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Article #98901How to put emacs in a weird state
From: Eric Hanchrow
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 02:48
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 02:48
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GNU Emacs 18.56.1 of Tue Jan 22 1991 on ptl (berkeley-unix).
(SunOS 4.0.3c on Sparc 1)
Start an anvarnished Emacs.
% emacs -q
Enable recursive minibuffers.
( s e t q SPC e n a b l e - r e c M-TAB SPC t ) LFD
Enter the weird state by putting the minibuffer in text-mode. Notice
two `M-x's in a row.
M-x M-x t e x t RET
Demonstrate the weirdness of the state by observing that the `M-x'
prompt in the minibuffer does not go away, no matter how many times
you hit `keyboard-quit'.
C-g C-g C-g C-g
Demonstrate the apparant benignness (is that a word?) of the weird
state by going merrily about your business.
C-x o D e a r SPC N o r a : RET RET L o v e , SPC N i c k RET
C-x C-w l o v e - l e t t e r RET C-x C-c
I am not sure this is really a bug. As far as I can tell, this
behavior doesn't prevent you from getting any work done, but it's
pretty disconcerting if you don't expect it.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,861ed42e2bdbe5b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-01-29 18:48:24 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!AI.MIT.EDU!yamada-sun!eric From: yamada-sun!eric@AI.MIT.EDU (Eric Hanchrow) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: How to put emacs in a weird state Message-ID: <9101300248.AA17569@> Date: 30 Jan 91 02:48:24 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 32 Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu