From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: grischka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Code Turns to Gibberish Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:58:07 +0100 Message-ID: <4999D35F.5070801@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234817943 8874 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2009 20:59:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rebirf@gmail.com To: pjb@informatimago.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 16 22:00:18 2009 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 1LZAZX-00087Y-9s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:00:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LZAYD-0007yq-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LZAXt-0007yA-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LZAXs-0007xs-N7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52723 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LZAXs-0007xp-Iz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49685) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZAXr-00083x-Tm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2009 20:58:15 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A08020.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.1.4]) [87.160.128.32] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 16 Feb 2009 21:58:15 +0100 X-Authenticated: #18588216 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19RNSlZskNRYSsV2SSL9791ktdsAEssoWL7buJDPj gbUwQkcy1NInYw User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Original-References: 871vtymf3g.fsf@galatea.local X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.72 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:62152 Archived-At: > > Hi I've been using emacs for c++ and c. the problem I have is that > > sometimes my code will just turn into random characters. If I try to > > open the file in a text editor it just won't open but if I open it in > > emacs it displays a bunch of @'s and ^, says "init" a lot. before it > > would happen when I saved the program, closed it, and tried to reopen. > > This time it happened when I was in the middle of writing the > > code..any help? > > I would suspect a bad computer, at least a bad RAM. > Try to change the computer or at least the RAM. It could be that but then again such computer would (not necessarily but very likely) show other severe symptoms, like random freezes or crashes. If that is not the case then it's more likely emacs itself corrupting it's own memory contents. --- grischka