From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Strange Problem with keypresses on Win32 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:30:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153157756 2900 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 17:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 19:35:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2WwQ-0004Y7-Mi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:31:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2WwQ-00013m-7B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2WwA-00011f-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2Ww8-00011L-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:31:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2Ww8-00011C-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:31:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1G2Wyq-0007KN-4t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsmt250.oracle.com (rcsmt250.oracle.com [148.87.90.195]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k6HER9oc016935 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from dradams-lap.us.oracle.com by rcsmt250.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1576121221153157444; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:30:44 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:36018 Archived-At: I've been using the native windows Emacs (21.3.1) one Win2000 for several months and there has been one intermittently recurring problem. Every once in a while, I encounter a situation where the key I press and the letter which appears on the screen aren't the same. For instance, I might press the 'a' key and see a 'q' or I might press the 'z' key and see a 'w'. I'm not sure if the same keys are affected each time or even if the 'replacement' letters are the same. The only solution I've found is to shutdown Emacs altogether and restart it. This can be more than a bit annoying if I have a lot of buffers open or if I'm in the middle of, for instance, a debugging session. Has anyone else experienced this or know what the problem is? Is there some solution short of restarting Emacs? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer. Hmm.. q for a and w for z? Sounds like your keyboard got switched to French to English or vice versa. In Windows, you can change languages (keyboards) easily, though I've forgotten the keyboard shortcut. Your task bar might indicate the current language as Fr or En. If my guess is right, this has nothing to do with Emacs, and you can get back to the language you want by clicking the task-bar menu (Fr or En). How the language got changed might have something to do with Emacs; I don't know.