From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: tabs in Windoze In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:40:37 EDT." <8f85b3c59034429136876783809549d6@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: Quinn Dunkan Message-Id: <20020605011033.F11DE9013E@yak.ugcs.caltech.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:10:28 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a56b53f0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I don't think that's it. If I hold down Alt deliberately > and press Tab, the silly Alt-Tab popup hangs around. > When Tab was misbehaving, I had no popup. In my opinion, most keyboard shortcuts are broken by design in windows, because you never know which of 500 little widgets or buttons has the focus now and will absorb your keystrokes. Perhaps this is a result of "don't need a mouse" being a requirement of early versions. Often when I hit alt (or something), the little menu in the upper left corner gets focus and absorbs everything I type until I figure it out or it closes the window for me. This is more fun than when the normal menubar gets focus since there's no visual indicator that the little gizmo has focus. Anyway, that wouldn't cause your alt-tab thing because supposedly alt-tab can't be sucked up by some random widget. Windows does tend to wander into weird states for no good reason. There are also random helpful features like sticky-keys that turn themselves on when windows gets the impression that maybe you'd like it, which might have the effect of fudging the "alt is down" flag into three-or-five-valued logic. Impossible to know, but making guesses has an entertaining appeal similar to theological philosophy, or discussions of theoretical physics with street people in Berkeley.