From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#7637: 24.0.50; Caps Lock triggers set-mark-command Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:32:42 +0800 Message-ID: <87r5dc1mud.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87zks6bg1c.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292859250 32425 80.91.229.12 (20 Dec 2010 15:34:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7637@debbugs.gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 20 16:34:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PUhkT-0004m9-V5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:34:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUhkT-0005hD-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36130 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PUhjH-0004yE-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUhjG-0001UM-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.145]:48752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PUhjG-0001UI-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:32:50 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (bb116-14-228-227.singnet.com.sg [116.14.228.227]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-04.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oBKFWfoB024638 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:32:43 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DC361161E17; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:32:42 +0800 (SGT) In-Reply-To: ("Mitja =?utf-8?B?VXLFoWnEjSIncw==?= message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:26:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.145 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133842 Archived-At: A user has reported that under a certain KDE setting, Caps Lock breaks Emacs by making every motion key a shift-motion key, thus breaking the shift-selection feature. Does anyone have KDE installed to test this? Mitja Ur=C5=A1i=C4=8D writes: > I'm using it in Debian Lenny with KDE. > I do have Caps Lock and Control swapped by kcontrol, though. > > > Turning on caps lock also turns on set-mark-command. > > All C- and M- moving commands from then on mark text > > into a region. > > This does not apply for the four arrow keys. > > > > To reproduce: > > 1) Write some text. > > 2) Set caps lock to on. > > 3) Move around the text with C-p, C-n, M-b, M-f and other > > C- and M- keys for moving point. > > > > Region is now marked despite that no C- was pressed > > or otherwise set-mark-command invoked.