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Yikes! Emacs line mode went crazy and its persisent...please help!
b***@gmail.com
2018-11-09 14:59:20 UTC
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Is that even possible? After years of using Emacs, today I might have pressed some presumably incorrect keyboard combination and now Emacs in AucTex has started to go crazy. I used to have visual-line-mode and line numbering on. Now suddenly it wraps to some column (98) instead of the window with and if I press ctrl-e it jumps to the next line. When I go back with ctrl-b it doesn't jump to the last word on the previous line but to the last position in the visible frame! Then, when there is e.g. "the" on the current line and I type " dude", "the" jumps to the previous line and "dude" moves to the beginning of the line.

Also, the line numbering now shows one line per paragraph instead of consecutive line numbers for each soft-wrapped line.

What's puzzling me is that I did not make any changes to default.el or .emacs and nevertheless the change is persistent across Emacs launches and even logging in and out again. It happened from one moment to the other, so it must have been caused by an unusual keypress.

Does anybody have an idea what I inadvertently changed? Please help, this is driving me nuts and I can't work that way.

GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
of 2017-09-20 on lcy01-07, modified by Debian
Van L
2018-11-09 15:20:49 UTC
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Post by b***@gmail.com
Does anybody have an idea
Start from
emacs -Q
Marcin Borkowski
2018-11-09 16:28:01 UTC
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Post by Van L
Post by b***@gmail.com
Does anybody have an idea
Start from
emacs -Q
Also, in the future: C-h l

Also, elisp-bug-hunter

Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
Van L
2018-11-13 22:28:23 UTC
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Post by Marcin Borkowski
Also, elisp-bug-hunter
No description is given by

C-h d elisp-bug-hunter RET
Amin Bandali
2018-11-13 22:42:02 UTC
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Post by Van L
No description is given by
C-h d elisp-bug-hunter RET
That’s because it’s not in core, but is on GNU ELPA¹.


Footnotes:
¹ https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bug-hunter.html
Van L
2018-11-23 07:36:20 UTC
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Post by Amin Bandali
Post by Van L
No description is given by
C-h d elisp-bug-hunter RET
That’s because it’s not in core, but is on GNU ELPA¹.
Thanks. I’ve been on the lookout for
the double dash convention hinting at
the component not being in core, such as, elisp--bug-hunter
Post by Amin Bandali
¹ https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bug-hunter.html
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