Re: Mark

[Hugh Mayfield]

On 04/01/15 10:34, Hugh Mayfield wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/01/15 20:15, Charles Millar wrote:
>>
>> On 01/03/2015 01:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
>>>> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:27:15 +0100
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for newbie question.  After a while, Emacs starts behaving all
>>>>> the
>>>>> time as if I have typed C-SPC.  That is, whenever I move point, the
>>>>> text
>>>>> between point and the previous location of point is highlighted. 
>>>>> How do
>>>> I'm not sure this will help, but still: This behaviour happens to me
>>>> only when I (accidentally) hit the <caps-lock> key...
>>> In "emacs -Q"?
>>>
>>>
>> I noticed this same behavior within the past two or three weeks, i.e. if
>> I accidentally hit caps-lock, Emacs behaves as if I typed C-Spc.
> 
> There might be something in that.  I was writing LMC assembler, so had
> caps lock on a lot of the time.  Will experiment.

Turning off CAPS LOCK does indeed seem to be the answer.  I wonder why
that should be the case, though?

> 
>>
>> I ran emacs -Q in a terminal and same behavior.
>>
>> Emacs version 24.4.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ version 3.14.5) of
>> 2014-12-19 on brahms, modified by Debian.
>> Debian version - jessie
>>
>> Charles Millar
>>
> 

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