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From: doug@wiley.UUCP (Doug Rudoff)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Meta key disappears and decctlq is on after suspending (sometimes)
Message-ID: <7578@wiley.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 03:03:10 GMT
Reply-To: doug@wiley.UUCP (Doug Rudoff)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
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I am using GNU Emacs 18.55 on a DECstation 3100. Most of the time I
use it, I rlogin from a Sun 3/80 (Why you ask? I'm developing sofware
on the DEC, but I have a Sun on my desk and the DEC's keyboard really
sucks (no Meta key, ESC is F11, etc.) and the color display is very
blurry).

About a third of the time I suspend emacs and then go back in, the
Meta keys don't work (I can still use ESC) and ^S and ^Q are trapped.
If I suspend emacs again, a stty command tells me that decctlq is on.
And when I go back into emacs, everything is OK again.

Actually, I remember having this problem logged in between just Suns
as well. Anybody have any ideas what is happening here?

Also, when I enter a Meta-delete in emacs (on the DEC), emacs pauses
and the window is left in some bizarre mode. When I go back into
emacs, it is really confused and echos nothing to the screen.
ESC-delete still works as backward-delete-char-untabify. I find this
action a bit weird.

Thanks.

I can be reached by e-mail: (This is NOT the machine I post from!)
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Doug Rudoff