From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: capslock changes control characters? Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:30:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203892316 32603 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2008 22:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: "Chris Moore" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 24 23:32:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTPOP-0006tP-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:32:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTPNt-00088I-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:31:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTPMQ-0007Ii-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:30:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTPMP-0007Hh-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTPMP-0007HV-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTPMO-0001TM-JG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:30:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JTPMO-0000WA-5C; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:30:16 -0500 In-reply-to: (christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:90295 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21288 Archived-At: Would someone please DTRT and ack? DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=RPUQW6ffWncPFrTfAXlFMPICwOhciplksuvNI3Gb+pc=; b=XbmYZo8fHpDLziB73TB3r8yHK5AYhx/bRpyTATYaqW4nmtJrscewGg93La8Zk4p2MBy7BmjlxySQKe+KvyR8CdWrri+YMwK28Be0gc23drOx12LFuaQ2S5urEF63f5bSzFPq4+2RIhkJe24oO51JFO5vtPH4G2LeAODj/V7tKvM= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:45:01 +0100 From: "Chris Moore" To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: capslock changes control characters? I tried to insert a TAB into a C++ mode buffer by typing: C-q C-i I got an error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p 33554441) insert-and-inherit(33554441) quoted-insert(1) call-interactively(quoted-insert nil nil) Turns out I had capslock on. This is reproducible in "emacs -Q" in the default *scratch* buffer. $ emacs -Q [ turn on capslock] C-q C-i