double/single quotes strange behavior

double/single quotes strange behavior

[billy]

Some how I manage to get emacs/terminal into a mode where if I type a "
or a ' it doesn't display or move the cursor until I hit another
character.  I'm using PC  and PuTTY as my interface to a HPUX server.
If I exit hpux then reenter the problem goes away. the doulbe and
single quote act the same in this box.

If this is a feature of the PC and/or hpux, why des it come and go.

Re: double/single quotes strange behavior

[Kevin Rodgers]

billy wrote:
> Some how I manage to get emacs/terminal into a mode where if I type a "
> or a ' it doesn't display or move the cursor until I hit another
> character.  I'm using PC  and PuTTY as my interface to a HPUX server.
> If I exit hpux then reenter the problem goes away. the doulbe and
> single quote act the same in this box.
> 
> If this is a feature of the PC and/or hpux, why des it come and go.

If it's an Emacs issue, it could be that the quote characters have been
defined as prefix keys.  The next time the problem occurs, try the
`C-h m' and `C-h b' commands, and post the results.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: double/single quotes strange behavior

[David Kastrup]

"billy" <bp1497@att.com> writes:

> Some how I manage to get emacs/terminal into a mode where if I type a "
> or a ' it doesn't display or move the cursor until I hit another
> character.  I'm using PC  and PuTTY as my interface to a HPUX server.
> If I exit hpux then reenter the problem goes away. the doulbe and
> single quote act the same in this box.
>
> If this is a feature of the PC and/or hpux, why des it come and go.

Could be that you hit C-\, could be that you use "dead keys" in your
terminal setup.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: double/single quotes strange behavior

[Wim Oudshoorn]

"billy" <bp1497@att.com> writes:

> Some how I manage to get emacs/terminal into a mode where if I type a "
> or a ' it doesn't display or move the cursor until I hit another
> character.  I'm using PC  and PuTTY as my interface to a HPUX server.
> If I exit hpux then reenter the problem goes away. the doulbe and
> single quote act the same in this box.
>
> If this is a feature of the PC and/or hpux, why des it come and go.

This is a long shot, but it could be that pressing ALT-SHIFT 
(and nothing else) on windows does change the keyboard layout/language 
used by windows.  You might see this in the taskbar (the blue rectangle
witht two letter language code).  It seems that this setting can be
program dependend so closing down PuTTY and restarting it will
make the problem go away until you hit the magic key combination again.

Wim Oudshoorn.