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Death via Rot13

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From: Jim Roskind
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 01:13
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It would appear that too much use of rot13 causes a permanent rot13
translation to be present in all windows, and it appears (to me) to be
impossible to "get out of this" state.

To instigate the bug:

Don't do the following in your current emacs.  I don't know of anyway
to restore the emacs other than terminating it.

1) Start emacs 
2) Display a buffer of text (example: ctrl-x f to see current
directory)
3) Do a rot13-other-window command.
4) Move into the rot13 buffer (containing the rot13 jive)
5) Do another rot13 (in the already rot13 buffer)
Any file you attempt to view will now be in rot13 mode, and I can't
figure out how to get out.  The only "cleartext" you'll see is in the
command buffer, where you can type.


I'm currently using emacs version 19.24.1 on a Solaris platform,
displaying remotely on an Xterm.  I noted the same bug under 19.21 

I'd be glad to give you more details about our installation, but I
suspect that the bug is *very* reproducible.  ...of course... maybe
you folks can tell me how to get out of this mode more gracefully than
a C-x C-c. ;-)

Jim

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