From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.windows Subject: Re: [h-e-w] strange behavior of emacs during search Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:18:47 +0300 Message-ID: <837e8cu9mw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1015591415.545.1563541850502@alum-prod-api-1.mit.edu> <83a7daunka.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="176134"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, help-emacs-windows@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 20 15:19:04 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hopGQ-000jf5-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:19:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51158 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hopGP-0004u3-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 09:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hopGL-0004qn-My; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 09:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hopGL-00027l-JP; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 09:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4595 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hopGK-0005rk-PS; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 09:18:57 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Bostjan Vilfan on Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:50:14 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121210 gmane.emacs.windows:6283 Archived-At: > From: Bostjan Vilfan > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:50:14 +0200 > > Thanks for your reply. Here are the answers to your questions: C-h l results in C-down-mouse-3- on the > message line; the emacs version is 26.2 ; emacs -Q results in the same behavior ( C-down-mouse-3- ) on > the message line. By the way in trying to reproduce the problem when answering your post I noticed I had to > provide a lot more inputs before the Edit menu appeared. Another observation: I am not even 100% sure that > emacs is the culprit; namely, in this situation (use of internal screen) I sometimes get erratic movements of > the cursor during which some part of the text gets changed; this type of behavior was observed at least in one > other situations (during the reading of mail in the Firefox window). I suspect some software unrelated to Emacs is installed on your laptop which kicks in after several C-s keypresses. Otherwise, I see no way of explaining how did C-down-mouse-3- appear.