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From: Matthew Crisanti <thrice@ipwnj00.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Holding Ctrl + f/b/p/n/etc. randomly prints the character
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:51:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <UHNVi.338$v%4.295@newsfe05.lga> (raw)

Whenever I hold down ctrl and f, for example, the caret will move 
forward how one would expect, but after moving 15 or so spaces it 
inserts an 'f' or two, then continues moving the caret forward while 
continuously adding 'f's at random intervals until I let go. This also 
happens with ctrl + b,n,p,v, and others, I'm sure. This is not only 
annoying, but also dangerous to my code, as sometimes I don't even 
notice when a character gets inserted until I try to compile. I'm 
assuming this is a common problem, since this happens to me both in 
gentoo and ubuntu, but I couldn't seem to come up with the correct 
search string in google to find the answer. I would really appreciate 
any help.

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-30 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-30 21:51 Matthew Crisanti [this message]
2007-10-31  9:39 ` Holding Ctrl + f/b/p/n/etc. randomly prints the character Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.2788.1193823588.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-31 20:59   ` Matthew Crisanti
2007-10-31 21:27     ` Joost Kremers
2007-10-31 23:18     ` Peter Dyballa

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