> Which is what one wants. Someone seems to be merging the self-insert > commands in your situation. Probably the native merging code has > changed in recent Emacs itself.
Indeed, self-insert-command used to be treated specially by the read-eval-loop and the merging was performed there. Now this command is handled like any other, and self-insert-command does the merging itself. In most cases the result is the same, but the behavior is not quite identical in the details. Stefan