* oops! re: capslock problem sent to Eli only by mistake
@ 2017-08-29 4:13 B. T. Raven
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2017-08-29 4:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 8/27/2017 09:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
>> 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.
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