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(icomplete-minibuffer-setup): Remove make-local-hook.
author Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
date Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:27:15 +0000
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1 This file describes various problems that have been encountered
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2 in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.
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4 * Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.
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5
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6 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
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7 of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released
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8 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those
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9 dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1
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10 around Sep 30 2001. The preprocessor in those versions is
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11 incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into
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12 ". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent
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13 directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make
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14 variables).
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16 The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
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17 `-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically
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18 when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some
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19 unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional',
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20 run the script like this:
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22 CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ...
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24 (replace the ellipsis "..." with any additional arguments you pass to
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25 the script).
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27 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
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28 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.
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30 * Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.
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32 Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
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33 version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be
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34 necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define
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35 __MSVCRT__, like so:
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37 configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
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39 * Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
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41 The error message might be something like this:
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42
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43 Converting d:/emacs-21.1/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
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44 Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary
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45 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code
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46 '0xffffffff'
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47 Stop.
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48
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49 This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program
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50 which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The
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51 `*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line
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52 endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code
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53 or EOL conversions.
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54
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55 The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not
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56 change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has
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57 in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe'
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58 which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without
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59 mangling them.
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61 * Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux.
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63 The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical
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64 C backtrace printed by GDB:
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66 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
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67 (gdb) where
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68 #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
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69 #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray ()
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70 #2 0x18b3500 in main ()
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71 #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc,
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73 This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base
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74 of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this,
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75 but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks
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76 other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to
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77 distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of
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78 GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the
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79 following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs
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80 distribution:
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81
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82 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux ecept for Yellowdog,
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83 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
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84 know what's really going on here. */
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85 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
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86 0x10000000. */
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87 #if defined __linux__
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88 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
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89 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
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90 #endif
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91 #endif
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92 #endif /* 0 */
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94 Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save
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95 the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process
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96 should now succeed.
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98 * JPEG images aren't displayed.
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100 This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library.
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101 Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem.
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103 * Building `ctags' for MS-Windows with the MinGW port of GCC fails.
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105 This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which
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106 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following
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107 patch to assert.h should solve this:
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108
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109 *** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999
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110 --- include/assert.h Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001
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111 ***************
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112 *** 41,47 ****
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113 /*
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114 * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
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115 */
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116 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0);
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118 #else /* debugging enabled */
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120 --- 41,47 ----
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121 /*
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122 * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
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123 */
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124 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0)
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132 If you don't need X Input Methods (XIM) for entering text in some
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133 language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by
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134 configuring Emacs with option `--without-xim'. Configuring Emacs
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135 without XIM does not affect the use of Emacs' own input methods, which
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138 If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider
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139 switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar.
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143 By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on
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144 FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the
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149 Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the
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150 definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows''
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151 key with scan code 105, change the line for scan code 105 in emacs.kbd
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154 105 meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta O
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156 to make the Windows key the Meta key. Load the new keymap with
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158 $ kbdcontrol -l emacs.kbd
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160 * Emacs' xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal.
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162 A symptom of this bug is that double-clicks insert a control sequence
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163 into the buffer. The reason this happens is an apparent
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164 incompatibility of the Gnome terminal with Xterm, which also affects
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165 other programs using the Xterm mouse interface. A problem report has
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166 been filed.
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168 * Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font
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170 This has been reported for fvwm 2.2.5 and the window manager of KDE
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171 2.1. The reason for the pause is Xt waiting for a ConfigureNotify
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172 event from the window manager, which the window manager doesn't send.
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173 Xt stops waiting after a default timeout of usually 5 seconds.
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175 A workaround for this is to add something like
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177 emacs.waitForWM: false
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179 to your X resources. Alternatively, add `(wait-for-wm . nil)' to a
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180 frame's parameter list, like this:
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182 (modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))
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184 (this should go into your `.emacs' file).
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186 * Underlines appear at the wrong position.
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188 This is caused by fonts having a wrong UNDERLINE_POSITION property.
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189 Examples are the font 7x13 on XFree prior to version 4.1, or the jmk
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190 neep font from the Debian xfonts-jmk package. To circumvent this
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191 problem, set x-use-underline-position-properties to nil in your
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192 `.emacs'.
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194 To see what is the value of UNDERLINE_POSITION defined by the font,
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195 type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION
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196 property.
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198 * When using Xaw3d scroll bars without arrows, the very first mouse
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199 click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This
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200 is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the
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204 XawM and the few other derivatives of Xaw. So when you compile with
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205 one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one.
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206 If you try it and it does not work, try rebuilding Emacs with the
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207 toolkit version you actually want to use.
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209 * Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window.
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211 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know
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212 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured
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213 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
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217 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal
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218 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database
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219 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the
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220 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are
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221 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within
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222 Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system
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223 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is
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224 "colors".
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226 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for
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227 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal
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228 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not
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229 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry
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230 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape
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231 sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make
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232 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op"
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235 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which
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236 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability
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237 incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting
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238 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps.
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240 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value
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241 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal
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242 entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to
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243 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible
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244 emulator.
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246 Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
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247 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
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248 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The
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249 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x
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250 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable
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251 `global-font-lock-mode'.
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252
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253 * Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block.
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254
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255 This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use
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256 ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well.
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257 These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where
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258 the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c"
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259 (show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a
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260 blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character
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261 cell. This blinking cannot be stopped, since a hardware cursor
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262 always blinks.
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263
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264 A work-around is to redefine the "cvvis" capability so that it
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265 enables a *software* cursor. The software cursor works by inverting
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266 the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block
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267 cursor that doesn't blink. For this to work, you need to redefine
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268 the "cnorm" capability as well, so that it operates on the software
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269 cursor instead of the hardware cursor.
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270
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271 To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file
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272 `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send
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273 the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to
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274 produce a modified terminfo entry.
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275
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276 Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor,
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277 change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command.
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278
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279 * Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.
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280
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281 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif
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282 emulation for which it is set up.
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283
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284 Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif.
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285 Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD.
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286 On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure
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287 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most
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288 successful. The binary GNU/Linux package
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289 lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with
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290 menu placement.
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291
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292 On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally
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293 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know
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294 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs
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295 developers.
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296
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297 * Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.1.
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298
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299 Emacs 21.1 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images and the tool bar.
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300 Support for these will be added in future versions.
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301
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302 Help text for pop-up menu items is not displayed at all.
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303
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304 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
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305 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first
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306 frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame
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307 after moving back into it.
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308
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309 Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although
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310 not as severely as in 21.1.
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311
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312 Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null
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313 characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.
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314
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315 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
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316 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.
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317
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318 Windows 2000 input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.1).
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319 These input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded in
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320 the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
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321 characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make this
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322 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
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323 you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate
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324 the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs
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325 ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
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326 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
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327 yet.)
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328
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329 Multilingual text put into the Windows 2000 clipboard by Windows
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330 applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.1). This
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331 is because Windows 2000 uses Unicode to represent multilingual text,
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332 but Emacs does not yet support Unicode well enough to decode it. This
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333 means that Emacs can only interchange non-ASCII text with other
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334 Windows 2000 programs if the characters are in the system codepage.
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335 Reportedly, a partial solution is to install the Mule-UCS package and
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336 set selection-coding-system to utf-16-le-dos.
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338 * The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
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339
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340 This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared
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341 libraries, but jpeg distribution by default doesn't build and doesn't
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342 install a shared version of the library, `libjpeg.so'. One system
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343 where this is known to happen is Compaq OSF/1 (`Tru64'), but it
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344 probably isn't limited to that system.
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345
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346 You can configure the jpeg library with the `--enable-shared' option
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347 and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a shared version of libjpeg,
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348 which you need to install. Finally, rerun the Emacs configure script,
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349 which should now find the jpeg library. Alternatively, modify the
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350 generated src/Makefile to link the .a file explicitly.
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352 (If you need the static version of the jpeg library as well, configure
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353 libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared' options.)
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355 * Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
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357 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system
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358 (RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris
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359 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that
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360 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the
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361 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is
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362 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping
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363 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped
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364 Emacs excutable to fail with the above message.
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365
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366 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the
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367 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make
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368 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future).
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369 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems.
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371 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05
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372 (Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if
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373 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can
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374 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the
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375 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB
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376 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the
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377 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount
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378 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as
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379 `/etc/auto.home'.
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381 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for
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382 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case,
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383 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
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384 to work around the problem.
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385
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386 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory
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387 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and
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388 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the
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389 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble:
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390
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391 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted...
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392
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393 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
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394
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395 * Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run.
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396
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397 This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted
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398 via NFS. Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of
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399 binary null characters, and the `file' utility says:
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400
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401 emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators
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402
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403 We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to
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404 build Emacs in a directory on a local disk.
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406 * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.
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407
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408 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with
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409 other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software
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410 that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font
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411 size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts
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412 when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean
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413 fonts have this bug in some versions of X.
