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(text-mode-map): Remove the \t binding. (text-mode): Simplify now that the default is more favorable. (paragraph-indent-text-mode): Fix last change.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Tue, 30 Oct 2001 06:00:10 +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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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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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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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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130 * Improving performance with slow X connections
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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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136 are part of the Leim package.
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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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141 * Getting a Meta key on the FreeBSD console
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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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145 current keymap to a file with the command
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147 $ kbdcontrol -d >emacs.kbd
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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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152 to look like this
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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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193
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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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201 problem disappears.
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203 * Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window.
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205 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know
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206 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured
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207 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
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209 * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
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211 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal
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212 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database
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213 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the
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214 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are
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215 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within
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216 Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system
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217 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is
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218 "colors".
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220 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for
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221 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal
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222 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not
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223 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry
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224 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape
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225 sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make
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226 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op"
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227 capability).
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229 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which
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230 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability
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231 incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting
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232 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps.
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234 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value
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235 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal
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236 entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to
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237 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible
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238 emulator.
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240 Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
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241 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
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242 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The
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243 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x
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244 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable
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245 `global-font-lock-mode'.
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247 * Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.
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249 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif
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250 emulation for which it is set up.
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252 Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif.
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253 Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD.
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254 On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure
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255 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most
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256 successful. The binary GNU/Linux package
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257 lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with
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258 menu placement.
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260 On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally
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261 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know
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262 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs
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263 developers.
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265 * Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.1.
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266
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267 Emacs 21.1 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images, the tool bar,
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268 and tooltips. Support for these will be added in future versions.
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270 Help text that is displayed in a tooltip on other window systems, on
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271 Windows is printed in the echo area, since tooltips are not yet
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272 available. Help text for menu items is not displayed at all.
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274 There are problems with display if the variable `redisplay-dont-pause'
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275 is set to nil (w32-win.el sets it to t by default, to avoid these
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276 problems). The problems include:
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277
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278 . No redisplay as long as help echo is displayed in the echo area,
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279 e.g. if the mouse is on a mouse-sensitive part of the mode line.
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280
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281 . When the mode line is dragged with the mouse, multiple copies of the
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282 mode line are left behind, until the mouse button is released and
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283 the next input event occurs.
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284
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285 . Window contents are not updated when text is selected by dragging
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286 the mouse, and the mouse is dragged below the bottom line of the
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287 window. When the mouse button is released, the window display is
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288 correctly updated.
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289
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290 Again, these problems only occur if `redisplay-dont-pause' is nil.
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291
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292 Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null
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293 characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.
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294
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295 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
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296 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.
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298 Windows 2000 input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.1).
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299 These input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded in
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300 the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
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301 characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make this
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302 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
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303 you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate
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304 the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs
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305 ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
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306 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
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307 yet.)
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308
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309 Multilingual text put into the Windows 2000 clipboard by Windows
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310 applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.1). This
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311 is because Windows 2000 uses Unicode to represent multilingual text,
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312 but Emacs does not yet support Unicode well enough to decode it. This
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313 means that Emacs can only interchange non-ASCII text with other
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314 Windows 2000 programs if the characters are in the system codepage.
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315 Reportedly, a partial solution is to install the Mule-UCS package and
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316 set selection-coding-system to utf-16-le-dos.
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317
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318 * The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
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319
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320 This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared
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321 libraries, but jpeg distribution by default doesn't build and doesn't
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322 install a shared version of the library, `libjpeg.so'. One system
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323 where this is known to happen is Compaq OSF/1 (`Tru64'), but it
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324 probably isn't limited to that system.
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325
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326 You can configure the jpeg library with the `--enable-shared' option
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327 and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a shared version of libjpeg,
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328 which you need to install. Finally, rerun the Emacs configure script,
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329 which should now find the jpeg library. Alternatively, modify the
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330 generated src/Makefile to link the .a file explicitly.
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332 (If you need the static version of the jpeg library as well, configure
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333 libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared' options.)
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335 * Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
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337 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system
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338 (RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris
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339 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that
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340 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the
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341 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is
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342 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping
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343 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped
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344 Emacs excutable to fail with the above message.
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346 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the
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347 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make
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348 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future).
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349 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems.
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351 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05
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352 (Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if
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353 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can
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354 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the
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355 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB
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356 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the
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357 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount
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358 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as
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359 `/etc/auto.home'.
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361 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for
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362 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case,
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363 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
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364 to work around the problem.
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366 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory
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367 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and
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368 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the
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369 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble:
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371 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted...
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373 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
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375 * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.
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377 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with
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378 other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software
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379 that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font
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380 size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts
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381 when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean
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382 fonts have this bug in some versions of X.
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383
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384 To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this:
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385
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386 xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
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387
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388 If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the
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389 problem.
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390
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391 The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate
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392 `fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run
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393 `xset fp rehash'.
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394
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395 * Large file support is disabled on HP-UX. See the comments in
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396 src/s/hpux10.h.
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397
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398 * Crashes when displaying uncompressed GIFs with version
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399 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1.
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401 * Font Lock displays portions of the bufefr in incorrect faces.
