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ernest
Feb 4, 2011, 9:25:31 AM2/4/11
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Hi,
Recently, I've been compelled to use the Windows (XP) operating
system.
The problem I have is that every now and then I change emacs's
keyboard
layout by accident. Usually it switches to US layout, some times to
other
layouts. It must be some combination of keys, I still haven't figured
out which ones. Once it's changed I cannot fix it or I don't know how
to fix it.
I select the default keyboard layout or the Spanish layout on the
menu, but
nothing happens. I have to restart emacs every time!
Any idea how I can avoid this? This is specific to emacs, other
programs
are not affected. I also use emacs on GNU/Linux and never had this
problem. Cheers.
--
Ernest
Recently, I've been compelled to use the Windows (XP) operating
system.
The problem I have is that every now and then I change emacs's
keyboard
layout by accident. Usually it switches to US layout, some times to
other
layouts. It must be some combination of keys, I still haven't figured
out which ones. Once it's changed I cannot fix it or I don't know how
to fix it.
I select the default keyboard layout or the Spanish layout on the
menu, but
nothing happens. I have to restart emacs every time!
Any idea how I can avoid this? This is specific to emacs, other
programs
are not affected. I also use emacs on GNU/Linux and never had this
problem. Cheers.
--
Ernest
Cecilio Pardo
Feb 6, 2011, 5:48:03 AM2/6/11
to ernest, help-gn...@gnu.org
You are probably pressing and releasing shift+alt, which switches
keyboard language. Do that again to switch back. You can disable this
key combination in windows' control panel.
--
Cecilio Pardo.
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Jason Rumney
Feb 7, 2011, 12:30:56 AM2/7/11
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<blockquote>It was definitely caused within emacs, not by windoze</blockquote>
<p>
What makes you so sure of that? The keyboard layout is under control of the operating system, not Emacs. And any similar feature within Emacs (such as viper-mode) is not easily triggered.
</p>
<p>
What makes you so sure of that? The keyboard layout is under control of the operating system, not Emacs. And any similar feature within Emacs (such as viper-mode) is not easily triggered.
</p>
Hilary
Feb 7, 2011, 7:15:40 AM2/7/11
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Emacs was the only application affected, and closing and restarting it
(without changing any windoze settings) cured the problem.
--
Hilary
Ilya Zakharevich
Feb 7, 2011, 5:34:54 PM2/7/11
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BS. Keyboard layout is per-application (at least on Win7).
Just make the layout visible on the taskbar - then you can use mouse
to switch back if it got accidentally mis-set. I think it is called
the "language bar" or some such...
Hope this helps,
Ilya
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ernest
Feb 8, 2011, 8:44:00 AM2/8/11
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On 6 Feb, 11:48, Cecilio Pardo <cpa...@imayhem.com> wrote:
> You are probably pressing and releasing shift+alt, which switches
> keyboard language. Do that again to switch back. You can disable this
> key combination in windows' control panel.
> You are probably pressing and releasing shift+alt, which switches
> keyboard language. Do that again to switch back. You can disable this
> key combination in windows' control panel.
It was that. Alt+Shift switches to US layout. Pressing Alt+Shift again
switches to another layout, And pressing again switches back to the
original layout.
Thank God I've found out, it was driving me mad :)
--
Ernest
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