From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Movement commands and caps lock Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:29:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20120815062916.GA6844@shike2.com> References: <20120812172424.GB9357@shike2.com> Reply-To: k0ga@shike2.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1345040059 9054 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 14:14:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 16:14:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1T1eMT-00023c-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:14:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1eMS-000686-5G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:14:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1XBc-0001j5-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1XBb-0006Bl-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from 29.red-80-25-17.staticip.rima-tde.net ([80.25.17.29]:51099 helo=hal9000.shike2.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1XBb-0006Be-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: by hal9000.shike2.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 42AC97FC66; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:29:16 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.25.17.29 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:14:14 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152548 Archived-At: > IIUC, by "text mode" you don't mean M-x text-mode RET ubt you mean that > Emacs is running in a something like a Linux console or an xterm, right? Yes, text mode here means that emacs is not running as an X application. > IIRC the processing of caps lock is OS dependent, but assuming you're > running with an X11 display, then it might even depend on the exact kind > of "lock" you're using (I seem to remember that the behavior might > depend on things such as whether the key is a shift-lock or caps-lock). This is something logical, but why the mark behaviour?. Emacs translate it from C-S-b to C-b, so the expected result should be backward-char, not set-mark and backward-char. Roberto.