From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Mark
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:20:30 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8Ur_kyXzc1xkxjtX0e34nm1D224VhFcxnhHLMrSfkb_QQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bnm55bnm.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
Right, but Hugh did not indicate he is using arrow keys specifically.
With the famous Emacs supposedly-more-ergonomic-than-arrows point
movement command bindings C-n, C-p, C-b, C-f, C-a, C-e and others of
this kind, I can reproduce the problem as described, on an
uncustomized GTK+ Emacs on X/GNU/Linux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-12 6:20 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 ` Mark Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-12 6:20 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
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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