geoff@HSCFVAX.HARVARD.EDU (Geoffrey Knauth) (02/25/89)
"GNU Emacs 18.49.8 of Wed Oct 14 1987 on sunfs3 (berkeley-unix)" I have am currently viewing 2 files, as well as sending this message. My mode line looks like this: --**-Emacs: *mail* 10:47am 0.28[5] [[[(Mail)]]]----All------- Note the extra [[ ]] around [(Mail)]. It seems that for each file or buffer I am currently viewing, whether visible or not, I get an extra [ ] around the mode name on all of my mode lines.
tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (02/25/89)
In article <8902241602.AA23190@sunfs3.camex.uucp> lloyd!sunfs3!geoff@HSCFVAX.HARVARD.EDU (Geoffrey Knauth) writes: gk> gk>--**-Emacs: *mail* 10:47am 0.28[5] [[[(Mail)]]]----All------- gk> gk> Note the extra [[ ]] around [(Mail)]. It seems that for each file or gk> buffer I am currently viewing, whether visible or not, I get an extra gk> [ ] around the mode name on all of my mode lines. **** File: emacs Node: Stuck Recursive, Prev: Lossage, Up: Lossage, Next: Screen Garbled Recursive Editing Levels ------------------------ Recursive editing levels are important and useful features of Emacs, but they can seem like malfunctions to the user who does not understand them. If the mode line has square brackets `[...]' around the parentheses that contain the names of the major and minor modes, you have entered a recursive editing level. If you did not do this on purpose, or if you don't understand what that means, you should just get out of the recursive editing level. To do so, type `M-x top-level'. This is called getting back to top level. *Note Recursive Edit::. **** (Sorry for posting, but our site has a really tough time with UUCP and bang-paths.) Dave -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu