Re: Keys spontaneously rebinding themselves

[David Storrs]

You're exactly right.  When I started up with -q it worked perfectly.
I experimented with disabling / reenabling certain files and seeing
when the issue came back, but it didn't -- yet another piece of
weirdness, but I'll take it.  Oorah!

Thanks, Peter.

Dave

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
>
> Am 03.09.2013 um 18:24 schrieb David Storrs:
>
>> OSX 10.6.8
>> (emacs-version) => "GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin) of 2011-06-07
>> on b1030.apple.com"
>
> This is the GNU Emacs from Apple that comes with Mac OS X, the one without 
> any windowing support. It's also possible that the terminal emulation you are 
> using as host for GNU Emacs is doing some nonsense, sending the wrong 
> characters. C-h l, in case you succeed in inputting these two, will show you 
> what GNU Emacs has received until then.
>
> With Snow Leopard you can try to restore /usr/bin/emacs-undumped and 
> /usr/bin/emacs from a Time Machine backup.
>
> You can also try to launch GNU Emacs with the options -q or -Q. Then GNU 
> Emacs will not load init files, which might contain Elisp code to "rebind the 
> keys".
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a 
> man's head.
>