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Article #939transient emacs bug
From: David Flanagan
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:43
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:43
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Version: 18.55.4 Host: Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.1.1 I typed ^X^FWidget<SPC> (I didn't think to do an immediate ^Hl to see if that was *really* what I typed, so I'm not 100% sure) Emacs should have displayed another buffer to display the (several) file completions in. It did a garbage collection (for what seemed slightly longer than usual), and returned with: Find file: ..^@.^@^@^@,^@,^ANK^@^X^@^HMakefile^@ I believe that the first "^@" was in fact a NUL character because when I hit RETURN, it went into dired mode on the directory .. I assume that the other carets in this string also introduce control characters. There was a file named "Makefile" in the current directory I wanted to read the initial file from. I cannot reproduce this bug, and I have never seen it before in nearly a year of constant daily use of this emacs executable. David Flanagan
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ora.com!david From: david@ora.com (David Flanagan) Subject: transient emacs bug Message-ID: <9301081943.AA00178@artemis.ora.com> Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Distribution: gnu Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:43:54 GMT Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Lines: 25