From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: caps lock confusion Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:02:37 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237578102 18325 80.91.229.12 (20 Mar 2009 19:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:41:42 +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 20:42:59 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 1LkkcK-0007zU-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:42:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkkay-0007Os-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:41:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+uad1zT+tWB24cBMYe5PvpbYW0Cy1dZ+NRdOiviDWHs+bDye+MOSmFxIgSz6hW9P3GEw0ByzDLkBpPqlYVB7ygyhwXt4tlGxGIiCtv1OPU4yzgNpWExTQT509zi4I4Ors= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:02:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19C8I6GnPOeZk0gvJvxsG8BmqaLGGPxEJxvn9hLeeSPlA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:5ge95W7k/pWq/CBVkJYRcbyv97U= sha1:hPqxtsnaI9f6/78iOi0NNA8BWbo= User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) XEmacs/21.4 (Educational Television, i686-pc-linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167848 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:63140 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! Look at your shift key, it's stuck! No, really, happened to me just a few weeks ago.