Re: Meta-c

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. Devon> In XEmacs 20.4 "Emerald" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux) of Wed Jul Devon> 1 1998 on proton Please describe exactly what actions Devon> triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Devon> I typed Meta-Minus Meta-C in the minibuffer prompt for Devon> string-rectangle expecting to capitalize the previous word Devon> I had typed. Hello Devon, the problem exists in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.0 \"Pyrenean-pre6\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Wed Nov 11 1998 on DARTER2" as well. Adrian Devon> Signaling: (error "There is no region now") Devon> region-beginning() capitalize-region-or-word(-1) Devon> call-interactively(capitalize-region-or-word) Devon> read-minibuffer-internal("String rectangle: ") byte-code("À Devon> Á V«ŠÂ‰Å!*‡Å!‡" [recursion-depth minibuffer-depth t Devon> standard-input standard-output read-minibuffer-internal Devon> prompt] 2) read-from-minibuffer("String rectangle: " nil Devon> #<keymap minibuffer-local-map 14 entries 0x4d3> nil nil) Devon> read-string("String rectangle: ") Devon> call-interactively(string-rectangle) Devon> Recent keystrokes: Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape - Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape - Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape - Devon> escape y escape - escape y escape - escape y escape - Devon> escape y C-x C-x escape - C-x tab escape f escape f escape Devon> b C-c space escape 2 escape f C-n C-x r k C-x C-x C-x r t l Devon> o g i n escape - escape c - Devon> Recent minibuffer messages (most recent first): Devon> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "*Backtrace*"> Entering Devon> debugger... Loading rect...done Loading rect... Quit Quit Devon> Quit: isearch Wrote /home/devon/perl/radius.pl Making Devon> completion list... Making completion list... Entering Devon> debugger... Quit Scan for pods, formats and here-docs Devon> completed. Scanning for pods, formats and here-docs... Devon> Loading cperl-mode...done Loading cperl-mode... Reading Devon> directory /home/devon/perl/...done Reading directory Devon> /home/devon/perl/... Reading directory Devon> /home/devon/perl/...done Reading directory Devon> /home/devon/perl/... Buffer has 1245 lines, 8948 Devon> characters Quit Wrote /home/devon/Accounts-1998-jOct Devon> Replaced 0 occurrences Entering debugger... Loading Devon> sort...done Loading sort... Making completion list... Devon> Quit Buffer has 1218 lines, 8770 characters Reading Devon> directory Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/raddb/...done Reading Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/raddb/... Devon> Quit Buffer has 32 lines, 217 characters space = page Devon> forward; b = page back; h = help; q = quit. Loading Devon> view-less...done Loading view-less... Buffer has 1218 Devon> lines, 8770 characters Wrote Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/remaining Replaced 32 Devon> occurrences Quit Making completion list... Entering Devon> debugger... Keyboard macro defined Defining kbd macro... Devon> Quit Wrote /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/initial Devon> Quit (New file) Reading directory Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/...done Reading Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/var/... Loading Devon> vc-hooks...done Loading vc-hooks... Reading directory Devon> /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/...done Reading Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/etc/... Reading Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/...done Reading Devon> directory /home/devon/IAC-1998-kNov-19-Thu/... Reading Devon> directory /home/devon/...done Reading directory Devon> /home/devon/... Loading dired...done Loading dired... Devon> ..loaded ~devon/.emacs Loading time...done Loading Devon> cus-face...done Loading cus-face... Loading time... Error Devon> (file-error Cannot open load file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/ange-ftp) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/ange-ftp Error (file-error Cannot open Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/uncompress) while loading patch Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/uncompress Error (file-error Cannot Devon> open load file /home/devon/emacs/tags) while loading patch Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/tags Error (file-error Cannot open Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/shell) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/shell Error (file-error Cannot open load Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/rmail) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/rmail Error (file-error Cannot open load Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/mouse) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/mouse Error (file-error Cannot open load Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/man) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/man Error (file-error Cannot open load Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/isearch) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/isearch Error (file-error Cannot open Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/help) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/help Error (file-error Cannot open load Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/files) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/files Error (file-error Cannot open load Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/compile) while loading patch file Devon> /home/devon/emacs/compile Error (file-error Cannot open Devon> load file /home/devon/emacs/compare-w) while loading patch Devon> file /home/devon/emacs/compare-w Error (file-error Cannot Devon> open load file /home/devon/emacs/comment) while loading Devon> patch file /home/devon/emacs/comment Devon> Recent input: escape - escape y escape - escape y escape - Devon> escape y escape - escape y C-x C-x escape - C-x tab escape Devon> f escape f escape b C-c space escape 2 escape f C-n C-x r k Devon> C-x C-x C-x r t l o g i n escape - escape c - C-p C-p C-p Devon> C-u C-u C-u C-k C-x h escape w C-h l C-o C-y C-x h escape w Devon> C-x o escape x b u g space escape delete delete r e p r Devon> delete o r t tab return M e t a - C return Devon> Recent messages: Loading rect... Loading rect...done Devon> Entering debugger... Buffer is read-only: #<buffer Devon> "*Backtrace*"> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "*Help*"> Devon> Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "*Help*"> Loading emacsbug... Devon> Loading emacsbug...done Loading mail-abbrevs... Loading Devon> mail-abbrevs...done -- Adrian Aichner European Design Center Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com