[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bug in emacs with latest Hipster

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 08:44:54PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Is the behavior the same starting emacs with `emacs -Q -nw'?

Yes, I've tried both `-Q' and `-q', with the same extraneous
characters appearing.

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

No, they are unchanged.

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

Ah, that worked.  Things that I paste in look normal with emacs
running within an xterm.  That may be a workaround for me.  I was
thinking of reverting to emacs-24 until they fix this bug.


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