From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jester@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange "1;2600;0c" sequence in startup (message-mode?) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Oxford University Press Message-ID: References: <8739l51gce.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306267714 11872 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2011 20:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:08:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 22:08:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QOxu2-00061F-I4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 22:08:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QOxu1-0001OS-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 16:08:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1303817390 17407 166.84.1.2 (26 Apr 2011 11:29:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:29:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186722 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:81053 Archived-At: In article <8739l51gce.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>, David Kastrup wrote: >jester@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower) writes: > >> I have recently been seeing a strange sequence of characters when I >> start Emacs up to send a message, either when sending a new message, >> or replying to an existing one. I believe that this started when I >> began to use message-mode. Typically it will be "1;2600;0c", inserted >> at the start of a message, but I have noticed other numbers close to >> "2600" in the middle section. > >This looks similar to cursor positioning control sequences. Are you >using Emacs on a character terminal rather than in graphical mode? Yes, I am--when this happens I'm ssh'd into a Unix shell, and am interacting with Emacs there, not in an X display. Er, so what does this mean in terms of trying to fix it? It's a relatively new phenomenon. Jesse Sheidlower