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On 12/11/21 7:29 AM, mick crane wrote:
> On 2021-12-11 06:34, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 12/10/21 7:44 PM, mick crane wrote:

>>>> On Fri 10 Dec 2021 at 22:37:22 (+0000), mick crane wrote:
>>>>> hello
>>>>> please excuse basic lack of understanding.
>>>>> I try to write some program in Perl I would find useful.
>>>>> Use of editing is very basic and usually I get by with vi/vim
>>>>> recently I try to get used to Nano.
>>>>> In another virtual terminal if copy one file to another or something,
>>>>> the command line words just now got randomly inserted into the file
>>>>> I'm editing in other virtual terminal.
>>>>> Which is distressing.
>>>>> I'm hoping it's just fat fingers and I managed to make some macro I
>>>>> didn't know about.
>>>>> What bothers me is that it seems random where the words go and wonder
>>>>> if opening 2 files in Nano share the same buffer or something and it
>>>>> gets mixed up. Is not a problem I saw before.
>>>>> Any explanation for that ?

>>> There was something about the terminal shortcuts overriding other 
>>> shortcuts in MC as well and I think I've disabled all the terminal 
>>> shortcuts via the graphical xfce xterm settings menu
>>
>>
>> I adjust the Xfce Terminal settings by opening a Terminal,
>> right-clicking on the Terminal window, and clicking Preferences on the
>> pop-up menu:
> 
>>   Misc
>>     Use middle mouse click to close tabs -> uncheck
>>     Auto-hide mount pointer -> check
>>     Rewrap terminal contents on resize -> check
>>     Automatically copy select to clipboard -> uncheck
>>
>>
> Mine are a bit different there, have
> Use middle mouse click to close tabs
> use middle mouse click to open URLS
> Auto hide mouse pointer
> Open new tab to the right of the active tab
> Audible bell
> Visual bell
> all unchecked except for Auto hide mouse pointer.
> it happens again, bits of words from elsewhere in the file randomly 
> inserted into the file.
> It's not garbage so I don't think is disk corruption or memory.
> As is executable I sometimes run in other virtual terminal while opened 
> in nano.
> Would that cause it?
> The other thing is I installed gd, think is called, and sometimes if 
> want to copy a single line and change one letter I shift and drag 
> pointer over the line then middle click to paste.
> Dunno if that could do it. never happened in vi/vim or happened before 
> yesterday.
> 
> mick


Have you verified your hardware -- e.g. power supply tester, memory 
diagnostic, HDD/SSD diagnostic, etc.?


When a computer gets to the point that it is doing weird things that I 
cannot understand, troubleshoot, or fix, I download the OS installer of 
choice, burn it to USB, make sure my configuration files are checked in 
to CVS, backup my data, remove the system disk, insert a blank system 
disk, do a fresh install, take an image of the system disk, boot, check 
out the old configuration files to a side directory, edit the new 
configuration files (rebooting and testing as I proceed), and restore 
data.  This is the only way I know to get a "clean", and hopefully 
reliable, OS image.


David

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changed file while editing mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 23:40 +0100
  Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-11 02:20 +0100
    Re: changed file while editing mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-12-11 02:40 +0100
  Re: changed file while editing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-11 04:10 +0100
    Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-11 07:40 +0100
      Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-11 20:00 +0100
        Re: changed file while editing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-12-16 21:40 +0100
        Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-17 04:40 +0100
      Re: changed file while editing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-11 20:50 +0100
        Re: changed file while editing "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-12-12 00:10 +0100
          Re: changed file while editing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-12-12 00:30 +0100
            Re: changed file while editing The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-12-12 00:30 +0100
              Re: changed file while editing David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-12-12 01:40 +0100
              WM focus, was Re: changed file while editing David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-12 03:00 +0100
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