From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: caps lock confusion Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:34:07 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87mybgm73k.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237570877 26212 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2009 17:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:41:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 20 18:42:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkijU-00016b-DO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:42:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkii7-0001IL-PJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp20-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MjNjMGM5ZGZhZWVmNWMwZjMwMzhlMWM4MWE3NmRmNTE2NWFjMmYwOQ== Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Mar 2009 18:34:09 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1237570449 news-1.free.fr 11787 88.182.134.169:55616 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167845 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63137 Archived-At: kj writes: > I have had this problem occur to me about half a dozen times in > the last two weeks (I don't know why, this had never happened > before): Emacs suddenly starts interpreting my keystrokes as if > the caps lock key had been pressed (all caps, etc.), except it > hasn't been; and if I do press the caps lock key, then Emacs will > interpret my keystrokes in the opposite way, as if the caps lock > were off. > > My caps lock key appears to be in perfect order. It has a little > light that indicates when it is on. And the behaviors of all other > applications are consistent with this indicator. Emacs is the only > one whose behavior is backwards. > > In the past, the only way I have found to solve this problem is to > kill and restart Emacs, which I find terribly disruptive. > > Is there some other way to reset Emacs? > > Also, any tips that would help me troubleshoot this problem would > be greatly appreciated! Perhaps you activated caps-mode? It would be surprizing since AFAIK, it's not a bundled mode, and there's no shortcut binding to activate it. Try: M-x caps-mode RET to toggle it. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__