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402
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403 By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace
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404 `{' in column zero. Font Lock assumes that such a paren is outside of
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405 any comment or string. This is of course not true in general, but the
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406 vast majority of well-formatted program source files don't have such
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407 parens, and therefore this assumption is used to allow optimizations
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408 in Font Lock's syntactical analysis. These optimizations avoid some
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409 patological cases where jit-lock, the Just-in-Time fontification
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410 introduced with Emacs 21.1, could significantly slow down scrolling
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411 through the buffer, especially scrolling backwards, and also jumping
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412 to the end of a very large buffer.
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413
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414 If you don't use large buffers, or have a very fast machine which
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415 makes the delays insignificant, you can avoid the incorrect
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416 fontification by setting the variable
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417 `font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function' to a nil value. (This must
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418 be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.)
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419
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420 Another alternative is to avoid a paren in column zero. For example,
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421 in a Lisp string you could precede the paren with a backslash.
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422
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423 * Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.
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424
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425 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the
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426 MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash
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427 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the
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428 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports
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429 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.)
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431 * Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
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432
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433 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be
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434 due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it
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435 and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows
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436 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses
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437 are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which
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438 confuses ange-ftp.
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439
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440 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL
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441 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock
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442 Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' directory. To
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443 force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the variable
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444 `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the client's
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445 executable. For example:
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446
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447 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe")
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448
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449 If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around
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450 this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file:
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451
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452 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "")
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453
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454
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455 * The latest released version of the W3 package doesn't run properly
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456 with Emacs 21 and needs work. However, these problems are already
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457 fixed in W3's CVS. The patch below is reported to make w3-4.0pre.46
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458 work.
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459
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460 Some users report they are unable to byte-compile W3 with Emacs 21.
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461 If the patches below don't help to resolve your problems, install the
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462 CVS version of W3, which should be compatible with Emacs 21.
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463
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464 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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465 --- w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-display.el Sun Nov 14 22:00:12 1999
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466 +++ w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-display.el Thu Dec 14 14:59:15 2000
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467 @@ -181,7 +181,8 @@
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468 (dispatch-event (next-command-event)))
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469 (error nil))))
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470 (t
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471 - (if (and (not (sit-for 0)) (input-pending-p))
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472 + ;; modified for GNU Emacs 21 by bob@rattlesnake.com on 2000 Dec 14
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473 + (if (and (not (sit-for 0)) nil)
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474 (condition-case ()
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475 (progn
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476 (setq w3-pause-keystroke
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477 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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478 --- w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-e21.el Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
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479 +++ w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-e21.el Thu Dec 14 14:54:58 2000
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480 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
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481 +;;; w3-e21.el --- ** required for GNU Emacs 21 **
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482 +;; Added by bob@rattlesnake.com on 2000 Dec 14
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483 +
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484 +(require 'w3-e19)
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485 +(provide 'w3-e21)
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487 * On AIX, if linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you
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488 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If
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489 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure
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490 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
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492 * The PSGML package uses the obsolete variables
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493 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no
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494 longer used by Emacs. These changes to PSGML 1.2.2 fix that.
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496 --- psgml-edit.el 2001/03/03 00:23:31 1.1
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497 +++ psgml-edit.el 2001/03/03 00:24:22
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499 ; inhibit-read-only
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500 - (before-change-function nil)
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501 - (after-change-function nil))
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502 + (before-change-functions nil)
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503 + (after-change-functions nil))
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504 (setq selective-display t)
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506 (buffer-read-only nil)
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507 - (before-change-function nil)
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508 + (before-change-functions nil)
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509 (markup-index ; match-data index in tag regexp
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511 (defun sgml-expand-shortref-to-text (name)
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512 - (let (before-change-function
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513 + (let (before-change-functions
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514 (entity (sgml-lookup-entity name (sgml-dtd-entities sgml-dtd-info))))
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515 @@ -1613,3 +1613,3 @@
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516 (re-found nil)
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517 - before-change-function)
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518 + before-change-functions)
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519 (goto-char sgml-markup-start)
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520 @@ -1646,3 +1646,3 @@
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521 (goto-char (sgml-element-end element))
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522 - (let ((before-change-function nil))
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523 + (let ((before-change-functions nil))
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524 (sgml-normalize-content element only-one)))
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525 --- psgml-other.el 2001/03/03 00:23:42 1.1
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526 +++ psgml-other.el 2001/03/03 00:30:05
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527 @@ -32,2 +32,3 @@
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528 (require 'easymenu)
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529 +(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
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530
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531 @@ -61,4 +62,9 @@
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532 (let ((submenu
