Re: Very odd key event behavior in trunk

[Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:57:58 -0400, John Wiegley wrote:

> I haven't yet been able to track this down to a reproducible case, but
> I'm using the latest trunk on OS X 10.6.3, built using "--with-ns".
> 
> What happens is that Emacs will suddenly start misinterpreting my
> keystrokes.  For example, I have C-RET bound to `other-window', so I
> press that quite often.  Then, for no reason I can determine, Emacs
> suddenly thinks that I'm typing C-\ <tab> whenever I type C-RET.
> 
> If I switch away from Emacs with Cmd-TAB and switch back a few times, it
> seems to reset this problem, but until I do switch away Emacs thinks
> that every C-RET is a C-\ <tab>.  Nor is this is the only key sequence
> that gets misunderstood.  The only thing in common between the
> misinterpreted keys is that they all use modifiers of some kind.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this very odd behavior?  With the same .emacs
> configuration I never once saw such a thing Emacs 23.
> 
> John

I may have seen this behaviour, as it describes something that has 
happened to me recently, but I just assumed it was flubulating fingers. I 
will pay more attention to see if it is emacs misbehaviour. 

Shelagh