From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Millar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mark Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:15:04 -0500 Message-ID: <54A84DC8.2010904@verizon.net> References: <54A6CD81.60109@opengroupware.ch> <87iognhg8s.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83d26vae0d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420323973 28796 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2015 22:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 22:26:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 03 23:26:06 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 1Y7X93-0003W9-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:26:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7X93-0007tD-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:26:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7W2R-000397-G7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7W2O-0002ks-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:15:11 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.15]:14090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7W2O-0002Wk-3L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:15:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.4] ([74.111.46.95]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0NHM00DYUAW5VS00@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:14:33 -0600 (CST) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Ko/6AtSI c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=OAkzbR3pJ3IOTdv8n94H8Q==:117 a=Hpgzp-inWqAA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=o1OHuDzbAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=YNv0rlydsVwA:10 a=3OZdgbqXEVEW5VlnzX4A:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-reply-to: <83d26vae0d.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.46.173.15 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 17:25:55 -0500 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:101878 Archived-At: 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. 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