Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[Sarir Khamsi]

For some reason, when I want to set mark, I now have to press C-SPC
twice. This just started happening recently and I don't know what
changed on my system (WinXP/SP1, GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1). This appears to
be the same for C-@, that is, I need to press it twice for set
mark. Any ideas?  Thanks.

Sarir

Re: Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[Mathias Dahl]

Sarir Khamsi <sarir.khamsi@raytheon.com> writes:

> For some reason, when I want to set mark, I now have to press C-SPC
> twice. This just started happening recently and I don't know what
> changed on my system (WinXP/SP1, GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1). This appears to
> be the same for C-@, that is, I need to press it twice for set
> mark. Any ideas?  Thanks.

If you start up emacs with --no-init-file, does it behave
the same?

/Mathias

Re: Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[Sarir Khamsi]

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com> writes:

> If you start up emacs with --no-init-file, does it behave
> the same?

No...it works fine without the init file. I should have tried that
before. It still does not make much sense, but I will keep looking
into my .emacs file for clues.

Re: Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[Kevin Rodgers]

Sarir Khamsi wrote:
>>If you start up emacs with --no-init-file, does it behave
>>the same?
> 
> No...it works fine without the init file. I should have tried that
> before. It still does not make much sense, but I will keep looking
> into my .emacs file for clues.

Check your installation's default.el[c] file as well.  you can find it
with `M-x locate-library RET default RET'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[Sarir Khamsi]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Check your installation's default.el[c] file as well.  you can find it
> with `M-x locate-library RET default RET'.

Thanks.

It turns out that it some package I was loading that caused the
problem. I had to "single-step" through my .emacs file to see where
the problem started happening. All is well...the universe is as it
should be (well, at least mine).

Sarir

Re: Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[roodwriter]

Sarir Khamsi wrote:

> For some reason, when I want to set mark, I now have to press C-SPC
> twice. This just started happening recently and I don't know what
> changed on my system (WinXP/SP1, GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1). This appears to
> be the same for C-@, that is, I need to press it twice for set
> mark. Any ideas?  Thanks.
> 
> Sarir

Are you using refill-mode? I find I have to do this when I'm using
refill-mode (which is nearly all the time.) My guess is the mode moves
text which upsets the mark. I haven't had the problem in any other
text mode and don't know of any fix beyond hitting C-space twice.


--Rod 
Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical Consumers"
and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." Both are available at
http://www.rodwriterpublishing.com/index.html.

To reply take the extra "o" out of the name.

Re: Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[Sarir Khamsi]

"roodwriter@core.com" <roodwriter@core.com> writes:

> Are you using refill-mode? I find I have to do this when I'm using
> refill-mode (which is nearly all the time.) My guess is the mode moves
> text which upsets the mark. I haven't had the problem in any other
> text mode and don't know of any fix beyond hitting C-space twice.

I was using some package for C++ from
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/courses/CS307a/Templates/c++.el and that seemed
to be what was causing the problem. When I removed it, C-SPC worked
fine. I haven't looked into what in that package was causing the exact
problem.

Sarir

Re: Setting mark now takes an extra keystroke

[Johan Bockgård]

Sarir Khamsi <sarir.khamsi@raytheon.com> writes:

> I was using some package for C++ from
> http://www.csd.uwo.ca/courses/CS307a/Templates/c++.el and that
> seemed to be what was causing the problem.

Yes, the very first paragraph in the file explains this.

-- 
Johan Bockgård