Re: C-SPC C-<left> weirdness

[Michael Olson]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:
>>> If you hold down C-SPC, it's eventually going to start
>>> auto-repeating (which would yield flashing messages like you see),
>>> though I imagine <left> _should_ cause X to "cancel" the auto-repeat
>>> state of C-SPC (it does for me); if not, I guess that could be an X
>>> bug.
>>
>> I guess the more precise description of the problem is that C-SPC
>> autorepeats when held down, and it shouldn't.  It didn't start doing
>> this until this week.
>
> Hmm, does this really have anything to do with Emacs though --
> isn't it X that determines when/how to autorepeat?

On my other machine, I am noticing that C-SPC does autorepeat, but not
when I hit C-SPC <left> and hold C-SPC.  This machine has an older
version of X.  So I guess it's an X bug.  I'm not sure how to go about
reporting this to the X.org maintainers.

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