From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Mac Carbon: Control on Caps Lock becomes sticky problem Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:01:37 -0500 Message-ID: <9C6FD38D-CD04-40DA-BADA-9487129BDE3B@raeburn.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138770294 20665 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2006 05:04:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 01 06:04:50 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4AAi-0002UR-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:04:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4ADl-0001tU-8i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:07:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4ACb-0001Ec-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:06:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F4ACY-0001Bo-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:06:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F4ACY-0001BY-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:06:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.148.227.151] (helo=rwcrmhc11.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F4AB9-00030d-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:05:15 -0500 Original-Received: from raeburn.org (c-65-96-168-237.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[65.96.168.237]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20060201050140m110016cl0e>; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:01:40 +0000 Original-Received: from [18.101.0.226] (laptop.raeburn.org [18.101.0.226]) by raeburn.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1151clc025033; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 00:01:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: prestowk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49864 Archived-At: My guess is that it's a bug in the Apple code. I've seen the problem on my PowerBook G4, but not on my desktop system at work. But since having Control in the below-bottom-row position under Emacs exacerbates my RSI problems, I'm dealing with losing text now and then... :-( The uControl web page (http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ucontrol.html) indicates that the author of that program (which you had to use under earlier OS X releases to swap these keys) used to believe it was a hardware problem, but since found out about special events that get delivered for the control key. uControl is being replaced by fKeys (http://www.kodachi.com/fKeys/), a rewrite specifically for Tiger. If you feel like trying it out, let me (us?) know if the "control lock" problem is fixed there; if you don't, maybe I'll get around to trying it eventually.... Ken