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: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:38:36 -0500 Message-ID: <54B2D13C.7090600@verizon.net> References: <54A6CD81.60109@opengroupware.ch> <87iognhg8s.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83d26vae0d.fsf@gnu.org> <54A84DC8.2010904@verizon.net> <54A9174D.8060101@opengroupware.ch> <54B2A307.5070204@opengroupware.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421005127 4408 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2015 19:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:38:47 +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 20:38:41 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 1YAOLO-0000dx-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:38:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59192 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAOLO-0007Vl-6x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAOLC-0007Vg-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAOL8-0000Wz-Dt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:38:26 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.15]:9542) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAOL8-0000Tx-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:38:22 -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 <0NI1003P22J1TT60@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:37:52 -0600 (CST) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=D9vw8UVm c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=OAkzbR3pJ3IOTdv8n94H8Q==:117 a=Hpgzp-inWqAA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=o1OHuDzbAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=YNv0rlydsVwA:10 a=iegpXkfdk-ZR6g1-CygA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.46.173.15 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:101999 Archived-At: On 01/11/2015 12:22 PM, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Hugh Mayfield > wrote: >>>>>>> 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. >> Turning off CAPS LOCK does indeed seem to be the answer. I wonder why >> that should be the case, though? > Because Caps Lock is very similar to holding down Shift, and holding > down Shift while moving point is a CUA gesture for extending the > region. I do not enable cua mode so should this possible or expected?