Re: w32-enable-(caps|num)-lock vs typematic keyboard

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> And then what?  You said:
>>
>>   if you keep the key down on a typematic keyboard the caps-lock or
>>   num-lock state can still change
>>
>> Does that mean that I press and hold the `d' key, for instance, and
>> after some time the CapsLock key goes on?
> 
> No. In my message "the key" tried to mean "they key affected by the
> variable previously referred to".
> 
> In other words:
> 
>  ELISP> (setq w32-enable-caps-lock nil)
> nil
> 
> And now I press Caps Lock and keep it down: the caps lock light
> flickers like mad. I release the key: the light flicks a few moments
> more (while the typematic buffer lasts, I suppose), and then stops.
> Sometimes on, sometimes off.
> 
> The same thing happens with `w32-enable-num-lock' and the Num Lock key.


And it works like a charm if you instead use a low level keyboard hook...