From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: First character beeps screen sometimes Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:23:39 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331328236 1328 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2012 21:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:23:56 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Aaron Meurer'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 22:23:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S67I3-00060N-4W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:23:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S67I2-000881-Fj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:23:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S67Hx-00087w-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S67Hw-0003OL-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:23:49 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:34201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S67Hw-0003Mi-3h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:23:48 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q29LNhxf027535 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:23:44 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q29LNgqR028033 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:23:43 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt113.oracle.com (abhmt113.oracle.com [141.146.116.65]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q29LNgxf002673; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:23:42 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.38.221) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:23:42 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Thread-Index: Acz+OZ+IjfEa9ONrQ3umQ/5ChAu9vwAAMgTw X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4F5A74E0.00E5,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83992 Archived-At: > I could use some help debugging an annoying problem. Sometimes when I > start emacs, When you start or later? Further on you seem to suggest it happens well after startup. > the first character I type is not inserted, but rather, > causes the screen to flash.... > it happens almost every time I edit a commit message after making a > commit in a git repository (but not every time). This probably won't help, but have you checked that Emacs is not expecting you to answer something like `y-or-n-p'? If you type something it doesn't want that will result in a beep (visible or audible).