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414
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415 To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this:
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416
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417 xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
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418
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419 If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the
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420 problem.
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421
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422 The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate
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423 `fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run
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424 `xset fp rehash'.
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425
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426 * Large file support is disabled on HP-UX. See the comments in
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427 src/s/hpux10.h.
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428
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429 * Crashes when displaying uncompressed GIFs with version
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430 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1.
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431
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432 * Font Lock displays portions of the bufefr in incorrect faces.
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433
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434 By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace
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435 `{' in column zero. Font Lock assumes that such a paren is outside of
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436 any comment or string. This is of course not true in general, but the
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437 vast majority of well-formatted program source files don't have such
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438 parens, and therefore this assumption is used to allow optimizations
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439 in Font Lock's syntactical analysis. These optimizations avoid some
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440 patological cases where jit-lock, the Just-in-Time fontification
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441 introduced with Emacs 21.1, could significantly slow down scrolling
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442 through the buffer, especially scrolling backwards, and also jumping
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443 to the end of a very large buffer.
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444
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445 If you don't use large buffers, or have a very fast machine which
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446 makes the delays insignificant, you can avoid the incorrect
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447 fontification by setting the variable
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448 `font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function' to a nil value. (This must
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449 be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.)
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450
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451 Another alternative is to avoid a paren in column zero. For example,
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452 in a Lisp string you could precede the paren with a backslash.
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453
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454 * Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.
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455
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456 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the
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457 MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash
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458 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the
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459 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports
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460 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.)
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461
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462 * Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
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463
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464 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be
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465 due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it
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466 and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows
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467 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses
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468 are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which
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469 confuses ange-ftp.
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470
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471 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL
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472 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock
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473 Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' directory. To
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474 force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the variable
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475 `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the client's
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476 executable. For example:
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478 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe")
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479
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480 If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around
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481 this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file:
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483 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "")
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484
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485
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486 * The latest released version of the W3 package doesn't run properly
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487 with Emacs 21 and needs work. However, these problems are already
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488 fixed in W3's CVS. The patch below is reported to make w3-4.0pre.46
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489 work.
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490
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491 Some users report they are unable to byte-compile W3 with Emacs 21.
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492 If the patches below don't help to resolve your problems, install the
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493 CVS version of W3, which should be compatible with Emacs 21.
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495 diff -aur --new-file w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-display.el w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-display.el
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496 --- w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-display.el Sun Nov 14 22:00:12 1999
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497 +++ w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-display.el Thu Dec 14 14:59:15 2000
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498 @@ -181,7 +181,8 @@
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499 (dispatch-event (next-command-event)))
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500 (error nil))))
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501 (t
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503 + ;; modified for GNU Emacs 21 by bob@rattlesnake.com on 2000 Dec 14
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504 + (if (and (not (sit-for 0)) nil)
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507 (setq w3-pause-keystroke
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508 diff -aur --new-file w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-e21.el w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-e21.el
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509 --- w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-e21.el Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
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510 +++ w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-e21.el Thu Dec 14 14:54:58 2000
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511 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
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512 +;;; w3-e21.el --- ** required for GNU Emacs 21 **
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513 +;; Added by bob@rattlesnake.com on 2000 Dec 14
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514 +
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515 +(require 'w3-e19)
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516 +(provide 'w3-e21)
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517
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518 * On AIX, if linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you
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519 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If
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520 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure
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521 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
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522
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523 * The PSGML package uses the obsolete variables
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524 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no
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525 longer used by Emacs. These changes to PSGML 1.2.2 fix that.
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526
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527 --- psgml-edit.el 2001/03/03 00:23:31 1.1
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528 +++ psgml-edit.el 2001/03/03 00:24:22
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529 @@ -264,4 +264,4 @@
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530 ; inhibit-read-only
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531 - (before-change-function nil)
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532 - (after-change-function nil))
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533 + (before-change-functions nil)
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534 + (after-change-functions nil))
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535 (setq selective-display t)
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536 @@ -1544,3 +1544,3 @@
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537 (buffer-read-only nil)
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538 - (before-change-function nil)
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539 + (before-change-functions nil)
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540 (markup-index ; match-data index in tag regexp
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541 @@ -1596,3 +1596,3 @@
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542 (defun sgml-expand-shortref-to-text (name)
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543 - (let (before-change-function
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544 + (let (before-change-functions
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545 (entity (sgml-lookup-entity name (sgml-dtd-entities sgml-dtd-info))))
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546 @@ -1613,3 +1613,3 @@
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547 (re-found nil)
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548 - before-change-function)
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549 + before-change-functions)
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550 (goto-char sgml-markup-start)
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551 @@ -1646,3 +1646,3 @@
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552 (goto-char (sgml-element-end element))
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553 - (let ((before-change-function nil))
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554 + (let ((before-change-functions nil))
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555 (sgml-normalize-content element only-one)))
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556 Index: psgml-other.el
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557 --- psgml-other.el 2001/03/03 00:23:42 1.1
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558 +++ psgml-other.el 2001/03/03 00:30:05
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559 @@ -32,2 +32,3 @@
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560 (require 'easymenu)
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561 +(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
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562
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563 @@ -61,4 +62,9 @@
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564 (let ((submenu
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565 - (subseq entries 0 (min (length entries)
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566 - sgml-max-menu-size))))
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567 +;;; (subseq entries 0 (min (length entries)
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568 +;;; sgml-max-menu-size))
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569 + (let ((new (copy-sequence entries)))
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570 + (setcdr (nthcdr (1- (min (length entries)
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571 + sgml-max-menu-size))
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572 + new) nil)
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573 + new)))
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574 (setq entries (nthcdr sgml-max-menu-size entries))
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575 @@ -113,9 +119,10 @@
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576 (let ((inhibit-read-only t)
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577 - (after-change-function nil) ; obsolete variable
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578 - (before-change-function nil) ; obsolete variable
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579 (after-change-functions nil)
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580 - (before-change-functions nil))
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581 + (before-change-functions nil)
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582 + (modified (buffer-modified-p))
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583 + (buffer-undo-list t)
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584 + deactivate-mark)
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585 (put-text-property start end 'face face)
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586 - (when (< start end)
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587 - (put-text-property (1- end) end 'rear-nonsticky '(face)))))
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588 + (when (and (not modified) (buffer-modified-p))
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589 + (set-buffer-modified-p nil))))
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590 (t
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591 Index: psgml-parse.el
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592 --- psgml-parse.el 2001/03/03 00:23:57 1.1
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593 +++ psgml-parse.el 2001/03/03 00:29:56
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594 @@ -40,2 +40,4 @@
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595
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596 +(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
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597 +
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598
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599 @@ -2493,8 +2495,8 @@
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600 (setq sgml-scratch-buffer nil))
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601 - (when after-change-function ;***
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602 - (message "OOPS: after-change-function not NIL in scratch buffer %s: %s"
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603 + (when after-change-functions ;***
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604 + (message "OOPS: after-change-functions not NIL in scratch buffer %s: %S"
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605 (current-buffer)
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606 - after-change-function)
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607 - (setq before-change-function nil
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608 - after-change-function nil))
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609 + after-change-functions)
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610 + (setq before-change-functions nil
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611 + after-change-functions nil))
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612 (setq sgml-last-entity-buffer (current-buffer))
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613 @@ -2878,6 +2880,5 @@
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614 "Set initial state of parsing"
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615 - (make-local-variable 'before-change-function)
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616 - (setq before-change-function 'sgml-note-change-at)
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617 - (make-local-variable 'after-change-function)
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618 - (setq after-change-function 'sgml-set-face-after-change)
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619 + (set (make-local-variable 'before-change-functions) '(sgml-note-change-at))
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620 + (set (make-local-variable 'after-change-functions)
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621 + '(sgml-set-face-after-change))
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622 (sgml-set-active-dtd-indicator (sgml-dtd-doctype dtd))
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623 @@ -3925,7 +3926,7 @@
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624 (sgml-need-dtd)
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625 - (unless before-change-function
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626 - (message "WARN: before-change-function has been lost, restoring (%s)"
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627 + (unless before-change-functions
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628 + (message "WARN: before-change-functions has been lost, restoring (%s)"
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629 (current-buffer))
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630 - (setq before-change-function 'sgml-note-change-at)
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631 - (setq after-change-function 'sgml-set-face-after-change))
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632 + (setq before-change-functions '(sgml-note-change-at))
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633 + (setq after-change-functions '(sgml-set-face-after-change)))
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634 (sgml-with-parser-syntax-ro
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635
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636 * TeX'ing the Calc manual fails.
