Re: Mark

[Hugh Mayfield]

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.

> 
> 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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