Re: Annoying arrow key scroll behaviour in emacs 27

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:13:53 +0100
> 
> Here's the bottom of the buffer that results from C-h l:
>  ...
>  <Scroll_Lock>             ;; scroll-lock-mode
>  ;; handle-switch-frame
>  <help-echo> <Scroll_Lock> ;; scroll-lock-mode
>  <Scroll_Lock>             ;; scroll-lock-mode
>  <Scroll_Lock>             ;; scroll-lock-mode
>  <Scroll_Lock>             ;; scroll-lock-mode
>  <Scroll_Lock>             ;; scroll-lock-mode
>  C-h l                     ;; view-lossage
> 
> 
> > Does this also happen with emacs -Q?
> 
> Yes.  It also toggles scroll-lock-mode when the emacs window is
> selected.
> 
> > With a different terminal?
> 
> I don't use a terminal.  I use GUI Emacs through X11 forwarding in ssh.
> 
> I use MobaXTerm for this since the virus software on this machine has
> decided to block cygwin X (it's a work machine where I don't control the
> virus software.

Did you look at the configuration of MobaXTerm, whatever that is?
Maybe it is it that produces those Scroll_Lock keypresses, for some
reason?

If you cannot figure this out, just rebind Scroll_Lock 'ignore.