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533 - (subseq entries 0 (min (length entries)
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534 - sgml-max-menu-size))))
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535 +;;; (subseq entries 0 (min (length entries)
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536 +;;; sgml-max-menu-size))
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537 + (let ((new (copy-sequence entries)))
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538 + (setcdr (nthcdr (1- (min (length entries)
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539 + sgml-max-menu-size))
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540 + new) nil)
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541 + new)))
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542 (setq entries (nthcdr sgml-max-menu-size entries))
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543 @@ -113,9 +119,10 @@
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544 (let ((inhibit-read-only t)
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545 - (after-change-function nil) ; obsolete variable
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546 - (before-change-function nil) ; obsolete variable
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547 (after-change-functions nil)
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548 - (before-change-functions nil))
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549 + (before-change-functions nil)
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550 + (modified (buffer-modified-p))
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551 + (buffer-undo-list t)
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552 + deactivate-mark)
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553 (put-text-property start end 'face face)
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554 - (when (< start end)
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555 - (put-text-property (1- end) end 'rear-nonsticky '(face)))))
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556 + (when (and (not modified) (buffer-modified-p))
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557 + (set-buffer-modified-p nil))))
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558 (t
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559 --- psgml-parse.el 2001/03/03 00:23:57 1.1
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560 +++ psgml-parse.el 2001/03/03 00:29:56
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561 @@ -40,2 +40,4 @@
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562
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563 +(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
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564 +
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565
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566 @@ -2493,8 +2495,8 @@
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567 (setq sgml-scratch-buffer nil))
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568 - (when after-change-function ;***
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569 - (message "OOPS: after-change-function not NIL in scratch buffer %s: %s"
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570 + (when after-change-functions ;***
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571 + (message "OOPS: after-change-functions not NIL in scratch buffer %s: %S"
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572 (current-buffer)
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573 - after-change-function)
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574 - (setq before-change-function nil
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575 - after-change-function nil))
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576 + after-change-functions)
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577 + (setq before-change-functions nil
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578 + after-change-functions nil))
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579 (setq sgml-last-entity-buffer (current-buffer))
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580 @@ -2878,6 +2880,5 @@
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581 "Set initial state of parsing"
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582 - (make-local-variable 'before-change-function)
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583 - (setq before-change-function 'sgml-note-change-at)
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584 - (make-local-variable 'after-change-function)
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585 - (setq after-change-function 'sgml-set-face-after-change)
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586 + (set (make-local-variable 'before-change-functions) '(sgml-note-change-at))
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587 + (set (make-local-variable 'after-change-functions)
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588 + '(sgml-set-face-after-change))
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589 (sgml-set-active-dtd-indicator (sgml-dtd-doctype dtd))
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591 (sgml-need-dtd)
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592 - (unless before-change-function
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593 - (message "WARN: before-change-function has been lost, restoring (%s)"
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594 + (unless before-change-functions
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595 + (message "WARN: before-change-functions has been lost, restoring (%s)"
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596 (current-buffer))
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597 - (setq before-change-function 'sgml-note-change-at)
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598 - (setq after-change-function 'sgml-set-face-after-change))
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599 + (setq before-change-functions '(sgml-note-change-at))
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600 + (setq after-change-functions '(sgml-set-face-after-change)))
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601 (sgml-with-parser-syntax-ro
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602
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603 * The Calc package fails to build and signals errors with Emacs 21.
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604
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605 Apply the following patches which reportedly fix several problems:
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606
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607 --- calc-ext.el.~1~ Sun Apr 3 02:26:34 1994
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608 +++ calc-ext.el Wed Sep 18 17:35:01 1996
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609 @@ -1354,6 +1354,25 @@
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610 (calc-fancy-prefix 'calc-inverse-flag "Inverse..." n)
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611 )
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612
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613 +(defconst calc-fancy-prefix-map
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614 + (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
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615 + (define-key map [t] 'calc-fancy-prefix-other-key)
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616 + (define-key map (vector meta-prefix-char t) 'calc-fancy-prefix-other-key)
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617 + (define-key map [switch-frame] nil)
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618 + (define-key map [?\C-u] 'universal-argument)
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619 + (define-key map [?0] 'digit-argument)
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620 + (define-key map [?1] 'digit-argument)
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621 + (define-key map [?2] 'digit-argument)
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622 + (define-key map [?3] 'digit-argument)
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623 + (define-key map [?4] 'digit-argument)
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624 + (define-key map [?5] 'digit-argument)
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625 + (define-key map [?6] 'digit-argument)
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626 + (define-key map [?7] 'digit-argument)
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627 + (define-key map [?8] 'digit-argument)
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628 + (define-key map [?9] 'digit-argument)
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629 + map)
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630 + "Keymap used while processing calc-fancy-prefix.")
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631 +
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632 (defun calc-fancy-prefix (flag msg n)
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633 (let (prefix)
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634 (calc-wrapper
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636 (message (if prefix msg "")))
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637 (and prefix
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638 (not calc-is-keypad-press)
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639 + (if (boundp 'overriding-terminal-local-map)
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640 + (setq overriding-terminal-local-map calc-fancy-prefix-map)
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641 (let ((event (calc-read-key t)))
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642 (if (eq (setq last-command-char (car event)) ?\C-u)
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643 (universal-argument)
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644 @@ -1376,9 +1397,18 @@
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645 (if (or (not (integerp last-command-char))
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646 (eq last-command-char ?-))
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647 (calc-unread-command)
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648 - (digit-argument n))))))
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649 + (digit-argument n)))))))
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650 )
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651 (setq calc-is-keypad-press nil)
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652 +
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653 +(defun calc-fancy-prefix-other-key (arg)
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654 + (interactive "P")
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655 + (if (or (not (integerp last-command-char))
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656 + (and (>= last-command-char 0) (< last-command-char ? )
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657 + (not (eq last-command-char meta-prefix-char))))
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658 + (calc-wrapper)) ; clear flags if not a Calc command.
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659 + (calc-unread-command)
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660 + (setq overriding-terminal-local-map nil))
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661
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662 (defun calc-invert-func ()
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663 (save-excursion
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664
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665 --- Makefile.~1~ Sun Dec 15 23:50:45 1996
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666 +++ Makefile Thu Nov 30 15:09:45 2000
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667 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
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668
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669 # Other macros.
