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#33571
26.1.90; Artifacts in echo area
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Reported by: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 03:18:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: moreinfo, wontfix
Found in version 26.1.90
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Live System User wrote:
>> I am seeing:
>>
>> C-g-
>>
>> remaining in the echo area (please note trailing hyphen "-") in
>> Emacs 27.
>
> If I run 'emacs -Q' and type C-g, I see "Quit" in the echo area.
Sorry, I meant to type:
C-c g-
which I have bound to "magit-status":
(defadvice magit-status (around magit-fullscreen activate)
(window-configuration-to-register :magit-fullscreen)
ad-do-it
(delete-other-windows))
(global-set-key "\C-c\g" 'magit-status)
>
> Perhaps you meant "C-c"? If I run 'emacs -Q' and type C-c and wait, I
> see "C-c-"
> in the echo area (with the trailing hyphen). However, that's normal
> and the behavior of Emacs hasn't changed there in quite some time. The
> trailing hyphen advises the user to type another keystroke in that
> context.
>
> In the past, Emacs has had problems where the echo area wasn't cleared
> properly, and it sounds like you're seeing a bug in that
> area. However, I doubt whether any such bug is related to my recent
> changes to keyboard.c in the emacs-26 branch. As Eli suggested, to
> debug your problem we'll need a complete stand-alone recipe for
> reproducing your problem, starting from 'emacs -Q'.
I'll try to get a minimal configuration.
Thanks.
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