GNU bug report logs - #6564
23.2; emacs gets stuck in the erase mode

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Levit <mllevit <at> web.de>

Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 18:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, wontfix

Found in version 23.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Levit <mllevit <at> web.de>
Cc: 6564 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6564: 23.2; emacs gets stuck in the erase mode
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:49:46 -0400

Michael Levit wrote:

>
> I'm starting emacs from tcsh running cygwin-X on Windows 7.
>
> Typing ctrl-k (or ctrl-backspace) results in everything in the active
> emacs buffer being deleted word by word. I can only stop that by
> rightclicking on the cygwin-x icon in the task bar.
>
> See the long sequence of C-k below? I have only pressed it once.

This is very weird. Does it still happen?
I would have guessed a stuck keyboard, but you said it only happened
with Emacs.
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 171 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.