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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: capslock key mapped with keytweak seems to be unbound by Emacs w32
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:50:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y3q53vzx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <onsood0g6t@news6.newsguy.com> (btraven@nihilo.net)

> From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:17:29 -0500
> 
> I have been using Emacs from version 21 through 24.3.1 and I recently 
> noticed that the capslock key does nothing in w32 Emacs. Works in Word, 
> Notepad, Wordpad, browser and every other application that takes 
> keyboard input.
> C-h k shows nothing when capslock pressed (maybe it shouldn't; I never 
> tried it before)

CapsLock should produce the effect you expect: upper-case letters when
you press letter keys.  It does that here, in every Emacs version I
ever used.

> Any help or even only insight into this problem would be appeciated.

Like others told you, begin by trying this in "emacs -Q".  If CapsLock
doesn't work there as well, try disabling the key reassignment
software you installed.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-27 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-26 21:17 capslock key mapped with keytweak seems to be unbound by Emacs w32 B. T. Raven
2017-08-27  1:33 ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-08-27  1:42 ` John Mastro
2017-08-27 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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