Re: Mark

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Hugh Mayfield
>> <hugh.mayfield@opengroupware.ch> wrote:
>> >>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Because Caps Lock is very similar to holding down Shift, and holding
>> down Shift while moving point is a CUA gesture for extending the
>> region.
>
> CapsLock is not supposed to affect cursor and arrow keys, only
> characters you insert.

Right, but Hugh did not indicate he is using arrow keys specifically.
With the famous Emacs supposedly-more-ergonomic-than-arrows point
movement command bindings C-n, C-p, C-b, C-f, C-a, C-e and others of
this kind, I can reproduce the problem as described, on an
uncustomized GTK+ Emacs on X/GNU/Linux.