From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: capslock key mapped with keytweak seems to be unbound by Emacs w32 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:50:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83y3q53vzx.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503845494 303 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2017 14:51:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:51:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 27 16:51:30 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dlyuF-0007nn-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:51:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlyuM-00057I-5M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:51:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlytp-00055s-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:50:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlytm-0001D1-53 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlytm-0001Cx-1t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2793 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dlytl-0005MH-Fu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:50:49 -0400 In-reply-to: (btraven@nihilo.net) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114106 Archived-At: > From: "B. T. Raven" > 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.