From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-SPC C- weirdness Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:09:26 +0900 Message-ID: <871vzin1h5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87od2nqte7.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> <87ej3irfir.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221671446 28116 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2008 17:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Olson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 17 19:11:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kg0Ys-0006H2-5r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:11:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kg0Xq-0000Ai-3z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kg0XM-0008Qe-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kg0XI-0008Ok-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:09:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34236 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kg0XI-0008OX-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]:37147) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kg0X5-0002sA-9D; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.231.109.226.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.109.226] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Kg0Wv-0005Op-He; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:09:29 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C2DD4DFB4; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:09:26 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87ej3irfir.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (Michael Olson's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:52:28 -0700") Original-Lines: 19 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103922 Archived-At: Michael Olson writes: >> If you hold down C-SPC, it's eventually going to start auto-repeating >> (which would yield flashing messages like you see), though I imagine >> _should_ cause X to "cancel" the auto-repeat state of C-SPC >> (it does for me); if not, I guess that could be an X bug. > > I guess the more precise description of the problem is that C-SPC > autorepeats when held down, and it shouldn't. It didn't start doing > this until this week. Hmm, does this really have anything to do with Emacs though -- isn't it X that determines when/how to autorepeat? -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]