38315-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38315: 26.3; Emacs manual: please index Alt key for node User
 Input
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:41:15 +0200

> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:36:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 38315 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I looked for info about the `Alt' key and the `A-'
> modifier, using `i' (with substring matching).
> I was not looking for info specific to MS Windows.
> 
> Luckily, I was pretty sure that there was some info
> about this, even though I couldn't find it by looking
> with `i' for matches for `alt'.  I eventually found
> it by looking for matches for `meta'.
> 
> My search for it was to point users to it who had
> questions about it:
> 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53918/capital-a-meaning-in-emacs-syntax
> 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/44889/what-is-the-a-binding

Thanks.  The place where Alt, Hyper, and Super are described is not
"User Input", so the index entry should lead to a different node.

Anyway, I added a few missing index entries for the modifier keys,
including in "User Input".

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