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 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.