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[Janne Joensuu]

At one point while playing, I held 7 to move the cursor north-west - and the cursor started moving there on its own. I couldn't stop it. This was fortress more, and I could stop time, but it was strange and I didn't know what to do. Then I noticed NumLock was off. I put NumLock on, and pressed 7 again. That stopped it.

To reproduce it: Hold a movement button down. Put NumLock off. Release the movement button.
To stop the effect: Put NumLock on. Press the movement button that's on.

This is probably just a weird coincidence and not a but, but I thought to report it so that any others would not have to suffer from the confusion.

[DarkAnt]

I too have experienced this bug.

[Garthor]

That makes perfect sense, really: you're holding down the 7 key, then you turn off numlock and now you're releasing the home key.  Scrolling repeats from when you press a key down until you release it, and since you never release the 7 key, you'll never stop scrolling until you release it (which will require pressing it again, of course).

[Toady One]

DF would most likely think of it that way in any case.  In general, when you have a stuck key, pressing the same key (with the keyboard in the same state of caps/num/etc) should clear it.