From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: move-beginning-of-line moves to the very beginning instead of where it should Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 22:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39216306-b47a-4a72-8f4a-f74255c333a1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410008951 1180 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2014 13:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 13:09:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 15:09:04 2014 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 1XQFjj-0002Il-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 15:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XQFjj-0000bL-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:09:03 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.24.8 with SMTP id q8mr9790745obf.25.1409980761491; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:19:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.51.17.69 with SMTP id gc5mr111252igd.0.1409980761393; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!uq10no10080756igb.0!news-out.google.com!aw9ni0igc.0!nntp.google.com!r2no15339864igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.117.144.130; posting-account=4BQPhQoAAAC2TdlGRjSyQyl2uIZddGX6 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.117.144.130 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:19:21 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207393 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:08:50 -0400 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:99672 Archived-At: When i type control-A (move-beginning-of-line) in a shell or in the minibuffer, it normally moves the insertion point right to where it would make sense to type (i.e., right after the prompt). However, sometimes it seems to lose its way, and when it does, it quits working everywhere (shell, minibuffer), and goes all the way to the beginning of the line, rather than right after the prompt. This happens on mac os x, with emacs 24.3.1 and with 22.1.1 (the one bundled with the mac). It takes from a day to a few weeks or so to show up. I've never had that experience with ubuntu, despite the fact that my usage is similar (using emacs continuously, and leaving it up for months). I've opened dribble files so that i can go back and try to see if i typed something funny to cause it. But what i type looks innocuous (all key combos i can recognize, at least the most recent few hundred). So i'm wondering what i'm doing that changes the meaning of move-beginning-of-line, and also how i can restore it to go to the position right after the prompt instead of the very beginning of the line. This happens on both 22.1.1 and 24.3.1, but is worse on 22.1.1 (where it makes escape-p malfunction in shell mode). I tried googling for this several times, but never found it. However i could not possibly be the only person who experiences it.) Thanks in advance for any pointers. dan