Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:55:34 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: 2.6.0: characters repeated when *pasting*?! | From | "Charles Lepple" <> |
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Pavel Machek said: > Hi! > >> > I copied text ole.rohne@cern.ch (using gpm), pasted it to emacs (right >> > mouse button) in another console and it came out as >> > oooooole.rohne@cern.ch. That looks extremely weird and suggests that >> > repeated characters are indeed software problem. >> > >> > Its not reproducible, and nothing interesting in logs :-(. >> >> Hmmm, are you sure you hadn't pressed meta-6 before pasting it in? > > I can't be sure... I do not think I pressed that, but it certainly is > possible that I wanted to switch consoles and pressed that by mistake.
you can use "C-h l" (or "F1 l") next time to see emacs' idea of the last few keystrokes. I'm guessing it was meta-6 or ctrl-u (if it was only four 'o's).
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