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670 EFLAGS = -batch
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671 -MAINT = -l calc-maint.elc
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672 +MAINT = -l calc-maint.el
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673
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674 # Control whether intermediate files are kept.
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675 PURGE = -rm -f
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676 @@ -154,10 +154,7 @@
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677
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678
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679 # All this because "-l calc-maint" doesn't work.
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680 -maint: calc-maint.elc
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681 -calc-maint.elc: calc-maint.el
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682 - cp calc-maint.el calc-maint.elc
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683 -
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684 +maint: calc-maint.el
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685
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686 # Create an Emacs TAGS file
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687 tags: TAGS
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688
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689 --- calc-aent.el.~1~ Sun Dec 15 23:50:36 1996
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690 +++ calc-aent.el Tue Nov 21 18:34:33 2000
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691 @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@
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692 (calc-minibuffer-contains
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693 "\\`\\([^\"]*\"[^\"]*\"\\)*[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\\'"))
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694 (insert "`")
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695 - (setq alg-exp (buffer-string))
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696 + (setq alg-exp (field-string))
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697 (and (> (length alg-exp) 0) (setq calc-previous-alg-entry alg-exp))
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698 (exit-minibuffer))
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699 )
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700 @@ -393,14 +393,14 @@
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701
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702 (defun calcAlg-enter ()
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703 (interactive)
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704 - (let* ((str (buffer-string))
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705 + (let* ((str (field-string))
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706 (exp (and (> (length str) 0)
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707 (save-excursion
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708 (set-buffer calc-buffer)
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709 (math-read-exprs str)))))
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710 (if (eq (car-safe exp) 'error)
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711 (progn
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712 - (goto-char (point-min))
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713 + (goto-char (field-beginning))
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714 (forward-char (nth 1 exp))
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715 (beep)
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716 (calc-temp-minibuffer-message
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717 @@ -455,14 +455,14 @@
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718 (interactive)
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719 (if (calc-minibuffer-contains ".*[@oh] *[^'m ]+[^'m]*\\'")
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720 (calcDigit-key)
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721 - (setq calc-digit-value (buffer-string))
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722 + (setq calc-digit-value (field-string))
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723 (exit-minibuffer))
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724 )
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725
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726 (defun calcDigit-edit ()
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727 (interactive)
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728 (calc-unread-command)
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729 - (setq calc-digit-value (buffer-string))
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730 + (setq calc-digit-value (field-string))
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731 (exit-minibuffer)
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732 )
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733
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734 --- calc.el.~1~ Sun Dec 15 23:50:47 1996
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735 +++ calc.el Wed Nov 22 13:08:49 2000
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736 @@ -2051,11 +2051,11 @@
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737 ;; Exercise for the reader: Figure out why this is a good precaution!
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738 (or (boundp 'calc-buffer)
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739 (use-local-map minibuffer-local-map))
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740 - (let ((str (buffer-string)))
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741 + (let ((str (field-string)))
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742 (setq calc-digit-value (save-excursion
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743 (set-buffer calc-buffer)
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744 (math-read-number str))))
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745 - (if (and (null calc-digit-value) (> (buffer-size) 0))
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746 + (if (and (null calc-digit-value) (> (field-end) (field-beginning)))
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747 (progn
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748 (beep)
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749 (calc-temp-minibuffer-message " [Bad format]"))
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750 @@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@
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751
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752 (defun calc-minibuffer-contains (rex)
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753 (save-excursion
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754 - (goto-char (point-min))
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755 + (goto-char (field-end (point-min)))
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756 (looking-at rex))
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757 )
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758
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759 @@ -2158,10 +2158,8 @@
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760 (upcase last-command-char))))
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761 (and dig
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762 (< dig radix)))))))
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763 - (save-excursion
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764 - (goto-char (point-min))
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765 - (looking-at
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766 - "[-+]?\\(.*\\+/- *\\|.*mod *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*[@oh] *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*['m] *\\)?[0-9]*\\(\\.?[0-9]*\\(e[-+]?[0-3]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?\\)?\\|[0-9]:\\([0-9]+:\\)?[0-9]*\\)?[\"s]?\\'")))
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767 + (calc-minibuffer-contains
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768 + "[-+]?\\(.*\\+/- *\\|.*mod *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*[@oh] *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*['m] *\\)?[0-9]*\\(\\.?[0-9]*\\(e[-+]?[0-3]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?\\)?\\|[0-9]:\\([0-9]+:\\)?[0-9]*\\)?[\"s]?\\'"))
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769 (if (and (memq last-command-char '(?@ ?o ?h ?\' ?m))
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770 (string-match " " calc-hms-format))
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771 (insert " "))
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772 @@ -2190,7 +2188,7 @@
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773 ((eq last-command 'calcDigit-start)
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774 (erase-buffer))
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775 (t (backward-delete-char 1)))
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776 - (if (= (buffer-size) 0)
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777 + (if (= (field-beginning) (field-end))
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778 (progn
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779 (setq last-command-char 13)
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780 (calcDigit-nondigit)))
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781
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782 * TeX'ing the Calc manual fails.
