Re: Key bindings proposal

[Xah Lee]

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 18:01, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Â On 13/8/2010 11:37 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
>
>>> If there is any technical reason why this cannot be done on Windows, I
>>> have not yet seen anyone argue it.
>>
>> Such a program might theoretically be possible, but as far as I know 
it does
>> not exist.
>
> I haven't tried it, but shouldn't AutoHotKey be theoretically able to 
do it?

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I might misremember, but I think that was not possible. That was one
> of the reason I added the low level keyboard hook to my patched Emacs.

i researched this about 3 months ago, and in one of the doc page, it 
stated no. (can't find the page at the moment, but i should be able to 
find it if anyone needs)

here's what i've written on my AutoHotkey tutorial:
«the “Win+L” (lock computer) and “Win+U” (easy access center) cannot be 
disabled.»
http://xahlee.org/mswin/autohotkey_examples.html

it was quoted or rephrased from one of the page in the official doc. (i 
myself didn't need/want to disable it)

basically, it's easy to completely disable the Win key. Can be done with 
IntelliType that is bundled with every Microsoft keyboards, thru a GUI.

but there are certain Win+key combinations that's hard or impossible. 
See e.g. http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=345326

btw, same situation with Mac. Certain Opt+key and/or Cmd+key are hard to 
disable.

Xah