From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what mode?: double-quote yields nothing until next keystroke; how to turn off? Date: 26 Nov 2007 20:24:03 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196109680 27921 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2007 20:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:41:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 21:41:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iwkla-0005iP-EO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwklL-0003AJ-En for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:41:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net aLL7WYxUdNU5k8O9R7u6Kw2JB1lV9TY6gQqgDUo+9k7CKZa2iQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:zywwICeW2xkTonCNYBHgoJddOII= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154127 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49559 Archived-At: Daniel B. wrote: > (It does not appear to be something in Windows. When > one Emacs instance is exhibiting those symptoms, I can > > run another copy of Emacs and that second copy works > normally.) i suspect it *is* a feature of windows. in (modern versions of) windows, keyboard settings are window-dependent. that is, you can have setting X for one window, and setting Y for another. check the internationalisation settings in windows, and see if a specific key combo is set for switching keyboard layouts. my bet is there is, and i suspect you're accidentally typing it. the default key combo is left alt+left shift key, a combo that you may sometimes need for Emacs to type e.g. M-< or M->. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)