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783
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784 The following patches allow to build the Calc manual using texinfo.tex
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785 from Emacs 19.34 distribution:
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786
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787 *** calc-maint.e~0 Mon Dec 16 07:11:26 1996
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788 --- calc-maint.el Sun Dec 10 14:32:38 2000
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789 ***************
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790 *** 308,314 ****
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791 (insert "@tex\n"
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792 "\\global\\advance\\appendixno2\n"
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793 "\\gdef\\xref#1.{See ``#1.''}\n")
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794 ! (setq midpos (point))
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795 (insert "@end tex\n")
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796 (insert-buffer-substring srcbuf sumpos endpos)
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797 (insert "@bye\n")
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798 --- 308,314 ----
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799 (insert "@tex\n"
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800 "\\global\\advance\\appendixno2\n"
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801 "\\gdef\\xref#1.{See ``#1.''}\n")
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802 ! (setq midpos (point-marker))
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803 (insert "@end tex\n")
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804 (insert-buffer-substring srcbuf sumpos endpos)
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805 (insert "@bye\n")
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806 *** Makefile.~0 Mon Dec 16 07:11:24 1996
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807 --- Makefile Sun Dec 10 14:44:00 2000
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808 ***************
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809 *** 98,106 ****
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810 # Format the Calc manual as one printable volume using TeX.
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811 tex:
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812 $(REMOVE) calc.aux
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813 ! $(TEX) calc.texinfo
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814 $(TEXINDEX) calc.[cfkptv]?
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815 ! $(TEX) calc.texinfo
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816 $(PURGE) calc.cp calc.fn calc.pg calc.tp calc.vr
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817 $(PURGE) calc.cps calc.fns calc.kys calc.pgs calc.tps calc.vrs
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818 $(PURGE) calc.toc
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819 --- 98,106 ----
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820 # Format the Calc manual as one printable volume using TeX.
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821 tex:
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822 $(REMOVE) calc.aux
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823 ! -$(TEX) calc.texinfo
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824 $(TEXINDEX) calc.[cfkptv]?
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825 ! -$(TEX) calc.texinfo
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826 $(PURGE) calc.cp calc.fn calc.pg calc.tp calc.vr
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827 $(PURGE) calc.cps calc.fns calc.kys calc.pgs calc.tps calc.vrs
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828 $(PURGE) calc.toc
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829 *** calc.texinfo.~1~ Thu Oct 10 18:18:56 1996
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830 --- calc.texinfo Mon Dec 11 08:25:00 2000
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831 ***************
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832 *** 12,17 ****
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833 --- 12,19 ----
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834 % Because makeinfo.c exists, we can't just define new commands.
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835 % So instead, we take over little-used existing commands.
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836 %
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837 + % Suggested by Karl Berry <karl@@freefriends.org>
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838 + \gdef\!{\mskip-\thinmuskip}
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839 % Redefine @cite{text} to act like $text$ in regular TeX.
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840 % Info will typeset this same as @samp{text}.
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841 \gdef\goodtex{\tex \let\rm\goodrm \let\t\ttfont \turnoffactive}
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842 ***************
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843 *** 23686,23692 ****
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844 a vector of the actual parameter values, written as equations:
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845 @cite{[a = 3, b = 2]}, in case you'd rather read them in a list
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846 than pick them out of the formula. (You can type @kbd{t y}
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847 ! to move this vector to the stack; @pxref{Trail Commands}.)
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848
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849 Specifying a different independent variable name will affect the
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850 resulting formula: @kbd{a F 1 k RET} produces @kbd{3 + 2 k}.
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851 --- 23689,23695 ----
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852 a vector of the actual parameter values, written as equations:
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853 @cite{[a = 3, b = 2]}, in case you'd rather read them in a list
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854 than pick them out of the formula. (You can type @kbd{t y}
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855 ! to move this vector to the stack; see @ref{Trail Commands}.)
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856
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857 Specifying a different independent variable name will affect the
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858 resulting formula: @kbd{a F 1 k RET} produces @kbd{3 + 2 k}.
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859
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860 * Unicode characters are not unified with other Mule charsets.
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861
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862 As of v21.1, Emacs charsets are still not unified. This means that
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863 characters which belong to charsets such as Latin-2, Greek, Hebrew,
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864 etc. and the same characters in the `mule-unicode-*' charsets are
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865 different characters, as far as Emacs is concerned. For example, text
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866 which includes Unicode characters from the Latin-2 locale cannot be
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867 encoded by Emacs with ISO 8859-2 coding system; and if you yank Greek
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868 text from a buffer whose buffer-file-coding-system is greek-iso-8bit
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869 into a mule-unicode-0100-24ff buffer, Emacs won't be able to save that
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870 buffer neither as ISO 8859-7 nor as UTF-8.
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871
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872 To work around this, install some add-on package such as Mule-UCS.
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873
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874 * The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.
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875
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876 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
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877 slots now. If the built-in Unicode/UTF-8 support is insufficient,
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878 e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package.
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879 Any files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode won't be read
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880 correctly by Emacs 21.
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881
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882 * Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error.
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883
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884 The error message might be something like this:
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885
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886 "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"
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887
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888 This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a
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889 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch
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890 for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3
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891 corrects that.
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892
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893 * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors
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894 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some
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895 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support.
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896 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared
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897 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker.
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898
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899 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your
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900 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries
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901 can be found.
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902
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903 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before
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904 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a
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905 specified run-time search path in the executable.
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906
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907 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details.
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908
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909 * On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
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910 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
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911 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
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912 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
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913 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
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914 and the default CFLAGS.
