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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: syscons driver Message-ID: <D20L01.3Jn@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (Internet Direct Admin) Organization: the Briney (notso) Deep Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:45:37 GMT References: <3eg382$bte@Mars.mcs.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2.1 [BP] PL2.1] Lines: 19 Christopher Hilton (chilton@MCS.COM) wrote: : I'm running FreeBSD 2.0 and having problems with the emacs 19.28 that : I think are originating in the syscons driver. Here's what I did: : [ using emacs 19.28 from prep... ] : For example If it type Esc-x man C-m (to pull up a : manual page) Emacs always puts this prompt into the mini-buffer: : MManual-Entry: : The Double M comes because the cursor didn't return to column 0 before : emacs tries to clear the line. : Has anyone seen this before or any similar bugs in the FreeBSD 2.0 : syscons driver? Yup. I installed Emacs 19.27 from the CD-ROM last week, and it experiences the same problem on the console. Wes Peters