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637
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638 The following patches allow to build the Calc manual using texinfo.tex
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639 from Emacs 19.34 distribution:
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640
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641 *** calc-maint.e~0 Mon Dec 16 07:11:26 1996
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642 --- calc-maint.el Sun Dec 10 14:32:38 2000
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643 ***************
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644 *** 308,314 ****
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645 (insert "@tex\n"
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646 "\\global\\advance\\appendixno2\n"
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647 "\\gdef\\xref#1.{See ``#1.''}\n")
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648 ! (setq midpos (point))
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649 (insert "@end tex\n")
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650 (insert-buffer-substring srcbuf sumpos endpos)
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651 (insert "@bye\n")
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652 --- 308,314 ----
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653 (insert "@tex\n"
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654 "\\global\\advance\\appendixno2\n"
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655 "\\gdef\\xref#1.{See ``#1.''}\n")
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656 ! (setq midpos (point-marker))
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657 (insert "@end tex\n")
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658 (insert-buffer-substring srcbuf sumpos endpos)
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parents: 41247
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659 (insert "@bye\n")
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
660 *** Makefile.~0 Mon Dec 16 07:11:24 1996
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
661 --- Makefile Sun Dec 10 14:44:00 2000
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
662 ***************
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
663 *** 98,106 ****
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
664 # Format the Calc manual as one printable volume using TeX.
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
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parents: 41247
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665 tex:
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
666 $(REMOVE) calc.aux
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
667 ! $(TEX) calc.texinfo
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
668 $(TEXINDEX) calc.[cfkptv]?
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
669 ! $(TEX) calc.texinfo
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
670 $(PURGE) calc.cp calc.fn calc.pg calc.tp calc.vr
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
671 $(PURGE) calc.cps calc.fns calc.kys calc.pgs calc.tps calc.vrs
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
672 $(PURGE) calc.toc
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
673 --- 98,106 ----
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
674 # Format the Calc manual as one printable volume using TeX.
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
675 tex:
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
676 $(REMOVE) calc.aux
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
677 ! -$(TEX) calc.texinfo
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
678 $(TEXINDEX) calc.[cfkptv]?
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
679 ! -$(TEX) calc.texinfo
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Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
680 $(PURGE) calc.cp calc.fn calc.pg calc.tp calc.vr
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
681 $(PURGE) calc.cps calc.fns calc.kys calc.pgs calc.tps calc.vrs
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
682 $(PURGE) calc.toc
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parents: 41247
diff changeset
683
38012
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
684 * Unicode characters are not unified with other Mule charsets.
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
685
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37770
diff changeset
686 As of v21.1, Emacs charsets are still not unified. This means that
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
687 characters which belong to charsets such as Latin-2, Greek, Hebrew,
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
688 etc. and the same characters in the `mule-unicode-*' charsets are
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
689 different characters, as far as Emacs is concerned. For example, text
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
690 which includes Unicode characters from the Latin-2 locale cannot be
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
691 encoded by Emacs with ISO 8859-2 coding system; and if you yank Greek
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37770
diff changeset
692 text from a buffer whose buffer-file-coding-system is greek-iso-8bit
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
693 into a mule-unicode-0100-24ff buffer, Emacs won't be able to save that
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
694 buffer neither as ISO 8859-7 nor as UTF-8.
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
695
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
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parents: 37770
diff changeset
696 To work around this, install some add-on package such as Mule-UCS.
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37770
diff changeset
697
40488
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
698 * Problems when using Emacs with UTF-8 locales
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
699
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
700 Some systems, including recent versions of GNU/Linux, have terminals
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
701 or X11 subsystems that can be configured to provide Unicode/UTF-8
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
702 input and display. Normally, such a system sets environment variables
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
703 such as LANG, LC_CTYPE, or LC_ALL to a string which ends with a
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
704 `.UTF-8'. For example, a system like this in a French locale might
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
705 use `fr_FR.UTF-8' as the value of LANG.
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
706
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
707 Since Unicode support in Emacs, as of v21.1, is not yet complete (see
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
708 the previous entry in this file), UTF-8 support is not enabled by
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
709 default, even in UTF-8 locales. Thus, some Emacs features, such as
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
710 non-ASCII keyboard input, might appear to be broken in these locales.
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
711 To solve these problems, you need to turn on some options in your
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
712 `.emacs' file. Specifically, the following customizations should make
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
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parents: 40197
diff changeset
713 Emacs work correctly with UTF-8 input and text:
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
714
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
715 (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
716 (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
717 (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
718 (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
719 (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
554167b7ed9e Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40197
diff changeset
720
36112
1ddf9f48dc2f Document problems with oc-unicode.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 36004
diff changeset
721 * The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.
1ddf9f48dc2f Document problems with oc-unicode.
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parents: 36004
diff changeset
722
36813
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parents: 36550
diff changeset
723 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
fcca57f520e5 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 36550
diff changeset
724 slots now. If the built-in Unicode/UTF-8 support is insufficient,
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parents: 36550
diff changeset
725 e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package.
fcca57f520e5 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 36550
diff changeset
726 Any files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode won't be read
fcca57f520e5 *** empty log message ***
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 36550
diff changeset
727 correctly by Emacs 21.
35645
141f70353995 Add two items with solutions for Calc problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35575
diff changeset
728
39463
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
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parents: 39348
diff changeset
729 * Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error.
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
730
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
731 The error message might be something like this:
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
732
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
733 "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
734
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
735 This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
736 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
737 for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
738 corrects that.
6381cf3c37bd Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39348
diff changeset
739
33964
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
740 * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
741 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 33788
diff changeset
742 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support.
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
743 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 33788
diff changeset
744 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker.
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 33788
diff changeset
745
40496
32b7ea7d8293 Clarify that problems with shared libraries can also happen during the build.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40488
diff changeset
746 Similar problems could prevent Emacs from building, since the build
32b7ea7d8293 Clarify that problems with shared libraries can also happen during the build.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40488
diff changeset
747 process invokes Emacs several times.
32b7ea7d8293 Clarify that problems with shared libraries can also happen during the build.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 40488
diff changeset
748
33964
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
749 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
750 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
751 can be found.
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
752
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
753 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
754 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 33788
diff changeset
755 specified run-time search path in the executable.
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
756
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
757 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details.
686023ece47f *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33788
diff changeset
758
33788
6388939477a4 *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33614
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759 * On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
34001
fc9ba8a24dde *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33964
diff changeset
760 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
fc9ba8a24dde *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33964
diff changeset
761 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
fc9ba8a24dde *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33964
diff changeset
762 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
fc9ba8a24dde *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33964
diff changeset
763 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
fc9ba8a24dde *** empty log message ***
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parents: 33964
diff changeset
764 and the default CFLAGS.
33788
6388939477a4 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 33614
diff changeset
765
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
766 * Compiling syntax.c with the OPENSTEP 4.2 compiler gcc 2.7.2.1 fails.
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
767
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
768 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38058
diff changeset
769 following message:
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
770
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
771 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
772
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38058
diff changeset
773 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD,
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
774 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
775 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example:
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parents: 38058
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776
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
777 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from)
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
778 {
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parents: 38058
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779 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from));
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
780 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
781
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
782 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
783 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward.
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
784
39464
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
785 * Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts.
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
786
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
787 A typical error message might be something like
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
788
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
789 No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
790
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
791 This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
792 Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
793 are:
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
794
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
795 - in your ~/.Xdefaults file
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
796
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
797 - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
798 /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
799 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
800
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
801 One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
802 fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
803 the problematic line(s) and correct them.
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
804
38135
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
805 * Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup.
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
806
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
807 The typical error message might be like this:
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
808
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
809 "Cannot open load file: fontset"
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
810
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
811 This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
812 tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
813 files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
814 Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later,
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
815 when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
816 required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
817 its loaded very early in the startup procedure.)
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
818
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
819 Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
820 file could fail to load if it is compressed.
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
821
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
822 The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
823 file.
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
824
37633
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
825 * Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails.
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
826
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
827 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
828 representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the
41365
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
829 ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
830 version 2.4.3, with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
831 systems as well. To avoid this problem, switch to using the standard
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
832 ftp client. On a Debian system, type
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
833
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
834 update-alternatives --config ftp
37633
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
835
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
836 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp.
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
837
38919
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
838 * Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
839
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
840 The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
841 work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET"
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
842 was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
843 work when an antivirus package is installed.
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
844
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
845 The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
846 mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
847 or disable it entirely.
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
848
33614
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
849 * On Windows 95/98/ME, subprocesses do not terminate properly.
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
850
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
851 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
852 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
853 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
854 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/doc/index.html
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
855
33455
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
856 * Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
857 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
858 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
859 seen.
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
860
38580
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
861 * After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs, the Meta key stops working.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
862
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
863 This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
864 Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
865 modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
866 keyboard where the Windows key is the one which produces the Meta
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
867 modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
868 was not hacked by Mandrake, expected the Alt key to continue to act as
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
869 Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
870
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
871 The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
872 modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
873 and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
874 which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
875 the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
876 modifier:
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
877
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
878 xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt"
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
879
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
880 A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
881 is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system:
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
882
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
883 xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
884
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
885 This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
886 keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
887 keys can serve as Meta.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
888
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
889 The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
890 keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
891
31514
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
892 * On OSF/Dec Unix/Tru64/<whatever it is this year> under X locally or
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
893 remotely, M-SPC acts as a `compose' key with strange results. See
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
894 keyboard(5).
