Avoid alt-enter resize the frame in Windows
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mastro35 · 2022-09-15 16:53

Hi guys, is there a way to tell windows to NOT resize my Emacs frame
when I am in Org-mode and I M-Enter to create a new bullet item?

That’s so frustrating…

Thanks

Davide

Ps I know that running it in WSL2 would solve this problem but I
prefer to use the windows version

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eli-zaretskii · 2022-09-15 19:11

Did you try to use `w32-register-hot-key`?

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mastro35 · 2022-09-16 06:06

Actually I didn't know about that function and as I read the doc I
thought "that's was I was looking for!".

Unfortunately it doesn't work... and just for this special case I
think.

I tried with

(w32-register-hot-key \[M-tab\])

and it succesfully disable the ALT-TAB key.

But if I run

(w32-register-hot-key \[M-return\])

that returns 't', the ALT-ENTER key keep resizing the frame...

Even registering all the M- keys doesn't help...

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eli-zaretskii · 2022-09-16 11:29

> But if I run
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> (w32-register-hot-key [M-return])
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> that returns 't', the ALT-ENTER key keep resizing the frame...

What if you try `(w32-register-hot-key [M-RET])` instead?

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mastro35 · 2022-09-17 11:31

It doesn't work, returns nil and the ALT+Enter key keep resizing the
window.

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eli-zaretskii · 2022-09-17 15:42

What version of Emacs is that?

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mastro35 · 2022-09-17 16:13

28.1 on Windows 11

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eli-zaretskii · 2022-09-17 19:11

Then I guess this is the second known case that doesn't work...

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spirou1415 · 2022-09-26 10:16

I had the exact same problem. In my case in it was set to go to
fullscreen also in emacs (Try C-h k).

I had to use

(global-unset-key (kbd "M-<return>"))

and

(local-unset-key (kbd "M-<return>"))

to unset it.

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mastro35 · 2022-09-27 15:32

Wow! It works if I exec it in my Org-mode buffer… but it doesn’t if I
put it in my init.el file… how come?

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mastro35 · 2022-09-28 12:53

solved with

```elisp
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (global-unset-key (kbd "M-<return>"))
            (local-unset-key (kbd "M-<return>"))))
```

tnx!

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spirou1415 · 2022-09-29 11:48

👍 Seems to me it's a bug in org-mode, and org reactivates the binding.
I also get the problem in Linux when I checked. Normally the binding
should be bound to org-meta-return and not toggle-frame-maximized.

Thanks for the idea with lambda, I added (local-set-key "<M-return>"
'org-meta-return) to restore functionality.