Emacs Conspiracy Ties

Vulture of Light (trainor@CS.UCLA.EDU)
Mon, 04 Jul 88 15:32:50 PDT

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From: Andrew Chu <achu@oahu>
Newsgroups: bugs
Subject: Emacs bug
Date: 2 Jul 88 01:48:50 GMT

I got very strange Emacs behavor just then. In editing a file
"getspcd.c", a message appeared on the screen:

Hey, put some vowels in that filename, Andrew

and then in the command area, "Type Y to agree". I typed Y and things
return to normal. This also happened in my last session, but message
is too embaressing to type here.

Anyone know what is wrong with Emacs now?

From: Eri Ikezi <ikz@lanai>
Newsgroups: bugs
Subject: Re: Emacs bug
Date: 2 Jul 88 09:01:50 GMT

> I got very strange Emacs behavor just then. In editing a file...
^
i

I got similar message from Emacs on Friday. I was editing a file
"pcontrol.c" and a message flashed saying:

"Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone"

with a prompt in the mini-buffer: "Type Y to agree". I typed Y and
it didn't bother me again.

What's going on with these message? Who is this Oswald?

- - Eri Ikezi
ikz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu {sdcrdcf,ucbvax,randvax}!ucla-cs!ikz

From: nakashima@lanai
Newsgroups: bugs
Subject: Re: Emacs bug
Date: 2 Jul 88 13:41:26 GMT

> This also happened in my last session, but message
> is too embaressing to type here.

I think I got same message:

"Excuse me, but you're not wearing underwear, are you?"

And then "type Y to agree". What's going on with Emacs?
How did he know? :-)

Hideyuki Nakashima -- nakashima@lanai.cs.ucla.edu

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