[ESS] sometimes <C-x s> does not work ...

[Charles C. Berry]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Meinhard Ploner wrote:

> Okay, now I worked for some time without this problem, but now it evolved 
> again:
>
> C-x C-s is recognized simply as C-x and "nothing".

Weird! I could understand this happening if the 's' was failing all by
itself, but that would be really obvious.

Googling "ctrl-s problem" (with the quotes) gives a few hits, but the 
'enable-flow-control' toggle  is not your problem as you describe it.

Maybe when this next happens, you can change focus to another (non-emacs) 
window and try out the C-x C-s sequence to see if it is recognized.

Maybe swap keyboards with another machine and see if the problem migrates 
there?

Chuck

> But if I press the shift in the meanwhile then all is fine, but that is 
> annoying:
> C-x C-S
>
> The same occurs on C-h k C-x C-s.
> The last C-s is ignored, but recognized if I use C-S
>
> Strange to me ...
> Meinhard
>
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 5:51 PM, Charles C. Berry wrote:
>
>> 
>> Meinhard,
>> 
>> And what does emacs do if not 'save-buffer'?
>> 
>> What does
>>
>>  C-h k C-x C-s
>> 
>> report when this is happening?
>> 
>> if not "C-x C-s runs the command save-buffer" etc then you should have a 
>> hint as to what is going on.
>> 
>> Maybe it is a problem with your keyboard. My old laptop is very cranky 
>> about recognizing when I put the CTRL or SHIFT buttons down.
>> 
>> Does this happen with both CTRL buttons or only the one on one side of the 
>> keyboard??
>> 
>> HTH,
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Meinhard Ploner wrote:
>> 
>> > I have a very strange problem. I work with R 2.3.1 on Mac OS X 10.4
>> > and use ESS 5.3.1.
>> > 
>> > I save my files using C-x C-s, which usually works fine, but
>> > sometimes it does occur that the command works only if I put the
>> > shift for the second command, looking now like C-x C-S or C-x C-shift-
>> > s, which is awful for me.
>> > 
>> > Restarting emacs, ess and R resolves the problem, BUT: why this does
>> > occur to me??
>> > 
>> > Meinhard Ploner
>> > 
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>> 
>> Charles C. Berry                        (858) 534-2098
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>

Charles C. Berry                        (858) 534-2098
                                          Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
E mailto:cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu	         UC San Diego
http://biostat.ucsd.edu/~cberry/         La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0717