ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram) (04/07/88)
GNU Emacs 18.48.0 of Sun Feb 7 1988 on leo.ring.cs.yale.edu (domain/ix)
When you exit gnews 1.4, the first keystroke you hit after that is
interpreted incorrectly. Thereafter, subsequent keystrokes are interpreted
correctly. For example, after you exit gnews, it puts you in the buffer you
were in earlier. Now if you do a describe-key ' ' (space), it says SPC runs
news-default (the binding of SPC in news-mode). If you do the describe-key
again, it gives you the correct binding for SPC.
Also, if after exiting gnews, you eval 'mode-name', it says "News". If you
eval it again, it gives you the correct name.
It looks like the "News" mode used by gnews is still applicable to the buffer
it switches you to for one more keystroke. How could this happen, and how
does one fix it?
A similar problem arises when gnews enters index-mode. The first keystroke
after entering index-mode is interpreted w.r.t. the group-mode keymap, after
which keys are interpreted correctly using index-mode-map.
Any clues? I'm getting used to hitting something innocuous like C-l in these
situations, but I don't understand why this should happen in the first place.
If the cursor is in a buffer, shouldn't any keystroke in that buffer be
interpreted w.r.t. that buffer's keymap? The mode line shows the mode name
correctly.
-- Ashwin.
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