From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mark
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:02:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bnm55bnm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8X9zqxT+shcMGejDyTYh-F-xgEjt6dw30D-STcSWSNYmQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 00:22:02 +0700
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> 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.
>
> > 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.
CapsLock is not supposed to affect cursor and arrow keys, only
characters you insert. That's what happens on my system, FWIW. So
there's some other factor at work here on the OP's machine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-11 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-02 16:55 Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-02 22:28 ` Mark ken
2015-01-02 22:33 ` Mark Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-02 22:49 ` Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-02 23:32 ` Mark ken
2015-01-02 23:38 ` Mark Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-03 0:15 ` Mark Bob Proulx
2015-01-03 18:27 ` Mark H. Dieter Wilhelm
2015-01-03 18:57 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-03 20:15 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-04 10:34 ` Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-11 16:21 ` Mark Hugh Mayfield
2015-01-11 17:22 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-11 19:38 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-12 6:14 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-11 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-01-12 6:20 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-12 13:16 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-12 14:22 ` Mark Charles Millar
2015-01-12 16:08 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-12 16:18 ` Mark Yuri Khan
2015-01-12 16:31 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-03 20:20 ` Mark H. Dieter Wilhelm
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