[comp.emacs] Minor GNU Emacs 18.44 strangeness on RT.

earleh@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Earle R. Horton) (04/20/88)

GNU Emacs, 18.44, does this on our IBM RTs running 4.3 BSD:

--**-Emacs: /tmp/Re01422          (Text Fill)----All--------------------------
Save file /tmp/Re01422? (y or n) \274
                                 ^
                                 |
(I typed 'y' here.)--------------

Anybody know what kind of Gremlin this is?
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karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (04/21/88)

earleh@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU writes:
   Save file /tmp/Re01422? (y or n) \274
				    ^
   (I typed 'y' here.)--------------|

   Anybody know what kind of Gremlin this is?

Were you holding down a Meta key?  What you got is a M-y, instead of a
plain y.

Just asking the obvious...