Re: 2.6.0: characters repeated when *pasting*?!

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 14:37:48 EST


Hi!

> > I copied text ole.rohne@cern.ch (using gpm), pasted it to emacs (right
> > mouse button) in another console and it came out as
> > oooooole.rohne@cern.ch. That looks extremely weird and suggests that
> > repeated characters are indeed software problem.
> >
> > Its not reproducible, and nothing interesting in logs :-(.
>
> Hmmm, are you sure you hadn't pressed meta-6 before pasting it in?

I can't be sure... I do not think I pressed that, but it certainly is
possible that I wanted to switch consoles and pressed that by mistake.

                                                                Pavel

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