[lug] Emacs won't type "["

[Tkil]

>>>>> "Glenn" == Glenn Murray <gmurray at Mines.EDU> writes:

Glenn> If I do, the shortcut keys are OK, but when I open a .java file
Glenn> in the DOS partition, the prj.el loads and I can no longer type
Glenn> a left square bracket.  I.e., I can type it, but it won't
Glenn> appear in the edit buffer, it appears as "[-" (no quotes) in
Glenn> the command buffer (at the bottom).

it sounds like the prj.el file uses "[" as a prefix key (which is just
incredibly annoying).  prefix keys are things like C-x which don't do
anything themselves, but are the first stage in an hierarchical keymap
binding.  

to see what it's a prefix for, you can do either:

  M-x describe-key RET [

or, next time you're in the situation where "[" shows up in the
minibuffer, follow it with C-h; that should show you a list of all
keybindings that follow that.

you can insert a bracket by doing 

  C-q [ 

(control q "quotes" the next character).

either way, there is probably some way to turn off this behavior of
prj.el, as it seriously breaks every emacs UI convention ever
mentioned... 

t.