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From: Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Perplexing dired behavior on "R": "pinging..."
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:08:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mtsurz5.fsf@stevenarntson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4fa03f9c-07b4-4fbf-9b6a-901f33bd2599@default

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Using emacs 24.4.1.
>> 
>> In a dired buffer, I "% m" to mark all files containing ".org". The
>> first of these, for instance, is called "animals.org". Once the
>> files
>> are marked, I intend to move them to a new directory, and I type
>> "R". Then the minibuffer says,
>> 
>> "Pinging animals.org (Non-profit Organization)..."
>
> Good one!  If you get that behavior after you start Emacs
> using `emacs -Q' (no init file) then please file that as a bug:
> `M-x report-emacs-bug'.  Sounds like it is picking up the
> URL at point and trying to get to it.  Quite a "feature"!

Restarting with -Q appeared to fix the problem. However, then when I
restarted again normally, the problem remained fixed! So I'm left
thinking that what I really needed to do was restart. Lesson learned ...

steven




  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-21 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-20  2:56 Perplexing dired behavior on "R": "pinging..." Steven Arntson
2014-11-20  3:15 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-21 22:08   ` Steven Arntson [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.14121.1416452216.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-20 11:15 ` Damien Wyart

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