From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Storrs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Keys spontaneously rebinding themselves Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:01:12 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378242226 9967 80.91.229.3 (3 Sep 2013 21:03:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 21:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 03 23:03:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VGxlK-0007EV-D5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:03:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGxk6-00083l-Mj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGxjM-0007y1-CO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGxis-0002v4-05 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c01::229]:61573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGxir-0002uk-Po for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rp2so6542472pbb.0 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:01:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hDbxXMNsVdSmd1JNI3hLvEGBFjTV8zry+tjoIhHmPAI=; b=KXPDtDPhZZcmM2VUxL8uoWrba+hcO6oU2kPcspr6AAi/YZeB/iHRkttzbrcBBFtb9d 6kX3L/9meRe7nPU8da1zHSgauYfDDtt2Qq+yWIHVTldn1z54Rn6Vv0GnrkUOO14dT58s umlOTsRwPi2O1ASnc8vahP6r77e9shBy3YaMH1IZ6ot0wg4ua1ivF7P+qE6Hu1LJRPAk bx7vxo3+1K6z3v8ZZfqI1BEuEedBrR8NPfvMqwUEo0ZcdPamMkgDF9NZv4BJkVsqB9Rm Idb/W1GepzOxYai46lKVC9iHESLcaYQycQ4PXvdMOJgaFBsQeGQoHpsikD7AvEHU3TG4 LKhg== X-Received: by 10.68.229.2 with SMTP id sm2mr33229847pbc.68.1378242072810; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.68.153.137 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:01:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c01::229 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93227 Archived-At: You're exactly right. When I started up with -q it worked perfectly. I experimented with disabling / reenabling certain files and seeing when the issue came back, but it didn't -- yet another piece of weirdness, but I'll take it. Oorah! Thanks, Peter. Dave On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote= : > > Am 03.09.2013 um 18:24 schrieb David Storrs: > >> OSX 10.6.8 >> (emacs-version) =3D> "GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin) of 2011-06-07 >> on b1030.apple.com" > > This is the GNU Emacs from Apple that comes with Mac OS X, the one withou= t any windowing support. It's also possible that the terminal emulation you= are using as host for GNU Emacs is doing some nonsense, sending the wrong = characters. C-h l, in case you succeed in inputting these two, will show yo= u what GNU Emacs has received until then. > > With Snow Leopard you can try to restore /usr/bin/emacs-undumped and /usr= /bin/emacs from a Time Machine backup. > > You can also try to launch GNU Emacs with the options -q or -Q. Then GNU = Emacs will not load init files, which might contain Elisp code to "rebind t= he keys". > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise a= s a man's head. >