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From: jfjr@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Freedman)
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Subject: spurious i-search
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 14:37:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 14:37:08 1987
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  I am using a vt100 on Ultrix running Emacs 18.49. We have just been
moved to a new location with a whole new networking system. I find
I get "Failing-isearch: ^Q" often enough to tempt me into encouraging
my terminal to go airborne. I looked around in the installation
notes and "PROBLEMS" in particular and my problem was described along
with several possible solutions. The one I tried and which seems to
work is to evalutate (set-input-mode nil t). I did it, it seems to
work and I put it in my .emacs. Now here's my question(s). The
author of problems describes this solution as drastic and enough
to get emacs "semi" working. Well gee, it seems to work fine. Am I
missing something? Will my terminal blow up or all my files go to
the bitbucket?. What dangers am I skirting? 
 Next question. I looked in site-init.el and saw where the
construction of the keyboard-translate-table. It maps ^S to ^S
and ^Q to ^Q (as well as ^\ to ^S and ^^ to ^Q). Can I get into
trouble if I override this in my .emacs - which is loaded first?
site-init.el or .emacs? By overriding I mean map ^S to something
harmless but still mapping ^\ to ^S. This type of thing is also
referred to as drastic too by the way - How drastic is it?



Jerry Freedman, Jr      "As you wander through life
jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa   Whatever be your goal
(617)271-6248 or 7555    Keep your eye upon the doughnut
                          and not on the hole"