From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: exits funnel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Strange Problem with keypresses on Win32 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:25:59 -0700 Organization: Cox Communications Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153154559 23670 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 16:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:42:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 18:42:34 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 1G2WAJ-0001dh-FY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:41:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2WAI-0005oT-ST for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:41:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!68.1.17.232.MISMATCH!peer01.cox.net!cox.net!p01!fed1read10.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.230.117.213 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net Original-X-Trace: fed1read10 1153153631 68.230.117.213 (Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:27:11 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:27:11 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140393 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:36017 Archived-At: Hello, 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. -exits