Re: Mark

[Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net>]

On 01/12/2015 08:16 AM, Charles Millar wrote:
>
> On 01/12/2015 01:20 AM, Yuri Khan wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Hugh Mayfield
>>>> <hugh.mayfield@opengroupware.ch> 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
>
Forgot to mention that I opened emacs -Q in a terminal; and the same 
behavior whether transient-mode-mark is set to nil or to t.