I'm running R using the ESS package (version 18.10.2, installed using package-list-packages) in Emacs 26.3 in MS Windows 10.
When I'm in an R console window (Emacs buffer named "*R*" where R is running) and I press C-c C-c using the right (not left) Control key, Emacs starts acting as though the Control key is being held down. For example, if I press C-c C-c <return> in the R console buffer using the right Control key, I get the message "<C-return> is undefined", and it keeps happening with further key presses (e.g. pressing p moves to the previous line). The problem doesn't happen if I press C-c C-c in the R console buffer using the left Control key. Even other programs (e.g. Notepad, Firefox) start acting as though Control is being pressed.
The "stuck" Control key can be "released" by pressing the left Control key.
The problem doesn't happen if I press C-c C-c (using either Control key) in an Emacs buffer with a .R file.
I normally use Vincent Goulet's modified version of Emacs, but the problem also happens with "ordinary" unmodified Emacs. In the steps below, I'm using the unmodified Emacs.
Steps to make the problem happen:
At the Windows command prompt, in the Emacs bin directory:
emacs -Q <return>
Type or copy the following into the *scratch* buffer:
(package-initialize)
(setq inferior-R-program-name "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.1/bin/x64/Rterm.exe")
Run the code in the *scratch* buffer:
M-x eval-buffer <return>
Start R:
M-x R <return> <return>
(This opens an R console buffer and takes you to it.)
Using the right Control key:
C-c C-c <return>
This gives the message "<C-return> is undefined", which shouldn't happen (it doesn't happen if the C-c C-c <return> is pressed using the left Control key).
Further key presses are treated as though Control is being held down. For example, pressing p acts like C-p.
Press the left Control key to go back to normal.
Additional information:
- The problem doesn't happen with Emacs 25.3.1 (with the same version of ESS).
- The problem also happens with the latest version of R (4.0.2).
- The problem also happens if inferior-ess-r-program is used in place of inferior-R-program-name in the steps above.
- I tried a different keyboard on the same computer, and the same thing happened. I also tried it on a different Windows 10 computer and the same thing happened.
Copied from M-x report-emacs-bug:
In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2019-08-29 built on CIRROCUMULUS
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.18363
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<C-return> is undefined
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Thanks,
Mark Seeto
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