From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hugh Mayfield Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mark Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:21:27 +0000 Message-ID: <54B2A307.5070204@opengroupware.ch> References: <54A6CD81.60109@opengroupware.ch> <87iognhg8s.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83d26vae0d.fsf@gnu.org> <54A84DC8.2010904@verizon.net> <54A9174D.8060101@opengroupware.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420993317 17512 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2015 16:21:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:21:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 11 17:21:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YALGy-0001ko-8o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:21:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58670 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YALGx-00052r-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:21:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33129) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YALGm-00052l-94 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YALGj-0007WY-2J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:21:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mx01.mykolab.com ([95.128.36.1]:31850 helo=mx05.mykolab.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YALGi-0007WO-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:21:36 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kolabsys.net In-Reply-To: <54A9174D.8060101@opengroupware.ch> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 95.128.36.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101996 Archived-At: On 04/01/15 10:34, Hugh Mayfield wrote: > > > On 03/01/15 20:15, Charles Millar wrote: >> >> On 01/03/2015 01:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>>> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) >>>> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:27:15 +0100 >>>> >>>>> Sorry for newbie question. After a while, Emacs starts behaving all >>>>> the >>>>> time as if I have typed C-SPC. That is, whenever I move point, the >>>>> text >>>>> between point and the previous location of point is highlighted. >>>>> How do >>>> I'm not sure this will help, but still: This behaviour happens to me >>>> only when I (accidentally) hit the key... >>> In "emacs -Q"? >>> >>> >> I noticed this same behavior within the past two or three weeks, i.e. if >> I accidentally hit caps-lock, Emacs behaves as if I typed C-Spc. > > There might be something in that. I was writing LMC assembler, so had > caps lock on a lot of the time. Will experiment. Turning off CAPS LOCK does indeed seem to be the answer. I wonder why that should be the case, though? > >> >> I ran emacs -Q in a terminal and same behavior. >> >> Emacs version 24.4.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ version 3.14.5) of >> 2014-12-19 on brahms, modified by Debian. >> Debian version - jessie >> >> Charles Millar >> > -- Hugh Mayfield mayfield.motd.org Document Freedom Day - Liberate your documents http://documentfreedom.org/ - 25 March 2015