[Users] [Bug 2355] Embedding external editor through GtkSocket

[Johan Vromans]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:19:07 +0100
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote:

> Just added the emacsclient option because it seemed to work:
> But if it doesn't maybe it should be removed.
> 
> > 2. Control and Alt keys are not passed to the client. While this may be
> > good for some purposes (e.g., intercepting Control-Enter), it blocks an
> > awful lot of Emacs' functionality.  
> 
> Well, there's a lot of active menus which shouldn't, and these were
> grabbing keystrokes before embedded window. Pushed a fix for that.

On re-examination, it does indeed seem to be the control codes that
are attached to menus. Which turn out to be almost all of C-a through
C-z. Other control and alt codes work properly.

-- Johan