Re: First character beeps screen sometimes

[Aaron Meurer]

OK, I just figured out that it has something to do with my .emacs
file.  I started the daemon with -Q and the bug didn't happen, but
without -Q, it does happen.  I'll see if I can't bisect the problem.

Aaron Meurer

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good to know it's not just me then :)
>
> I'm not surprised that it's a bug with emacsclient.  emacsclient has a
> bunch of little quirky bugs where one client will interfere with
> another and things like that.
>
> I can say that this has nothing to do with X.  I compiled emacs with
> --with-x=no, and use it entirely in the terminal.
>
> Is there an existing emacs issue about this, or should I report it?
> Where is the emacs issue tracker even located?
>
> I just discovered how to reproduce this consistantly.  If I close
> emacs using M-x save-buffers-kill-emacs and restart emacs client (I
> use emacsclient -a "" -nw file), it always does this with the file I
> open.  It does it in cases other than this too, but assuming it's all
> the same bug, I should be able to help debug it using this fact.
>
> There is no text printed in the info buffer, except for the standard
> "When done with a buffer, type C-x #" before I start typing.
>
> Finally, is there a way to consistently work-around this?  Or maybe
> someone industrious can just fix the bug and get it over with.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:26 AM, XeCycle <XeCycle@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Aaron Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Final note: I use emacsclient with emacs daemon, if that might make a
>>> difference.  As far as version goes, I am using a very recent build
>>> from the development repo of emacs.
>>
>> "emacsclient" is the cause.  I can reproduce this, by doing
>> `emacsclient -c -e '(gnus)'`, when I have no X frames open at the
>> time.  Sometimes can also be reproduced even when an X frame is
>> already there, though not always.
>>
>> I think this is an ancient bug.  Noticed this at the time I began
>> using emacsclient.
>>
>> --
>> Carl Lei (XeCycle)
>> Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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