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915
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916 * Compiling syntax.c with the OPENSTEP 4.2 compiler gcc 2.7.2.1 fails.
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917
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918 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the
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919 following message:
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920
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921 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
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922
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923 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD,
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924 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3
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925 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example:
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926
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927 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from)
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928 {
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929 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from));
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930 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/
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931
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38058
diff changeset
932 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38058
diff changeset
933 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward.
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38058
diff changeset
934
39464
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
935 * 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
936
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
937 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
938
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
939 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
940
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
941 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
942 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
943 are:
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
944
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
945 - in your ~/.Xdefaults file
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
946
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
947 - 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
948 /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
949 /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
950
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
951 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
952 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
953 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
954
38135
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
955 * 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
956
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
957 The typical error message might be like this:
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
958
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
959 "Cannot open load file: fontset"
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
960
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
961 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
962 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
963 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
964 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
965 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
966 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
967 its loaded very early in the startup procedure.)
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
968
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
969 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
970 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
971
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
972 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
973 file.
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
974
37633
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
975 * Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails.
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
976
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
977 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
978 representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
979 ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.3
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
980 with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other systems as well. To
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
981 avoid this problem, switch to using the standard ftp client. On a
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
982 Debian system, type
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
983
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
984 update-alternatives --config ftpd
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
985
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
986 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp.
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
987
38919
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
988 * 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
989
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
990 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
991 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
992 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
993 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
994
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
995 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
996 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
997 or disable it entirely.
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
998
33614
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
999 * 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
1000
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
1001 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
1002 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
1003 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
1004 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
1005
33455
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
1006 * Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
1007 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
1008 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
1009 seen.
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
1010
38580
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1011 * 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
1012
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1013 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
1014 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
1015 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
1016 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
1017 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
1018 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
1019 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
1020
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1021 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
1022 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
1023 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
1024 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
1025 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
1026 modifier:
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1027
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1028 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
1029
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1030 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
1031 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
1032
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1033 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
1034
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1035 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
1036 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
1037 keys can serve as Meta.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1038
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
1039 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
1040 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
1041
31514
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
1042 * 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
1043 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
1044 keyboard(5).
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
1045
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
1046 Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it:
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
1047 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L'
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
1048 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R'
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
1049
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1050 * Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1051
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1052 Install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this problem should go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1053 It is possible that this problem results from upgrading the operating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1054 system without reinstalling GCC; so you could also try reinstalling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1055 the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1056
39466
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
1057 * 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
1058
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
1059 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
1060 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
1061 manager.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
1062
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
1063 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
1064
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
1065 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
1066 Bug Reports: 4463537
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
1067
39467
7d3bfda9bf1d Fix last change.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39466
diff changeset
1068 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
1069 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>
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1070 library xiiimp.so.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
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parents: 39465
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1071
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
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parents: 39465
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1072 Alternatively, you can configure Emacs with `--with-xim=no' to prevent
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parents: 39465
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1073 the core dump, but will loose X input method support, of course. (You
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
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parents: 39465
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1074 can use Emacs's own input methods instead, if you install Leim.)
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
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parents: 39465
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1075
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1076 * On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X.
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1077
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1078 This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
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parents: 25853
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1079 assembler) if you use GCC version 2.7 or later.
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1080 To work around it, either install patch 106950-03 or later,
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
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1081 or uninstall patch 107058-01, or install the GNU Binutils.
25853
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1082 Then recompile Emacs, and it should work.
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1083
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1084 * With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup.
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1085
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diff changeset
1086 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem.
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1087
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1088 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999
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1089 +++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999
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1090 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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1091 -/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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1092 +/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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1093 /******************************************************************
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1094
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diff changeset
1095 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED
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1096 @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
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1097 _XimMakeImName(lcd)
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1098 XLCd lcd;
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1099 {
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1100 - char* begin;
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1101 - char* end;
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1102 + char* begin = NULL;
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parents:
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1103 + char* end = NULL;
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1104 char* ret;
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parents:
diff changeset
1105 int i = 0;
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1106 char* ximmodifier = XIMMODIFIER;
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1107 @@ -182,7 +182,11 @@
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1108 }
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parents:
diff changeset
1109 ret = Xmalloc(end - begin + 2);
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diff changeset
1110 if (ret != NULL) {
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1111 - (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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1112 + if (begin != NULL) {
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1113 + (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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1114 + } else {
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1115 + ret[0] = '\0';
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1116 + }
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parents:
diff changeset
1117 ret[end - begin + 1] = '\0';
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1118 }
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parents:
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1119 return ret;
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1120
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1121
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parents:
diff changeset
1122 * Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.
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1123
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1124 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.
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1125
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parents:
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1126 * Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3.
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parents:
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1127
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1128 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1129 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up.
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parents:
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1130
34880
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
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parents: 34721
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1131 * 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
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1132
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1133 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1134 combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
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parents: 34721
diff changeset
1135 definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1136 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
1137 purposes.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1138
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1139 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
1140 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1141
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1142 * On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1143 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).
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1144
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parents:
diff changeset
1145 You can fix this by editing the file:
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1146
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1147 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose
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1148
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diff changeset
1149 Near the bottom there is a line that reads:
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1150
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diff changeset
1151 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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1152
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diff changeset
1153 that should read:
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1154
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1155 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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1156
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1157 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work.
