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: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:16:54 -0500 Message-ID: <54B3C946.7020200@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> <83bnm55bnm.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 1421072221 6267 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2015 14:17:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:17:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 12 15:16:52 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 1YAfnY-00033T-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:16:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfnX-00072V-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfnL-00072P-3p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:16:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfnH-0006A6-11 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.9]:12029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfnG-0006A2-S9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:16:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.4] ([74.111.46.95]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0NI200JIKFITBO00@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:16:08 -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=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=o1OHuDzbAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=YNv0rlydsVwA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=NW1WauER3MQGuY2gV4EA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA: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: 206.46.173.9 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:102029 Archived-At: On 01/12/2015 01:20 AM, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii 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. >>> 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. >> CapsLock is not supposed to affect cursor and arrow keys, only >> characters you insert. > Right, but Hugh did not indicate he is using arrow keys specifically. > With the famous Emacs supposedly-more-ergonomic-than-arrows point > movement command bindings C-n, C-p, C-b, C-f, C-a, C-e and others of > this kind, I can reproduce the problem as described, on an > uncustomized GTK+ Emacs on X/GNU/Linux. > > I have (setq transient-mark-mode nil) in my .emacs; I do not use the arrow keys, rather C-p, C-n, etc. (for the "total emacs experience"). If my caps lock key is on I experience the same behavior as Hugh. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, as I recall I first noticed this in December (if this occur much earlier I was not paying attention) and my set up is GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5) of 2014-12-19 on brahms, modified by Debian version jessie