From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shelagh Manton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Very odd key event behavior in trunk Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270679749 7389 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2010 22:35:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 22:35:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 08 00:35:48 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzdqe-0006ut-BE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:35:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nzdqd-0008NA-R9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:35:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nzdq0-0008CX-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45254 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nzdpz-0008Bo-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:35:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzdpy-0002dg-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzdpy-0002dZ-I6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzdpu-0006aS-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 203.219.222.168 ([203.219.222.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from shelagh.manton by 203.219.222.168 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:35:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.219.222.168 User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:123339 Archived-At: 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-\ 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-\ . 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