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- From: epstein@cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein)
- Subject: Re: keyboard locking up
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <1992Nov3.220326.28245@cc.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:21:24 GMT
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- In <1992Nov3.220326.28245@cc.uow.edu.au> dryan@cc.uow.edu.au (David Ryan) writes:
-
- >Greetings everyone. First off, I hope this is the appropriate group to ask
- >this question. Now to business. I have demacs 1.2.0 up and running. I am
- >using DOS 5.0 with the ansi.sys that came with DOS 5.0 and I have
- >set TERM=ibmpc and also uncommented the appropriate line in _emacs.
- >Furthermore, I have got some auc-tex stuff in \lib\emacs\lisp (or wherever
- >it is). I mainly use demacs to edit tex files so I do the following:
- >
- > e filename.tex
- >
- >Here "e" is a batch file that does "demacs %1" (talk about lazy!). Anyhow,
- >it loads emacs-19 then auc-tex as expected. The nifty auc-tex macros work
- >well but sometimes (and it appears not all the time) the keyboard locks up
- >on me after doing simple things like control-e to go to the end of the line.
- >I can save the file and quit but also, the keyboard is locked up at the dos
- >prompt! What a bummer! I then have to reset the dang computer. Are there any
- >ideas on how to solve this annoying problem? Please let me know if I have
- >forgotten some vital piece of information that will solve the universe.
- > Cheers and thanks in advance, Dave.
-
- I have had a somewhat similar problem, except with regular GNU emacs
- on an IBM RS6000. Occasionally when I exit emacs, the
- keyboard/terminal is locked up. I must do "C-j reset C-j" to get it
- back again. This happens only intermittently, so it is quite
- puzzling. Also, recently we upgraded from AIX 3.1 to AIX 3.2, and I
- was hoping that the problem would be gone after that, but it still
- happens, although perhaps less frequently. I've had it happen when
- dialing up, when rlogged in from another machines, when sitting at the
- 6000 console. Sometimes when I edit a file directly, or sometimes
- when in nn or mail. If anyone has any clues as to what the problem
- might be, I'd love to hear them. This is with emacs 18.58.
-
- Thanks.
-
- --
- Milt Epstein
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Illinois
- epstein@cs.uiuc.edu
-