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bug#68914: Windows makes Emacs choke on and swallow the WIN keys


From: Nikolay Kudryavtsev
Subject: bug#68914: Windows makes Emacs choke on and swallow the WIN keys
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 16:32:48 +0300
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

Hello.

I think I've seen this bug in the wild a couple of times too.

But there's something else. I'm not sure if it's the same bug, but something's been iffy about Emacs keyboard input handling on Windows for the last few major versions.

Unfortunately I've yet to find a simple reproduction recipe and hence why I haven't filled that one the tracker. The problem is as follows.

I use a certain piece of software that switches between keyboard layouts by CAPS LOCK. So CAPS LOCK, the feature, is normally mostly inactive on my machine and requires a certain other combination to activate. Emacs normally respects that. Except when it's under a load running lisp code. During that time there are time intervals during which pressing CAPS LOCK would incorrectly set it on for me.

One way I can reliably reproduce this is by doing M-x list-packages and then tapping CAPS LOCK. At some point it would light up.

Thus I believe that the input handling intermittently breaks during the high load(lisp evaluation).

My testing had shown that the last version that does not suffer from this is Emacs 25.

Just posting this in case it's the same problem and this information is of any use in debugging.






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