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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: syscons driver
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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 02:45:37 GMT
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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