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
895
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
896 Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it:
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
897 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L'
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
898 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R'
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
899
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
900 * Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
901
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
902 Install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this problem should go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
903 It is possible that this problem results from upgrading the operating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
904 system without reinstalling GCC; so you could also try reinstalling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
905 the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
906
39466
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
907 * Emacs dumps core on Solaris in function IMCheckWindow.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
908
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
909 This was reported to happen when Emacs runs with more than one frame,
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
910 and one of them is closed, either with "C-x 5 0" or from the window
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
911 manager.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
912
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
913 This bug was reported to Sun as
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
914
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
915 Gtk apps dump core in ximlocal.so.2:IMCheckIMWindow()
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
916 Bug Reports: 4463537
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
917
39467
7d3bfda9bf1d Fix last change.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39466
diff changeset
918 Installing Solaris 8 patch 108773-12 for Sparc and 108774-12 for x86
39466
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
919 reportedly fixes the bug, which appears to be inside the shared
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
920 library xiiimp.so.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
921
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
922 Alternatively, you can configure Emacs with `--with-xim=no' to prevent
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
923 the core dump, but will loose X input method support, of course. (You
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
924 can use Emacs's own input methods instead, if you install Leim.)
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
925
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
926 * On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
927
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
928 This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
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929 assembler) if you use GCC version 2.7 or later.
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
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930 To work around it, either install patch 106950-03 or later,
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
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parents: 25853
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931 or uninstall patch 107058-01, or install the GNU Binutils.
25853
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932 Then recompile Emacs, and it should work.
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933
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934 * With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup.
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935
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936 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem.
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937
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938 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999
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939 +++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999
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940 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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941 -/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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942 +/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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943 /******************************************************************
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944
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945 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED
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946 @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
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947 _XimMakeImName(lcd)
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948 XLCd lcd;
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949 {
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950 - char* begin;
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951 - char* end;
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952 + char* begin = NULL;
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953 + char* end = NULL;
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954 char* ret;
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955 int i = 0;
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956 char* ximmodifier = XIMMODIFIER;
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957 @@ -182,7 +182,11 @@
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958 }
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959 ret = Xmalloc(end - begin + 2);
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parents:
diff changeset
960 if (ret != NULL) {
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parents:
diff changeset
961 - (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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parents:
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962 + if (begin != NULL) {
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diff changeset
963 + (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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parents:
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964 + } else {
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parents:
diff changeset
965 + ret[0] = '\0';
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966 + }
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parents:
diff changeset
967 ret[end - begin + 1] = '\0';
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diff changeset
968 }
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969 return ret;
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parents:
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970
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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971
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parents:
diff changeset
972 * Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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973
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
974 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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975
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
976 * Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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977
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
978 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
979 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up.
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980
34880
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
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parents: 34721
diff changeset
981 * The S-C-t key combination doesn't get passed to Emacs on X.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
982
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
983 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
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parents: 34721
diff changeset
984 combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
985 definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
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parents: 34721
diff changeset
986 might be other similar combinations which are grabbed by X for similar
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
987 purposes.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
988
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
989 We think that this can be countermanded with the `xmodmap' utility, if
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
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parents: 34721
diff changeset
990 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
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parents: 34721
diff changeset
991
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992 * On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use
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993 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).
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994
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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995 You can fix this by editing the file:
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996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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997 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose
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998
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parents:
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999 Near the bottom there is a line that reads:
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1000
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1001 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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1002
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1003 that should read:
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1004
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1005 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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1006
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1007 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work.
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parents:
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1008
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parents:
diff changeset
1009 * Emacs on Digital Unix 4.0 fails to build, giving error message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1010 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160
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parents:
diff changeset
1011
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parents:
diff changeset
1012 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1013 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1014
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parents:
diff changeset
1015 * Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1016
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parents:
diff changeset
1017 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1018 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1019 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem.
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parents:
diff changeset
1020
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parents:
diff changeset
1021 * Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1022
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1023 These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1024 particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1025 configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1026 configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1027 change this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1028
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1029 * When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1030
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1031 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1032 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1033 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1034 correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1035 gives the appearance of "double spacing".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1036
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1037 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1038 feature (in the font part of the configuration window).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1039
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1040 * Failure in unexec while dumping emacs on Digital Unix 4.0
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1041
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1042 This problem manifests itself as an error message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1043
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1044 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1045
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1046 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1047 were built for an older system version,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1048
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parents:
diff changeset
1049 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
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parents:
diff changeset
1050
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1051 made the problem go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1052
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1053 * No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1054
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1055 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1056 as of 8 Dec 1998.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1057
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1058 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1059
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1060 * As of version 20.4, Emacs doesn't work properly if configured for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1061 the Motif toolkit and linked against the free LessTif library. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1062 next Emacs release is expected to work with LessTif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1063
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1064 * Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1065
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1066 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1067 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1068 likely to cause it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1069
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1070 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1071
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1072 * Emacs makes HPUX 11.0 crash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1073
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1074 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1075
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1076 * Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine (HPUX 10.20).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1077
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1078 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1079
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1080 * The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1081 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1082 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1083 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1084
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1085 * Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1086 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1087 Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1088 earlier versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1089
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1090 --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1
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parents:
diff changeset
1091 +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1092 @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti
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parents:
diff changeset
1093 (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil))
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parents:
diff changeset
1094 (cond
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parents:
diff changeset
1095 ((stringp entity) ; a file name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1096 - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1097 + (insert-file-contents entity)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1098 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity)))
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parents:
diff changeset
1099 ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id?
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1100 (let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity))
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parents:
diff changeset
1101
35907
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1102 * Emacs 21 freezes when visiting a TeX file with AUC TeX installed.
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1103
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1104 Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUC TeX; upgrading should solve
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1105 these problems.
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1106
41319
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1107 * No colors in AUC TeX with Emacs 21.
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1108
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1109 Upgrade to AUC TeX version 10 or later, and make sure it is
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1110 byte-compiled with Emacs 21.
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1111
35907
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1112 * Running TeX from AUC TeX package with Emacs 20.3 gives a Lisp error
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1113 about a read-only tex output buffer.
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parents:
diff changeset
1114
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1115 This problem appeared for AUC TeX version 9.9j and some earlier
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1116 versions. Here is a patch for the file tex-buf.el in the AUC TeX
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parents:
diff changeset
1117 package.
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parents:
diff changeset
1118
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1119 diff -c auctex/tex-buf.el~ auctex/tex-buf.el
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parents:
diff changeset
1120 *** auctex/tex-buf.el~ Wed Jul 29 18:35:32 1998
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parents:
diff changeset
1121 --- auctex/tex-buf.el Sat Sep 5 15:20:38 1998
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parents:
diff changeset
1122 ***************
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parents:
diff changeset
1123 *** 545,551 ****
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parents:
diff changeset
1124 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
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parents:
diff changeset
1125 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
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parents:
diff changeset
1126 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
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parents:
diff changeset
1127 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer)
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parents:
diff changeset
1128 (set-buffer buffer)
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parents:
diff changeset
1129 (if dir (cd dir))
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parents:
diff changeset
1130 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
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parents:
diff changeset
1131 - --- 545,552 ----
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parents:
diff changeset
1132 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
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parents:
diff changeset
1133 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
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parents:
diff changeset
1134 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
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parents:
diff changeset
1135 ! (let (temp-buffer-show-function temp-buffer-show-hook)
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parents:
diff changeset
1136 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer))
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parents:
diff changeset
1137 (set-buffer buffer)
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parents:
diff changeset
1138 (if dir (cd dir))
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parents:
diff changeset
1139 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1140
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1141 * On Irix 6.3, substituting environment variables in file names
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1142 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as
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parents:
diff changeset
1143
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1144 Substituting nonexistent environment variable ""
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parents:
diff changeset
1145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1146 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1147 003082 August 11, 1998.
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parents:
diff changeset
1148
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parents:
diff changeset
1149 * After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1150
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1151 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
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1152 (standard-display-european t)
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1153 That should be changed to
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diff changeset
1154 (standard-display-european 1 t)
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1155
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1156 * Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.
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1157
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1158 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
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1159 supplies the `install-info' command.
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1160
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1161 * Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key, on HPUX.
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1162
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1163 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable
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1164 rights, containing this text:
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1165
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1166 --------------------------------
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1167 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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1168 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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1169 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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1170 EOF
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1171
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1172 xmodmap - << EOF
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1173 clear mod1
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1174 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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1175 add mod1 = Meta_L
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1176 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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1177 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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1178 EOF
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1179 --------------------------------
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1180
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1181 * Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed.
