Re: zap-to-char bug

John> This is not 100% repeatable, but I know that it is not a John> "fat fingers" problem, because I have on numerous occasions John> fixed the problem by doing "C-x u", then typed "z", slowly, John> only to see "zap-to-char" appear in the mode line. Well, it certainly looks like there's a keyboard problem somewhere (maybe in other software or in the keyboard hardware, and not in your anatomical hardware), since your report shows several Meta-z's in the keystroke stream. If they weren't there, I'd definitely suspect XEmacs, but XEmacs gets its keystrokes from the usual places (it does not read the keyboard directly), so I tend to suspect either a problem with your keyboard hardware or with your terminal program or X server. I see in your report John> Key read has no ASCII equivalent #<keypress-event meta-X> was that intentional, do you remember? Does it occur on any other keys besides z (and maybe x)? Does it happen on other hardware (eg, if you log in from another machine over the network)? Are you running on X or in a terminal? Try running xev on an XEmacs window (use xwininfo to get the window ID). See if xev agrees that the keyboard is sending Meta-z when you have the problem. If so, there is absolutely nothing XEmacs can do about it, except you could rebind M-z to (lambda () (insert ?z)). (A not very exact kludge.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.