From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gordon Beaton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what mode?: double-quote yields nothing until next keystroke; how to turn off? Date: 26 Nov 2007 19:42:25 GMT Organization: - Message-ID: <474b21a1$0$27813$8404b019@news.wineasy.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196109639 27770 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2007 20:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 21:40:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iwkl1-0005Us-GR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:40:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwkkm-0002qi-4U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!uio.no!fi.sn.net!newsfeed1.fi.sn.net!news.song.fi!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-No-Productlinks: yes User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cube.smaltan.org Original-X-Trace: 1196106145 news.wineasy.se 27813 195.42.215.17:62533 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@tdcsong.se Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154123 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49558 Archived-At: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:10:34 -0800 (PST), Daniel B. wrote: > Somehow I keep accidentally getting Emacs into a mode in which a > double-quote keystroke yields nothing until > > I press another key, at which time Emacs inserts the two characters > I meant (or one character composed from them). > > What mode is this? (Where is its documentation? I haven't had any > luck googling and otherwise looking for it.) > > How do I control that mode? > > Mainly, how do I turn it back off (or disable it entirely)? > > Also, how did I probably activate it? That used to happen to me quite often, until I wrote this: (defadvice toggle-input-method (around confirm-toggle-input-method activate) "Prevents user from accidently enabling mule-input-method by requiring confirmation" (if (or current-input-method (ad-get-arg 0) (y-or-n-p "Turn on mule-input-method [C-\\]? ")) ad-do-it) (message nil)) /gordon --