tomt@maui.coral.com (Tom Tulinsky) (12/11/90)
I'm typing a letter in Mail mode. I try to do C-x C-n to set a goal
column. Now I'm getting beeps and my command line says `
"Please type y, n, or space"
Why? What are the consequences? I type space. It seemed safest. The
letter disappears.
This happened in Epoch, although it would probably be the same in Emacs.
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NETWORKS bashford@scripps.edu (Don Bashford) (12/13/90)
In article <9012111501.AA09140@maui.coral.com> tomt@maui.coral.com (Tom Tulinsky) writes: > >I'm typing a letter in Mail mode. I try to do C-x C-n to set a goal >column. Now I'm getting beeps and my command line says ` > "Please type y, n, or space" >Why? What are the consequences? I type space. It seemed safest. The >letter disappears. > >This happened in Epoch, although it would probably be the same in Emacs. > > Coral > * ** Tom Tulinsky 508 460-6010 > * ** Coral Network Corporation fax 508 481-6258 >* ** 734 Forest St net: tomt@coral.com > *** Marlboro, MA 01752 > ** U S A >********* >NETWORKS Nope, not in my emacs-18.55 on a Sparc. When I type C-x n (which is what I suspect you did rather than C-x C-n) I get a help window which says: You have typed C-x n, invoking disabled command narrow-to-region: Restrict editing in this buffer to the current region. The rest of the text becomes temporarily invisible and untouchable but is not deleted; if you save the buffer in a file, the invisible text is included in the file. C-x w makes all visible again. You can now type Space to try the command just this once, but leave it disabled, Y to try it and enable it (no questions if you use it again), N to do nothing (command remains disabled). and the minibuffer says, "Please type y, n, or space" So, you see, your letter didn't really get clobbered, you could have got it back by typing C-x w. Somehow, I expect you will still hate emacs, but for Epoch fans, this sounds like an Epoch-bug worth looking into. Cheers, Don Bashford
bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Barr3y Jaspan") (12/16/90)
[8905] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Bug_GNU_Emacs 12/15/90 12:56 (27 lines) Date: 12 Dec 90 21:55:09 GMT From: augean!sibyl!ian@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Ian Dall) In article <1990Dec11.173151.5117@athena.mit.edu> bjaspan@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan) writes: -You almost certainly typed "C-x n" instead, and emacs almost certainly -showed you the following message: - -"You have typed C-x n, invoking the disabled command narrow-to-region.: But this *does* raise the issue of seeing all the prompt at once. I know the minibuffer does horizontal scrolling, [ ... ] In the version of emacs we are using (18.54), it splits puts the "You have typed FOOBAR, invoking the disabled command ..." message in a different window, splitting the current window if necessary. So the only time you wouldn't see at least a good portion of the message would be if you already had several windows on the screen, and all of them were too small to display more than a line or two. If that's the case, however, you probably know enough about emacs to handle the situation. :-) Barr3y
worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (12/18/90)
I'm typing a letter in Mail mode. I try to do C-x C-n to set a goal
column. Now I'm getting beeps and my command line says:
"Please type y, n, or space"
Well, first you didn't check (C-h l) to see what you actually typed,
rather than what you thought you typed, otherwise you'd have
discovered that you typed C-x n rather than C-x C-n. Next time Emacs
does something weird, use C-h l and figure out what you really did.
Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com
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Reality is what you can get away with.