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, 04 Jan 2015 10:34:53 +0000 Message-ID: <54A9174D.8060101@opengroupware.ch> References: <54A6CD81.60109@opengroupware.ch> <87iognhg8s.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83d26vae0d.fsf@gnu.org> <54A84DC8.2010904@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420367728 11707 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2015 10:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 10:35:28 +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 04 11:35:23 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 1Y7iWo-0004gW-QI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7iWn-0001jP-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7iWc-0001jD-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:35:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7iWZ-0004OQ-0h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx01.mykolab.com ([95.128.36.1]:30374 helo=mx03.mykolab.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7iWY-0004DI-RH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:35:06 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kolabsys.net In-Reply-To: <54A84DC8.2010904@verizon.net> 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:101882 Archived-At: 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. > > 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