[3935] in Athena Bugs
A bug with emacs <--(please put the name of the program here)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Freeland K. Abbott)
Tue Jan 9 17:09:34 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 90 17:08:44 EST
From: Freeland K. Abbott <fabbott@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Program with which you had the problem:
Name of person who discovered the bug: Freeland Abbott
Their MIT phone number: x5-8414
Their MIT address: 454D Burton-Conner
Their Athena Login ID: fabbott
Name of consultant reporting bug: ----
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
Emacs now distiguishes between mouse-button and shift-mouse-button,
which is a real pain (try moving the cursor with caps lock on)
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
Especially in emacs, where Unix case-sensitivity won't force
lower-case use, it'd be good to have the shift-mouse-buttons do the
same thing as their "lowercase" equivalents. Picture someone making a
poster, say, where they'd want the caps lock on all the time.
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
Hit caps lock and try to do normal work, probably not just in emacs.
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Fix (if you know what it is):
Make the standard mouse keymap (or whatever the equivalent is called)
have, by default, shift-mouse identical to just mousing. If people
then customize that, it's their job to keep it straight.
