From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-SPC C-<left> weirdness
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:28:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdwupqxj.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vzin1h5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:09:26 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> writes:
>>> If you hold down C-SPC, it's eventually going to start
>>> auto-repeating (which would yield flashing messages like you see),
>>> though I imagine <left> _should_ cause X to "cancel" the auto-repeat
>>> state of C-SPC (it does for me); if not, I guess that could be an X
>>> bug.
>>
>> I guess the more precise description of the problem is that C-SPC
>> autorepeats when held down, and it shouldn't. It didn't start doing
>> this until this week.
>
> Hmm, does this really have anything to do with Emacs though --
> isn't it X that determines when/how to autorepeat?
On my other machine, I am noticing that C-SPC does autorepeat, but not
when I hit C-SPC <left> and hold C-SPC. This machine has an older
version of X. So I guess it's an X bug. I'm not sure how to go about
reporting this to the X.org maintainers.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-17 4:38 C-SPC C-<left> weirdness Michael Olson
2008-09-17 6:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-17 9:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-17 14:52 ` Michael Olson
2008-09-17 17:09 ` Miles Bader
2008-09-17 18:28 ` Michael Olson [this message]
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