From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: guanxi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: mysterious (encoding?) problem Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:44:48 -0500 Organization: http://newsguy.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100045210 20278 80.91.229.6 (10 Nov 2004 00:06:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 10 01:06:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CRg0X-0004F8-00 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:06:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CRg8x-0003E6-6m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:15:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news2 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-103.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126470 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21862 I hope someone can solve this mystery. I suspect I'm hitting an odd key combination, but can't figure it out. Occasionally, maybe every other day, I run into this odd problem: No matter what letter I type, lower or uppercase, Emacs inserts a question mark "?". My hex editor and other text editors shows them as question marks, so it isn't a display issue. Other programs work fine. Exiting that instance of Emacs (even leaving other instances open) and loading a new instance with the same file fixes the problem. More mysterious details: * The numbers, 1-0, come out as, in order: !??§%:.;,/ * Shift+[1-0] outputs the numbers themselves: 1234567890 * M-f is interpreted as C-M-f (which my Windows hotkey to start Firefox). * M-> (end of buffer) is ignored -- nothing happens. * Most standard C- commands work. So while typing "n" outputs "?", typing C-n navigates normally. * IIRCC, with multiple instances of Emacs open, only one is typically affected. The other instances work fine. * Brief experience with the minibuffer suggests it behaves the same. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. It's not the end of the world, but it's annoying. guanxi