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1182
38279
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
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1183 This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
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1184 requests the X clipboard contents from applications. Early versions
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
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1185 of klipper don't implement the ICCM protocol for large selections,
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
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1186 which leads to Emacs being flooded with selection requests. After a
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1187 while, Emacs will print a message:
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1188
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1189 Timed out waiting for property-notify event
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1190
38279
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1191 A workaround is to not use `klipper'.
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1192
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1193 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files
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1194 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any
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1195 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'.
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1196
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1197 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style
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1198 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A
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1199 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name.
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1200
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1201 * M-SPC seems to be ignored as input.
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1202
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1203 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command
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1204 for character composition.
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1205
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1206 * Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow.
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1207
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1208 This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the
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1209 full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the
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1210 /etc/hosts file, something like this:
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1211
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1212 127.0.0.1 localhost
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1213 129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04
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1214
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1215 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.
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1216
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1217 * Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs on Digital Unix 4.0.
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1218
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1219 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM
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diff changeset
1220 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays
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1221 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running
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1222 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix
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1223 in Emacs.
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1224
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diff changeset
1225 * When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error.
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parents:
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1226
38026
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1227 This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
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1228 characters only and then try to use it from Emacs with non-ASCII
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1229 characters, like Latin-1. The solution is to recompile Ispell with
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1230 support for 8-bit characters.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1231
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1232 To see whether your Ispell program supports 8-bit characters, type
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1233 this at your shell's prompt:
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1234
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1235 ispell -vv
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1236
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1237 and look in the output for the string "NO8BIT". If Ispell says
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1238 "!NO8BIT (8BIT)", your speller supports 8-bit characters; otherwise it
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1239 does not.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1240
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1241 To rebuild Ispell with 8-bit character support, edit the local.h file
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1242 in the Ispell distribution and make sure it does _not_ define NO8BIT.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1243 Then rebuild the speller.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1244
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1245 Another possible cause for "misalignment" error messages is that the
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1246 version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1247
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1248 Yet another possibility is that you are trying to spell-check a word
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1249 in a language that doesn't fit the dictionary you choose for use by
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1250 Ispell. (Ispell can only spell-check one language at a time, because
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1251 it uses a single dictionary.) Make sure that the text you are
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1252 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other.
25853
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1253
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parents:
diff changeset
1254 * On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1255 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1256
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1257 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1258 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1259 known to work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1260
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1261 * On Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1262 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1264 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1266 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1267 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1268 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1269 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1270 AltGr has been pressed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1271
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1272 * Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1273
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1274 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1275 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1276 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1277 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1278
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1279 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1280 well. The problem lies in the X-server settings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1281
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1282 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1283 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1284 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1285 selection".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1286
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parents:
diff changeset
1287 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1288 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1289 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1290 here.
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parents:
diff changeset
1291
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1292 * On Solaris 2, Emacs dumps core when built with Motif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1293
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1294 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1295 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1296 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1297 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1298 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1299 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1300 are currently recommended for your host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1301
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1302 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1303 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1304 105284-18 might fix it again.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1305
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1306 * On Solaris 2.6 and 7, the Compose key does not work.
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1307
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1308 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1309 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1310 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch.
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1311 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1312
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1313 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1314 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1315 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1316 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1317 should do.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1318
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1319 pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1320 if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1321 libraries.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1322
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1323 * Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1324
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1325 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1326 either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1327 calls for specifying this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1328
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1329 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1330 mail-host-address to the value you want.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1331
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1332 * Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs, on UnixWare 2.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1333
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1334 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1335 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1336 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1337 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1338 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1339 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1340
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1341 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1342 But you have to be root to do it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1343
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1344 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1345
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1346 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1347 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard "
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1348 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1349 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard "
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1350 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
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1351
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1352 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.)
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1353 These changes take effect when you reboot.
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1354
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1355 * Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1356
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1357 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when
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1358 scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this
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parents:
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1359 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1360 on the right (as they were in Emacs 19).
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1361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1362 Here's how to do this:
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1363
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1364 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
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1365
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1366 If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1367 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1368 to normal, do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1369
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parents:
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1370 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left)
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parents:
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1371
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1372 * Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes.
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parents:
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1373
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parents:
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1374 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1375 supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1376 many different fonts, collected into a fontset.
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parents:
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1377
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1378 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1379 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1380 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1381
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1382 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1383 display all the characters Emacs supports.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1384
35249
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
diff changeset
1385 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
diff changeset
1386 missing glyph and no default character. This is known ot occur for
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
diff changeset
1387 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35152
diff changeset
1388 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
diff changeset
1389 of this character to display a space.
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
diff changeset
1390
25853
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parents:
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1391 * Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines.
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parents:
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1392
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1393 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1394
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1395 * Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1396
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1397 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1398 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1399 lines do not overlap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1400
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1401 * You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1402 video, but later frames are not in inverse video.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1403
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1404 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1405 your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1406 check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1407
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1408 * In FreeBSD 2.1.5, useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1409 directories that have the +t bit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1410
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1411 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1412 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1413 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1414 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1415
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parents:
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1416 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1417 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1418
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1419 * When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1420 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1421
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parents:
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1422 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit':
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1423
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1424 dbxenv output_short_file_name off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1425
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1426 * Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1427 appear on disk.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1428
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parents:
diff changeset
1429 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1430 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1431 implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1432 detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1433 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1434 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1435
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1436 * "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1437
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1438 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1439 will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1440 in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1441 did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1442 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1443 must pick one meaning or the other for any given key.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1444
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1445 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1446 them to two different keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1448 * Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup, on AIX4.2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1449
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1450 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1451 without optimization; that should avoid the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1452
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1453 * movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1454
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1455 Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1456 NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1457 entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1458 listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1459 the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1460 old POP protocol.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1461
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1462 * Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1463
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1464 This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1465 use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1466 an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1467 happens to exist on your X server).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1468
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1469 * Emacs crashes when you use Bibtex mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1470
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1471 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1472 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit')
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1473 to raise the stack size limit before you run Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1474
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1475 Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1476 (src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1477
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1478 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on HPUX 9 after you delete a frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1479
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1480 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1481 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1482 does not happen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1483
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1484 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1485
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1486 We suspect that this is a similar bug in the X libraries provided by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1487 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1488 makes the problem stop:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1489
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1490 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02
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parents:
diff changeset
1491 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1492 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1493 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1494
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1495 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1496 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1497
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1498 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1499 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1500 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1501
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1502 * Problems running Perl under Emacs on Windows NT/95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1503
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1504 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1505 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1506
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1507 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1508 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1509 with the user.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1510
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1511 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1512 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1513 communicate with the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1514
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1515 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1516 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1517 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1518 stdin.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1519
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1520 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1521
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1522 For Perl 4:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1523
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1524 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1525 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1526 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1527 *** 68,74 ****
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parents:
diff changeset
1528 $rcfile=".perldb";
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parents:
diff changeset
1529 }
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parents:
diff changeset
1530 else {
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parents:
diff changeset
1531 ! $console = "con";
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parents:
diff changeset
1532 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1533 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1534
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1535 --- 68,74 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1536 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1537 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1538 else {
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parents:
diff changeset
1539 ! $console = "";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1540 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1541 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1542
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1544 For Perl 5:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1545 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1546 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1547 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1548 *** 22,28 ****
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1549 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1550 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1551 elsif (-e "con") {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1552 ! $console = "con";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1553 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1554 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1555 else {
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parents:
diff changeset
1556 --- 22,28 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1557 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1558 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1559 elsif (-e "con") {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1560 ! $console = "";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1561 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1562 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1563 else {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1564
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1565 * Problems running DOS programs on Windows NT versions earlier than 3.51.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1566
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1567 Some DOS programs, such as pkzip/pkunzip will not work at all, while
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1568 others will only work if their stdin is redirected from a file or NUL.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1569
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1570 When a DOS program does not work, a new process is actually created, but
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1571 hangs. It cannot be interrupted from Emacs, and might need to be killed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1572 by an external program if Emacs is hung waiting for the process to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1573 finish. If Emacs is not waiting for it, you should be able to kill the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1574 instance of ntvdm that is running the hung process from Emacs, if you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1575 can find out the process id.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1576
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1577 It is safe to run most DOS programs using call-process (eg. M-! and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1578 M-|) since stdin is then redirected from a file, but not with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1579 start-process since that redirects stdin to a pipe. Also, running DOS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1580 programs in a shell buffer prompt without redirecting stdin does not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1581 work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1582
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1583 * Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1584
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1585 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1586
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1587 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1588 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com';
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1589 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1590
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1591 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos
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1592 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link
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1593 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the
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1594 incorrect library functions.
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1595
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1596 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
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1597
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1598 If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
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1599 Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
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1600 program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
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1601 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
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1602 the front of your PATH environment variable.
