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28.2; Holding capslock key on colemak layout does not keep erasing

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Nikita Romanyuk <kelvium <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 57904 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57904: 28.2; Holding capslock key on colemak layout does not keep erasing
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:19:19 +0800

Nikita Romanyuk <kelvium <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:42:37 +0300
> Message-ID: <87edw9deqq.fsf <at> yahoo.com>
> --text follows this line--
>
> I'm running GNU/Emacs on Wayland wlroots compositor Sway, via Xwayland
> and I'm using colemak keyboard layout which has Caps-lock key bound to
> Backspace. I expect holding Caps-lock to behave the same as holding
> Backspace. However, it does not. When I hold Backspace it starts erasing
> text, until I unhold it. But when I hold Caps-lock key, it erases one
> single character and stops. This is incorrect.

Do the extra <backspace> events you expect reach Emacs?  You can check
by running the following code:

  (while t (message "%s %s" (float-time) (read-char)))

and checking to see if the timestamp increases while Caps Lock is held
down.

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