From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270687AbTGUTkl (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:40:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270683AbTGUTkh (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:40:37 -0400 Received: from 206-158-102-129.prx.blacksburg.ntc-com.net ([206.158.102.129]:4015 "EHLO wombat.ghz.cc") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270682AbTGUTkb (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:40:31 -0400 Message-ID: <40395.216.12.38.216.1058817334.squirrel@www.ghz.cc> In-Reply-To: <20030721193748.GC436@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200307210928.h6L9SUfx000613@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20030721193748.GC436@elf.ucw.cz> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:55:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: 2.6.0: characters repeated when *pasting*?! From: "Charles Lepple" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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). -- Charles Lepple http://www.ghz.cc/charles/