From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-k messes up display -- have to redraw-display Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:14:05 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <9d56d493-eaf4-43ab-9fde-246be124f190@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470154534 5335 195.159.176.226 (2 Aug 2016 16:15:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:15:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 02 18:15:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bUcLq-000196-4U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:15:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57615 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bUcLm-0003rA-PO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:15:26 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder2.usenet.farm!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="14206"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+j/5Vbxy4VvXLDWQhzCZvi" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ASg8PNlNIhgGbgKuj0ZBK2hRelQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218702 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:111049 Archived-At: In article <9d56d493-eaf4-43ab-9fde-246be124f190@googlegroups.com>, rob.dunne@gmail.com wrote: > Hi emacs group, > > I am have a problem on a new machine. > When I type C-k, the display is mucked up. The next line in the file is > repeated > multiple times. I have to use "M-x redraw-display" to fix it. > > The problem happens in .Rnw, and .s file (but perhaps not all other files). > > I can't find anything on the web about this problem. > > My question is > > 1) how can I fix it, or > 2) how can I get more information about the problem? There in nothing in the > messages buffer > 3) can you show me how to make C-k delete to the end of a line and then call > redraw-display? Not a neat thing to do, but better than what I am doing now Usually problems like this mean that the $TERM environment variable is incorrect, so it's not sending the proper control sequences for your terminal. > > > Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7) of 2014-03-08 on > lamiak, modified by Debian > > > Bye > R -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***