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1603
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1604 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
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1605 like make-docfile.
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1606
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1607 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
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1608 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
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1609 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
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1610 the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
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1611
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1612 * Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other
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1613 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled.
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1614
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1615 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits
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1616 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find
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1617 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout
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1618 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs.
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1619
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1620 Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load
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1621 the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and
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1622 Lisp.
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1623
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1624 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN
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1625 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6
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1626 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
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1627 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
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1628 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
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1629 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
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1630 explains this issue in more detail.
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1631
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1632 Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for
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1633 MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported
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1634 by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an
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1635 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating
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1636 them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs
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1637 must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are
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1638 properly truncated.
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1639
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1640 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
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1641
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1642 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face"
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1643
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1644 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs
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1645 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the
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1646 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then
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1647 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't
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1648 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be
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1649 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an
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1650 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for
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1651 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of
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1652 your system works as before.
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1653
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1654 * On Windows 95, Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs.
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1655
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1656 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95.
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1657 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6.
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1658
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1659 * Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on Windows 95.
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1660
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1661 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If
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1662 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
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1663 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way.
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1664
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1665 * `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.
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1666
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1667 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in
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1668 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1669 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also
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1670 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1671 does not work with this version of ncurses.
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1672
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1673 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
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1674
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1675 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
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1676
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1677 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1678 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such
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1679 as GCC.
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1680
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1681 * Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly truncated
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1682 on GNU/Linux systems.
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1683
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1684 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version
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1685 1.3.75.
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1686
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1687 * Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems.
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1688
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1689 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16
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diff changeset
1690 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1691 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1692 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16.
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1693
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1694 Using the old library version is a workaround.
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1695
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1696 * On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time).
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1697
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diff changeset
1698 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise
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1699 version of Solaris that you are using.
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1700
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1701 * Emacs dumps core on startup, on Solaris.
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1702
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1703 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch
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diff changeset
1704 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1705 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem
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diff changeset
1706 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1707 However, that linker version won't work with CDE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1708
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diff changeset
1709 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if
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diff changeset
1710 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
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diff changeset
1711 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1712 for certain.
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1713
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diff changeset
1714 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
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diff changeset
1715 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
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diff changeset
1716 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1717
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diff changeset
1718 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
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diff changeset
1719 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1720
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diff changeset
1721 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell
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parents:
diff changeset
1722 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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1723
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parents:
diff changeset
1724 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and
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diff changeset
1725 Solaris 2.5.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1726
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parents:
diff changeset
1727 * Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called, on Solaris.
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parents:
diff changeset
1728
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parents:
diff changeset
1729 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1730 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1731 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1733 * "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes on HPUX, in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1734 Emacs built with Motif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1735
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1736 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1737 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1738
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parents:
diff changeset
1739 * On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1740
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1741 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1742 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1743 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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parents:
diff changeset
1744
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1745 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1746
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1747 * "out of virtual swap space" on Irix 5.3
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1749 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1750 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1751 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1752 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1753 command `swap -l'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1754
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1755 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1756 line like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
1757
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diff changeset
1758 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0
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parents:
diff changeset
1759
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1760 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1761 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1762 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1763 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1764 information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1765
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diff changeset
1766 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1767 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1768 on the network that can log on to the host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1769
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1770 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1771 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1772 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1773 icons.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1774
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1775 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1776 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1777 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1778 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1779
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parents:
diff changeset
1780 * With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1781 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1782
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1783 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1784 away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1785 XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1786
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1787 * On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1788
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1789 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1790 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1791 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1792 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1793
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diff changeset
1794 * On SunOS 4, Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1795 (or log out, if you logged in using X).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1796
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1797 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1798
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1799 * On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1800 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1801
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parents:
diff changeset
1802 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1803 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1804 Definitions" to make them defined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1805
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parents:
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1806 * On SunOS, you get linker errors
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parents:
diff changeset
1807 ld: Undefined symbol
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1808 _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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1809 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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1810
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1811 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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1812 or link libXmu statically.
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1813
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1814 * On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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1815 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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1816 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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1817
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1818 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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1819 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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1820 you build Emacs:
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1821
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1822 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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1823 chmod 664 libIM.a
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1824 ranlib libIM.a
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1825
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1826 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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1827 Makefile).
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1828
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1829 * Unpredictable segmentation faults on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4.
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1830
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1831 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with
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1832 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0.
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1833
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1834 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
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1835
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1836 * Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for
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1837 Windows.
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1838
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1839 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
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1840 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
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1841 problem.
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1842
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1843 * Emacs crashes at startup on MSDOS.
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1844
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1845 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management,
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1846 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet
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1847 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real
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1848 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler.
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1849 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround.
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1850
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1851 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without
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1852 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more
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1853 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp
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1854 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.)
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1855
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1856 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory
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1857 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider
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1858 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches)
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1859 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See
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1860 the djgpp faq for configuration hints.
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1861
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1862 * A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
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1863
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1864 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
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1865 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
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1866
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1867 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position
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1868
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1869 * Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c.
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1870
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1871 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve
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1872 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
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1873 Emacs's configure script.
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1874
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1875 * Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c.
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1876
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1877 This results from a bug in GNU Sed version 2.03. To solve the
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1878 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's
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1879 configure script.
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1880
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1881 * On Sunos 4.1.1, there are errors compiling sysdep.c.
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1882
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1883 If you get errors such as
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1884
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1885 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
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1886 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
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1887 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined
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1888
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1889 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky
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1890 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure
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1891 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must
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1892 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same
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1893 ones available when you build Emacs.
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1894
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1895 * The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
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1896 other non-English HP keyboards too).
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1897
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1898 This is because HPUX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
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1899 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
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1900 configures the X server.
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1901
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1902 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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1903 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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1904 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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1905 EOF
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1906
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1907 xmodmap - << EOF
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1908 clear mod1
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1909 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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1910 add mod1 = Meta_L
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1911 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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1912 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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1913 EOF
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1914
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1915 * The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
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1916
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1917 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
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1918 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
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1919 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
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1920 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
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1921 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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1922
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1923 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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1924
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1925 * Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse.
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1926
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1927 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and
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1928 that replacing the mouse made it stop.
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1929
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1930 * Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
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1931
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1932 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
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1933 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
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1934 to allocate ptys reliably.
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1935
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1936 * On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
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1937
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1938 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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1939 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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1940 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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1941 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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1942 syms.h.
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1943
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1944 * Slow startup on Linux-based GNU systems.
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1945
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1946 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
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1947 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
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1948
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1949 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
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1950 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
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1951 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
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1952 networked and non-networked machines.
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1953
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1954 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
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1955
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1956 ** Networked Case
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1957
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1958 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
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1959 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
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1960 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
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1961
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1962 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME
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1963
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1964 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
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1965 lines:
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1966
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1967 order hosts, bind
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1968 multi on
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1969
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1970 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
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1971 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
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1972 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
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1973 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
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1974
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1975 ** Non-Networked Case
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1976
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1977 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
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1978 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
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1979 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
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1980 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
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1981 file is not necessary with this approach.
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1982
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1983 * On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
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1984 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
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1985
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1986 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
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1987 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
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1988
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1989 #if ThreadedX
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1990 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1991 #endif
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1992
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1993 to:
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1994
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1995 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
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1996 #if ThreadedX
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1997 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1998 #endif
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1999 #endif
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2000
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2001 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
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2002 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
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2003 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
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2004 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
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2005 definition for your type of machine and system.
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2006
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2007 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
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2008 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
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2009 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
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2010
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2011 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch
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2012 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
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2013 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
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2014 patch.
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2015
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2016 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
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2017 he changed
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2018 #define ThreadedX YES
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2019 to
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2020 #define ThreadedX NO
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2021 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
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2022 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
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2023 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
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2024
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2025 * With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice
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2026 to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
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2027
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2028 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
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2029 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
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2030 another escape character in kermit. One user did
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2031
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2032 set escape-character 17
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2033
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2034 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
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2035
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2036 * The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
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2037
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2038 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
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2039
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2040 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
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2041
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2042 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
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2043 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
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2044 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
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2045 the resource prevents the problem.
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2046
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2047 * Emacs gets hung shortly after startup, on Sunos 4.1.3.
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2048
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2049 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that
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2050 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug:
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2051
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2052 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01
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2053 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01
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2054 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01
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2055 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02
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2056 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
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2057
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2058 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out
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2059 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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2060
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2061 * Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X.
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2062
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2063 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was
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2064 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to
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2065 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes
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2066 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use
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2067 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers.
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2068 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header
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2069 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2070 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs
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2071 not to work.
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2072
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2073 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir
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2074 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir
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2075 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2076 same directory where system header files are kept.
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2077
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2078 * On Solaris 2.x, GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported"
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2079
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2080 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you
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2081 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this
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2082 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or
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2083 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as
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2084 described in the Solaris FAQ
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2085 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is
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2086 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later.
