From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: 7637@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7637: 24.0.50; Caps Lock triggers set-mark-command
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:32:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5dc1mud.fsf__20941.2885633812$1292860421$gmane$org@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik=0zhp8My32xuSz3qMmKBcobR8rpQP5xQn7EUT@mail.gmail.com> ("Mitja Uršič"'s message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:26:01 +0100")
A user has reported that under a certain KDE setting, Caps Lock breaks
Emacs by making every motion key a shift-motion key, thus breaking the
shift-selection feature. Does anyone have KDE installed to test this?
Mitja Uršič <odtihmal@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm using it in Debian Lenny with KDE.
> I do have Caps Lock and Control swapped by kcontrol, though.
>
> > Turning on caps lock also turns on set-mark-command.
> > All C- and M- moving commands from then on mark text
> > into a region.
> > This does not apply for the four arrow keys.
> >
> > To reproduce:
> > 1) Write some text.
> > 2) Set caps lock to on.
> > 3) Move around the text with C-p, C-n, M-b, M-f and other
> > C- and M- keys for moving point.
> >
> > Region is now marked despite that no C-<SPC> was pressed
> > or otherwise set-mark-command invoked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-20 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 11:43 bug#7637: 24.0.50; Caps Lock triggers set-mark-command Mitja Uršič
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[not found] ` <AANLkTik=0zhp8My32xuSz3qMmKBcobR8rpQP5xQn7EUT@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-20 15:32 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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2010-12-20 21:39 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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