Cursor locked in status line - no way out

Cursor locked in status line - no way out

[Thorsten]

hi List, 
I dont know how I did it, but I managed two times now to lock my cursor
in the status line with no way out but shutting down (the emacsclient). 
The cursor sits then close to the line-number symbol, and when I press
C-p or C-n the line number change (e.g. from L10 to L9 and L11), but
there is no visible cursor on the screen anymore. 
Hitting all the usual keys (C-g, ESC) did not help me out. 
Anybody knows what feature of Emacs I discovered here by some finger slipping
on the keyboard?

my system: 
"GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-02-07 on arch
Org-mode version 7.8.03
Ma Gnus v0.2"

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

RE: Cursor locked in status line - no way out

[Ludwig, Mark]

This sort of stuff is why tell my friends that I don't care to play computer games: everyday computer work can be entertaining enough.

(I have no idea how you did this, but I love your assumption that you stumbled onto some feature of Emacs.  I agree!)

Cheers,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+ludwig.mark=siemens.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Thorsten
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 10:11 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Cursor locked in status line - no way out

hi List, 
I dont know how I did it, but I managed two times now to lock my cursor
in the status line with no way out but shutting down (the emacsclient). 
The cursor sits then close to the line-number symbol, and when I press
C-p or C-n the line number change (e.g. from L10 to L9 and L11), but
there is no visible cursor on the screen anymore. 
Hitting all the usual keys (C-g, ESC) did not help me out. 
Anybody knows what feature of Emacs I discovered here by some finger slipping
on the keyboard?

my system: 
"GNU Emacs 24.0.93.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2012-02-07 on arch
Org-mode version 7.8.03
Ma Gnus v0.2"

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

Re: Cursor locked in status line - no way out

[suvayu ali]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 16:11, Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Anybody knows what feature of Emacs I discovered here by some finger slipping
> on the keyboard?

A bug maybe? Have you tried setting debug-on-error and debug-on-quit
to t? That should give you some hints.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Cursor locked in status line - no way out

[Thorsten]

suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 16:11, Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Anybody knows what feature of Emacs I discovered here by some finger
>> slipping
>> on the keyboard?
>
> A bug maybe? Have you tried setting debug-on-error and debug-on-quit
> to t? That should give you some hints.

maybe a bug, but a very rare species, and I have no Idea how to
replicate it. I will report when it happens again, and try to set the
debug variables then. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

Re: Cursor locked in status line - no way out

[suvayu ali]

Hi Thorsten,

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 23:23, Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> wrote:
> maybe a bug, but a very rare species, and I have no Idea how to
> replicate it. I will report when it happens again, and try to set the
> debug variables then.

I don't think you can set the variables after the fact. I suggest you
run emacs with at least[1] `debug-on-error' set to t all the time
until you resolve this issue.

GL

Footnotes:

[1] `debug-on-quit' set to t can be very annoying for daily use, but you
    can live with `debug-on-error' I believe.


-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.