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parents:
diff changeset
1158
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parents:
diff changeset
1159 * Emacs on Digital Unix 4.0 fails to build, giving error message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1160 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160
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parents:
diff changeset
1161
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parents:
diff changeset
1162 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1163 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1164
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1165 * Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1166
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parents:
diff changeset
1167 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1168 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1169 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1170
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1171 * Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1172
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1173 These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1174 particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1175 configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1176 configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1177 change this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1178
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1179 * When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1180
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1181 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1182 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1183 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1184 correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1185 gives the appearance of "double spacing".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1186
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parents:
diff changeset
1187 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1188 feature (in the font part of the configuration window).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1189
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1190 * Failure in unexec while dumping emacs on Digital Unix 4.0
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1191
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1192 This problem manifests itself as an error message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1193
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1194 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1195
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parents:
diff changeset
1196 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1197 were built for an older system version,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1198
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parents:
diff changeset
1199 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
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parents:
diff changeset
1200
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1201 made the problem go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1202
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1203 * No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1204
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1205 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1206 as of 8 Dec 1998.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1207
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1208 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1209
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1210 * As of version 20.4, Emacs doesn't work properly if configured for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1211 the Motif toolkit and linked against the free LessTif library. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1212 next Emacs release is expected to work with LessTif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1213
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1214 * Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1215
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1216 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1217 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1218 likely to cause it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1219
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1220 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1221
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1222 * Emacs makes HPUX 11.0 crash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1223
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1224 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1226 * Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine (HPUX 10.20).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1227
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1228 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
1229
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1230 * The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1231 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1232 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1233 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1234
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1235 * Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1236 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1237 Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1238 earlier versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1239
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1240 --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1241 +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1242 @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1243 (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1244 (cond
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1245 ((stringp entity) ; a file name
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1246 - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1247 + (insert-file-contents entity)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1248 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1249 ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id?
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1250 (let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1251
35907
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1252 * 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
1253
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1254 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
1255 these problems.
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1256
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1257 * Running TeX from AUC TeX package with Emacs 20.3 gives a Lisp error
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1258 about a read-only tex output buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1259
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1260 This problem appeared for AUC TeX version 9.9j and some earlier
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1261 versions. Here is a patch for the file tex-buf.el in the AUC TeX
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1262 package.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1264 diff -c auctex/tex-buf.el~ auctex/tex-buf.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1265 *** auctex/tex-buf.el~ Wed Jul 29 18:35:32 1998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1266 --- auctex/tex-buf.el Sat Sep 5 15:20:38 1998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1267 ***************
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parents:
diff changeset
1268 *** 545,551 ****
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parents:
diff changeset
1269 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1270 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1271 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1272 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1273 (set-buffer buffer)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1274 (if dir (cd dir))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1275 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1276 - --- 545,552 ----
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parents:
diff changeset
1277 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1278 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1279 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1280 ! (let (temp-buffer-show-function temp-buffer-show-hook)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1281 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1282 (set-buffer buffer)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1283 (if dir (cd dir))
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parents:
diff changeset
1284 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1285
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1286 * On Irix 6.3, substituting environment variables in file names
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1287 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1288
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parents:
diff changeset
1289 Substituting nonexistent environment variable ""
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parents:
diff changeset
1290
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1291 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1292 003082 August 11, 1998.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1293
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1294 * After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1295
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1296 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1297 (standard-display-european t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1298 That should be changed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1299 (standard-display-european 1 t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1300
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1301 * Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1302
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1303 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1304 supplies the `install-info' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1305
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1306 * Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key, on HPUX.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1307
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1308 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1309 rights, containing this text:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1310
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1311 --------------------------------
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parents:
diff changeset
1312 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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parents:
diff changeset
1313 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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parents:
diff changeset
1314 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1315 EOF
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parents:
diff changeset
1316
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1317 xmodmap - << EOF
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1318 clear mod1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1319 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1320 add mod1 = Meta_L
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1321 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1322 add mod2 = Mode_switch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1323 EOF
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1324 --------------------------------
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1325
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1326 * 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
1327
38279
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1328 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
diff changeset
1329 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
diff changeset
1330 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
diff changeset
1331 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
1332 while, Emacs will print a message:
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1333
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1334 Timed out waiting for property-notify event
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1335
38279
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1336 A workaround is to not use `klipper'.
