From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: oops! re: capslock problem sent to Eli only by mistake Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 23:13:32 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503980131 10766 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2017 04:15:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 04:15:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 06:15:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dmXvv-0002Q2-Gl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 06:15:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmXw2-0005CR-4W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:15:30 -0400 X-Received: by 10.237.59.75 with SMTP id q11mr1949853qte.54.1503980074821; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!u11no641379qtu.1!news-out.google.com!j49ni166qtc.1!nntp.google.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news3 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pbc18d75c266b6192100b76e7fe9d66de6119686cd70a83df.newsdawg.com X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.newsguy.net:8080 X-Received-Bytes: 2298 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1271803214 Content-Language: en-US Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:220011 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114112 Archived-At: On 8/27/2017 09:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: "B. T. Raven" >> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:17:29 -0500 >> >> I have been using Emacs from version 21 through 24.3.1 and I recently >> noticed that the capslock key does nothing in w32 Emacs. Works in Word, >> Notepad, Wordpad, browser and every other application that takes >> keyboard input. >> C-h k shows nothing when capslock pressed (maybe it shouldn't; I never >> tried it before) > > CapsLock should produce the effect you expect: upper-case letters when > you press letter keys. It does that here, in every Emacs version I > ever used. > >> Any help or even only insight into this problem would be appeciated. > > Like others told you, begin by trying this in "emacs -Q". If CapsLock > doesn't work there as well, try disabling the key reassignment > software you installed. > Thanks, Mario, John, and Eli. Running emacs -Q gave the same symptom, but rebooting w64 ver. 7 Ultimate fixed the problem. I usually just put OS to sleep at night and sometimes get away without rebooting for a few weeks but apparently MS garbage collection is not as good as Emacs'. It's still a mystery why keyboard entry worked outside of Emacs. Maybe it's because runemacs.exe and emacsclientw are not run from C:\Program Files or c:\Program Files (x86) but from c:\emac\bin. Thanks again, Ed p.s. I am married to the keytweak software. Without that I would need a dedicated keyboard for emacs; maybe that's not a bad idea.