[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bug in emacs with latest Hipster

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Sat Jun 24 00:44:54 UTC 2017


Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 05:35:50PM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>> On 06/23/17 04:49 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
>> >I've always used emacs as my editor, but when I tried it on a recent
>> >Hipster, I got a surprise.  It happens when I run emacs in curses
>> >mode, and when I paste some text into the emacs window, inside a
>> >gnome-terminal window.
>> 
>> Same emacs here. Don't see this behavior. But I don't use emacs routinely.
>
> You have to make a remote connection to the Hipster machine.  I use
> rlogin, but ssh would work as well.  `emacs -nw' might also work, or
> you can unset DISPLAY .  I don't have a graphic console on that
> machine, so that's the only way I can run emacs.  It will paste at the
> cursor, the same as if you typed the phrase.

Is the behavior the same starting emacs with `emacs -Q -nw'?

Any changes in environment settings such as LANG and its cousins?

If you try the same thing from a real McCoy xterm, is the behavior the
same? 




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