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2087
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2088 * The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
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2089
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2090 This shell command should fix it:
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2091
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2092 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
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2093
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2094 * Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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2095
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2096 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
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2097 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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2098 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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2099 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
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2100 GCC.
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2101
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2102 * On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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2103
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2104 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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2105 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
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2106 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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2107
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2108 * You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version).
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2109
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2110 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus
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2111 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2112 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in
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2113 the Files menu).
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2114
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2115 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is
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2116 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really
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2117 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a
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2118 workaround can be found.
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2119
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2120 * Unusable default font on SCO 3.2v4.
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2121
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2122 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings
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2123 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such
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2124 fonts, so it does not work.
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2125
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2126 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is
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2127 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal
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2128 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources
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2129 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these
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2130 resources affect Emacs also:
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2131
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2132 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-*
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2133 *Background: scoBackground
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2134 *Foreground: scoForeground
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2135
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2136 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for
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2137 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents:
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2138
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2139 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
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2140 Emacs*Background: white
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2141 Emacs*Foreground: black
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2142
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diff changeset
2143 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to
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2144 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server
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2145 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop
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2146 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell
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2147 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the
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2148 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs,
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2149 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the
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2150 Open Desktop display.
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2151
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2152 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO
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2153 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually.
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2154
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2155 * rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields".
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2156
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2157 This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk.
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2158 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk).
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2159
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2160 * Emacs is slow using X11R5 on HP/UX.
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2161
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2162 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it
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2163 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version
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2164 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a,
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2165 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with
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2166 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to
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2167 install them and rebuild Emacs.
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2168
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2169 * Loading fonts is very slow.
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2170
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2171 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps.
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2172 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font
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2173 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file
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2174 "fonts.scale".
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2175
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2176 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable
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2177 font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details.
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2178
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2179 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font
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2180 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26.
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2181 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary.
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2182
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2183 * On AIX 3.2.4, releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down.
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2184
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2185 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is
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2186 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can
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2187 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are
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2188 treated as control characters.
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2189
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2190 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2191 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.
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2192
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2193 * display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.
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parents:
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2194
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parents:
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2195 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
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2196 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2197 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2198 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2199 processes die, in particular pcnfsd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2200
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2201 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2202 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2203
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2204 The only known fix: Don't run display-time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2205
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2206 * On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
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parents:
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2207
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parents:
diff changeset
2208 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2209 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2210
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parents:
diff changeset
2211 * Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2212 segmentation fault and core dump.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2213
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parents:
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2214 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2215 added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2216
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parents:
diff changeset
2217 x FILENAME, N bytes, B tape blocks
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2218
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parents:
diff changeset
2219 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2220 untar it :-).
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parents:
diff changeset
2221
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parents:
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2222 * Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
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parents:
diff changeset
2223
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parents:
diff changeset
2224 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2226 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2227
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2228 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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parents:
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2229
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2230 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2231 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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parents:
diff changeset
2232
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2233 * Link failure on IBM AIX 1.3 ptf 0013.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2234
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parents:
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2235 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2236 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2237 workaround/fix is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2238
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parents:
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2239 cd /lib
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2240 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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parents:
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2241 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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parents:
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2242
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parents:
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2243 * Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose on a Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2244
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2245 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2246 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2247 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2248 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2249 toolkit.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2250
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parents:
diff changeset
2251 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2252 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2253 X11R4, then use it in the link.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2254
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parents:
diff changeset
2255 * Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2256
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2257 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded.
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parents:
diff changeset
2258 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2259 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2260 where-is-internal in an obsolete way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2261
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2262 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2264 * In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
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parents:
diff changeset
2265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2266 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2267 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2268 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2269 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
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parents:
diff changeset
2270
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2271 if ($?EMACS) then
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parents:
diff changeset
2272 if ($EMACS == "t") then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2273 unset edit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2274 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2275 endif
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2276 endif
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2277
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2278 * An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2279 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2280
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2281 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2282 emacs*Cursor: black
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2283 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2284 that isn't a color.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2285
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2286 The fix is to correct your X resources.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2287
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2288 * Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1 using --with-x-toolkit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2289
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2290 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2291 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2292 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2293
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2294 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2295 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2296
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2297 * Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server.
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2298
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2299 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is
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2300 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs.
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2301 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem.
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2302
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2303 * src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
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2304
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2305 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
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2306 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.
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2307
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2308 * Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows.
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2309
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2310 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X
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2311 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font
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2312 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1
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2313 font.
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2314
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2315 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from
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2316 your font path, like this:
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2317
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2318 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
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2319
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2320 * Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs.
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2321
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2322 An X resource of this form can cause the problem:
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2323
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2324 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0
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2325
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2326 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus
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2327 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2328 want, rewrite the resource.
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2329
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2330 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2331 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2332 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files.
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2333
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2334 * --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries.
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2335
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2336 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2337 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X
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2338 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared
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2339 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2340 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4
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2341 and Solaris in version 19.29.
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2342
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2343 * `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'.
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2344
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2345 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar
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2346 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2347 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by
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2348 hand.
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2349
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2350 * --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong on BSD/386.
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2351
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2352 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386.
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2353 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell,
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2354 such as bash.
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2355
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2356 * Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies, on Sunos 5.3.
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2357
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2358 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs
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2359 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only
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2360 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses
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2361 communicating through pipes.
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2362
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2363 * Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
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2364
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2365 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
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2366 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
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2367 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
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2368 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
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2369 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
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2370 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
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2371 obtain the destination address.
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2372
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2373 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
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2374 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
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2375 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
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2376 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
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2377 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
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2378 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
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2379 of this writing, these official versions are available:
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2380
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2381 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
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2382 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
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2383 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
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2384 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
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2385 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
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2386
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2387 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
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2388 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
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2389
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2390 * On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
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2391
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2392 Could not load program emacs
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2393 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
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2394 Error was: Exec format error
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2395
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2396 or this one:
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2397
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2398 Could not load program .emacs
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2399 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
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2400 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
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2401 Error was: Exec format error
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2402
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2403 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
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2404 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
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2405
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2406 * On AIX, you get this compiler error message:
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2407
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2408 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
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2409 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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2410
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2411 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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2412 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2413 X11Dev... with smit.
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2414
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2415 * You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key.
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2416
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2417 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym
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2418 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11
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2419 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key
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2420 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap.
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2421
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2422 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key:
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2423
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2424 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L"
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2425
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2426 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to
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2427 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the
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2428 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display.
