Yaoyuan writes: > try to avoid load your emacs init file, is that ok ? and what's > your version of emacs and os :)? I found these: emacs -Q --- no problem. Since I can't tell it to load Gnus automatically so no further test. emacs -q --- first character is not inserted. emacs -q --no-splash --- first character is inserted. emacs (i.e. with all configurations) --- first character is inserted (I've set inhibit-startup-screen t), but emacsclient -c -e '(gnus)' will trigger this problem. Seems Gnus did something else. So does emacsclient -c -e '(org-agenda)'. Thank you. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591