Re: [h-e-w] MS Windows Keybinding

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:28:14 +0100
> > From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
> > 	Will <address@hidden>
> >
> > On 10/29/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > However I
> > > believe it would be if my little patch with a low level keyboard hook
> > > was accepted into Emacs.
> > I don't remember you sending it to emacs-devel for a long while. It's
> > your patch, *you* should push for it.
>
> Actually, I think Lennart pushed it enough at the time.

Not enough, I just did not have time to finish.

> > That includes convincing people
> > that it is clean and useful and fixes a real problem (or adds an
> > interesting new functionality), so it is worth the added complexity.
>
> FWIW, I'm quite opposed to low-level keyboard hooks, because they
> bring in an enormous complexity when one wants to deal with non-ASCII
> keyboard input.

I do not believe that. It is about making it possible handle keyboard 
keys individually if you want it. It does not affect other keyboard keys.

And as I have said before I have been distributing the low level 
keyboard hooks with the patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32 for very long, 
thousands of people have downloaded it. I have never heard any complaints.