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2429
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2430 * C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2431
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2432 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2433 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2434 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2435
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2436 * Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2437
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2438 These control the actions of Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2439 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2440 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2441 "load" will search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2442
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2443 If you observe strange problems, check for these and get rid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2444 of them, then try again.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2445
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2446 * After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2448 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2449 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2450 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2451
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2452 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2453 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2454 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
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parents:
diff changeset
2455 configure script) that reads:
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parents:
diff changeset
2456 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
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parents:
diff changeset
2457 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2458 the kernel bug.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2459
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2460 * Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2461 directly with an X server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2462
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2463 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2464 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2465 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2466 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2467 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2468 have made the key binding correctly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2469
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2470 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2471 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2472 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2473 default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2474
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2475 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2476
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2477 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2478 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2479
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2480 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2481 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2482 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2483 modifier bit not otherwise used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2484
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2485 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2486 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2487 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2488 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2489
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2490 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2491 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2492
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2493 * `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2494
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2495 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2496 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2497 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2498 value is just ten seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2499
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2500 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2501
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2502 * `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2503
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2504 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2505 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2506 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2507 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2508
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2509 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2510 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2511
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2512 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2513 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2514 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2515 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2516
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2517 * On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2518
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2519 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2520 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2521 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2522
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2523 * Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2524
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2525 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2526
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2527 * Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2528 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2529 * Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2530 * GNUs can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2532 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2533 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2534 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2535 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
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2536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2537 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2538 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2539
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2540 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2541 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2542
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2543 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2544
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2545 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2546 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2547 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2548 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2549 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2550 be careful not to lose the others.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2551
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2552 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2553
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2554 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2555
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2556 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2557 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2558 again to say this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2559
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2560 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2561
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2562 * On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2563
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2564 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2565
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2566 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2567
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2568 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2569
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2570 * Self documentation messages are garbled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2571
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2572 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2573 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2574 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2575
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2576 * Trouble using ptys on AIX.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2577
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2578 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2579 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2580
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2581 * Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2582
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2583 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2584
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2585 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2586 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2587 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2588 but tty is giving it back 3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2589
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2590 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2591 word:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2592
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2593 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2594
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2595 should be changed to:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2596
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2597 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2598
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2599 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2600 and into .login.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2601
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2602 * Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2603
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2604 Use the shell command `xset bc' to make the old X Menu package work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2605
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2606 * Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2607 * `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2608
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2609 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2610 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2611 the environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2612
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2613 * Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2614
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2615 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2616 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2617 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2618 with a floating point option other than the default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2620 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2621 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2622 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2623 floating point option: -fsoft.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2624
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2625 * Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2626
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2627 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2628 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2629 tell Emacs to compensate for this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2630
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2631 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2632 whether this problem is present on a given system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2633
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2634 * Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2635 as a concentrator.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2636
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2637 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2638 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2639
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2640 * M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2641
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2642 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2643 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2644
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2645 * Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2646 terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2647
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2648 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2649 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2650 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2651 emulates.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2652
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2653 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2654 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2655 it only if it is undefined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2656
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2657 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2658
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2659 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2660 happen in a non-login shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2661
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2662 * X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2663
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2664 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2665 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2666 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2667 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2668
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2669 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2670 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2671 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2672
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2673 The easy way to do this is to put
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2674
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2675 (setq x-sigio-bug t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2676
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2677 in your site-init.el file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2678
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2679 * Problem with remote X server on Suns.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2680
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2681 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2682 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2683 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2684 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2685
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2686 * Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2688 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2690 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2691
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2692 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2693 Here is how to make more of them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2694
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2695 % cd /dev
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2696 % ls pty*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2697 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2698 % /etc/crpty 8
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2699 # creates eight new pty's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2700
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2701 * Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2702
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2703 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2704 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2705
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2706 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2707 space available on the machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2708
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2709 On 68000's, it has also happened because of bugs in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2710 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2711 for large blocks (many pages).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2712
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2713 * test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2714 * or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2715 * or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2716 * or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2717
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2718 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2719 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2720 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2722 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2723 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2724 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2725 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2726 when unpacking the shell archive.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2727
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2728 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2729 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2730 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2731
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2732 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2733 nonprinting characters, you can fix them:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2734
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2735 1) Record the names of all the .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2736 2) Delete all the .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2737 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2738 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2739 4) Remake emacs. It should work now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2740 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2741 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2742 You may need to increase the value of the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2743 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2744 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2745 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2746 and remake temacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2747 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2749 * temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2750
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2751 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2752 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2753 space than was allocated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2754
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2755 This could be caused by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2756 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2757 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2758 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2759 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2760 if you have received Emacs from some other site
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2761 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2762 deleting that file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2763 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2764 (not from the directory you expected).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2765 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2766 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2767 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2768 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2769 the space required.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2770
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2771 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2772 of PURESIZE in puresize.h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2773
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2774 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2775 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2776 problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2777
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2778 * Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2779
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2780 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2781 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2782 will not be seen. To fix this, do M-x byte-recompile-directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2783 and specify the directory that contains the Lisp files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2784
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2785 Emacs should print a warning when loading a .elc file which is older
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2786 than the corresponding .el file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2787
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2788 * The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2789
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2790 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2791
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2792 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2793 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2794 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2795 value in the man page for a.out (5).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2796
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2797 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2798 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2799 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2800 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2801 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2802
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2803 * Compilation errors on VMS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2804
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2805 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2806 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2807 This is not an error. Ignore it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2808
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2809 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2810 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2811
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2812 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2813 in conditional expressions. The bug is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2814 char c = -1, d = 1;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2815 int i;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2816
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2817 i = d ? c : d;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2818 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2819 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2820 constructs in Emacs have been fixed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2821
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2822 * rmail gets error getting new mail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2823
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2824 rmail gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2825 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2826 the protocol defined by /bin/mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2827
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2828 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2829 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2830 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2831 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2832 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2833 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2834 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2835
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2836 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2837 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2838 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2839 `mail'. You can use these commands (as root):
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2840
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2841 chgrp mail movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2842 chmod 2755 movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2843
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2844 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2845 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2846 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2847 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2848 make install.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2849
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2850 chgrp mail movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2851 chmod 2755 movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2852
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2853 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2854 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2855 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2856 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2857 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2858 directory copy is ineffective.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2859
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2860 * Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2861
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2862 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2863 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2864 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2865 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2866 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2867 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2868 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2869 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2870
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2871 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2872
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2873 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2874 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2875 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2876
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2877 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2878 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2879 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2880 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2881 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2882 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2883
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2884 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2885 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2886 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2887 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2888 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2889 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2890 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2891 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2892 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2893
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2894 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2895 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2896 codes. You might as well try it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2897
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2898 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2899 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2900 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2901 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2902 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2903 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2904 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2905 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2906
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2907 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2908 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2909 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2910 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2911 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2912 control handling.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2913
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2914 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2915 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2916 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2917 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2918 other control characters are already used by emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2919
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2920 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2921 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2922 order to continue.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2923
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2924 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2925 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2926 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2927 automatically. Here is an example:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2928
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2929 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2930
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2931 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2932 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2933 manually.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2934
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2935 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2936 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2937 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2938 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2939 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2940 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2941 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2942 of inferior systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2943
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2944 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2945
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2946 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2947 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2948 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2949 that wants to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2950
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2951 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2952 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2953 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2954
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2955 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2956 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2957 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2958
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2959 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net connection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2960
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2961 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2962 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2963 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2964 control on the local system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2965
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2966 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2967 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2968 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2969 "stty start u stop u" will do this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2970
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2971 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2972 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2973 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2974
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2975 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2976 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2977 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2978 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2979
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2980 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2981
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2982 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2983 info.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2984
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2985 * Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2986
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2987 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2988 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2989 the combination of features specified for that terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2990
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2991 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2992 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2993 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2994 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2995 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2996 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2997 There are several possibilities:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2999 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3000
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3001 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3002 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3003
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3004 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3005 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3006 by termcap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3007
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3008 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3009 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3010 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3011 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3012 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3013 tested on many kinds of terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3014
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3015 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3016
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3017 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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3018 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3019 for certain terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3020
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3021 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3022 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3023
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3024 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3025 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3026
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3027 * Output from Control-V is slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3028
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3029 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3030 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3031 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3032 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3033 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3034 it will scroll them to the top of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3035
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3036 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3037 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3038 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3039 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3040 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3041 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3042 time as the operations really take.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3043
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3044 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3045 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3046 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3047 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3048 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3049 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3050 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3051 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3052 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3053 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3054
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3055 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3056 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3057 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3058 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3059 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3060 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3061 `cm' string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3062
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3063 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3064 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3065 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3066
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3067 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3068 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3069
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3070 * Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3071
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3072 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3073
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3074 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3075 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3076
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3077 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3078
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3079 * You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3080
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3081 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3082 after a day or two.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3083
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3084 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3085 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3086 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3087 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3088 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3089 to it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3090
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3091 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3092 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3093 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3094 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3095 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3096 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3097
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3098 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3099 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3100 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3101 You can probably access help-command via f1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3102
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3103 * Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3104 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3105 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3106 causes it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3107
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3108 There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3109 call in the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3110
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3111 The first is that the fsync() call is handled as another name for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3112 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3113 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3114 to make sure that the bits are on the disk.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3115
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3116 This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3117
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3118 The second, more serious problem, is that fsync() is treated as a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3119 non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3120 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3121 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3122 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3123 is done) is a bad idea; unfortunately, changing it will break the RFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3124 protocol. No fix was supplied for this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3125
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3126 (as always, your line numbers may vary)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3127
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3128 % rcsdiff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3129 RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3130 retrieving revision 1.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3131 diff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3132 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3133 --- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3134 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3135 *** 163,169 ****
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3136 /*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3137 * No return sent for close or fsync!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3138 */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3139 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close || syscall == RSYS_fsync)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3140 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3141 else
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3142 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3143 --- 166,172 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3144 /*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3145 * No return sent for close or fsync!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3146 */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3147 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3148 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3149 else
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3150 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3151
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3152 * Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3153
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3154 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3155
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3156 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3157 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3158
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3159 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3160 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3161 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3162 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3163 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3164 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3165 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3166
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3167 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3168 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3169 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3170 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3171 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3172 Lisp_Object *args;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3173 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3174 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3175 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3176 Lisp_Object *args;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3177 Lisp_Object tem;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3178 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3179 tem = args[i];
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3180 ... foo (r, tem, ...)...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3181 causes the problem to go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3182 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3183 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3184
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3185 * 68000 C compiler problems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3186
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3187 Various 68000 compilers have different problems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3188 These are some that have been observed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3189
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3190 ** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3191 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3192 if x is of type Lisp_Object.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3193
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3194 ** "cannot reclaim" error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3195
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3196 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3197 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3198 simpler expressions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3199
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3200 ** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3201
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3202 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3203 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3204
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3205 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; };
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3206
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3207 lose (arg)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3208 struct foo arg;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3209 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3210 test ((int *) arg.y);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3211 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3212
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3213 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3214 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3215 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3216
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3217 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3218 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3219
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3220 * C compilers lose on returning unions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3221
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3222 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3223 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3224 defined as a union on some rare architectures.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3226 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3227 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3228