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 09:22:20 -0500 Message-ID: <54B3D89C.3070109@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> <54B3C946.7020200@verizon.net> 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 1421072538 11435 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2015 14:22:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:22:18 +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 15:22:10 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 1YAfsf-0005UJ-N2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:22:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34479 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfse-0001JV-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfsR-0001JO-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:21:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfsN-0007lc-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.13]:26153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YAfsN-0007lS-5s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:21:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.146] ([70.209.129.147]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0NI200KN9IJX6A00@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:21:34 -0600 (CST) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=PYxIXZlY c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=+w9JSLFh8Usw747n9rpooA==: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=Kf6yUTO2wUTpYiS1sI8A:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-reply-to: <54B3C946.7020200@verizon.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.46.173.13 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:102030 Archived-At: 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 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 > 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.