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1337
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1338 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1339 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1340 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1341
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1342 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1343 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1344 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1345
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1346 * M-SPC seems to be ignored as input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1347
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1348 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1349 for character composition.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1350
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1351 * Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1352
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1353 This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1354 full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1355 /etc/hosts file, something like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1356
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1357 127.0.0.1 localhost
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1358 129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1359
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1360 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1362 * Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs on Digital Unix 4.0.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1363
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1364 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1365 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1366 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1367 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1368 in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1369
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1370 * When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1371
38026
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1372 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
diff changeset
1373 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
1374 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
1375 support for 8-bit characters.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1376
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1377 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
1378 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
1379
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1380 ispell -vv
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1381
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1382 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
1383 "!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
1384 does not.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1385
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1386 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
1387 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
1388 Then rebuild the speller.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1389
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1390 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
1391 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
1392
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1393 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
1394 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
1395 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
1396 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
1397 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1399 * On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1400 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1401
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1402 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1403 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1404 known to work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1405
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1406 * On Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1407 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1408
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1409 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1410
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1411 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1412 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1413 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1414 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1415 AltGr has been pressed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1416
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1417 * Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1418
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1419 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1420 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1421 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1422 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1423
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1424 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1425 well. The problem lies in the X-server settings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1426
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1427 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1428 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1429 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1430 selection".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1431
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1432 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1433 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1434 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
1435 here.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1436
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1437 * On Solaris 2, Emacs dumps core when built with Motif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1438
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1439 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1440 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1441 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1442 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1443 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1444 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1445 are currently recommended for your host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1446
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1447 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1448 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1449 105284-18 might fix it again.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1450
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1451 * 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
1452
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1453 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
1454 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
1455 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
1456 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1457
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1458 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1459 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1460 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1461 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1462 should do.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1463
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1464 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
1465 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
1466 libraries.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1467
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1468 * Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1469
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1470 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1471 either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1472 calls for specifying this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1473
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1474 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1475 mail-host-address to the value you want.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1476
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1477 * Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs, on UnixWare 2.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1478
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1479 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1480 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1481 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1482 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1483 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1484 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1485
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1486 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1487 But you have to be root to do it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1488
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1489 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel:
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1490
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1491 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit
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1492 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard "
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1493 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit
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1494 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard "
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1495 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
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1496
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1497 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.)
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1498 These changes take effect when you reboot.
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1499
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1500 * Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions.
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1501
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1502 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when
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1503 scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this
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1504 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars
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1505 on the right (as they were in Emacs 19).
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1506
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1507 Here's how to do this:
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1508
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1509 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
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1510
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1511 If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1512 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1513 to normal, do
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1514
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1515 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left)
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parents:
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1516
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1517 * Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes.
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1518
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1519 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1520 supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires
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parents:
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1521 many different fonts, collected into a fontset.
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1522
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1523 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1524 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes.
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parents:
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1525 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts.
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1526
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1527 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can
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1528 display all the characters Emacs supports.
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1529
35249
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
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1530 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
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1531 missing glyph and no default character. This is known ot occur for
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
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1532 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
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1533 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
1534 of this character to display a space.
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
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1535
25853
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1536 * Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines.
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1537
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1538 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution.
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1539
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1540 * Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should".
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1541
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1542 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller
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1543 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1544 lines do not overlap.
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parents:
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1545
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1546 * You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1547 video, but later frames are not in inverse video.
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1548
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1549 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1550 your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to
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parents:
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1551 check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library.
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parents:
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1552
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1553 * In FreeBSD 2.1.5, useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other
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parents:
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1554 directories that have the +t bit.
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1555
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1556 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1557 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory
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parents:
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1558 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1559 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else.
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parents:
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1560
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1561 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using
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1562 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h.
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1563
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parents:
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1564 * When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down'
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parents:
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1565 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs.
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1566
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1567 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit':
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1568
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1569 dbxenv output_short_file_name off
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parents:
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1570
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parents:
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1571 * Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually
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1572 appear on disk.
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parents:
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1573
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1574 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1575 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1576 implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to
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parents:
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1577 detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1578 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1579 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails.
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parents:
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1580
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1581 * "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key.
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parents:
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1582
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parents:
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1583 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1584 will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1585 in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1586 did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1587 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you
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parents:
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1588 must pick one meaning or the other for any given key.
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parents:
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1589
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1590 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1591 them to two different keys.
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1592
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parents:
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1593 * Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup, on AIX4.2.
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1594
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1595 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1596 without optimization; that should avoid the problem.
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parents:
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1597
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1598 * movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server.
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parents:
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1599
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1600 Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1601 NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the
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parents:
diff changeset
1602 entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1603 listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1604 the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1605 old POP protocol.
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parents:
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1606
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1607 * Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
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parents:
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1608
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parents:
diff changeset
1609 This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1610 use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with
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parents:
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1611 an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that
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parents:
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1612 happens to exist on your X server).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1613
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parents:
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1614 * Emacs crashes when you use Bibtex mode.
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parents:
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1615
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parents:
diff changeset
1616 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1617 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit')
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1618 to raise the stack size limit before you run Emacs.
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parents:
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1619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1620 Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main'
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parents:
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1621 (src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1622
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parents:
diff changeset
1623 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on HPUX 9 after you delete a frame.
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parents:
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1624
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parents:
diff changeset
1625 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With
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parents:
diff changeset
1626 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1627 does not happen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1628
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parents:
diff changeset
1629 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame.
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parents:
diff changeset
1630
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1631 We suspect that this is a similar bug in the X libraries provided by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1632 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1633 makes the problem stop:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1634
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1635 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02
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1636 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03
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1637 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01
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diff changeset
1638 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01
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parents:
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1639
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parents:
diff changeset
1640 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1641 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1642
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1643 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1644 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1645 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1647 * Problems running Perl under Emacs on Windows NT/95.
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parents:
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1648
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1649 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1650 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1651
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1652 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1653 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1654 with the user.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1655
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1656 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1657 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to
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parents:
diff changeset
1658 communicate with the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1659
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1660 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1661 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1662 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1663 stdin.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1664
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1665 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1666
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1667 For Perl 4:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1668
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1669 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993
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parents:
diff changeset
1670 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1671 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1672 *** 68,74 ****
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parents:
diff changeset
1673 $rcfile=".perldb";
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parents:
diff changeset
1674 }
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parents:
diff changeset
1675 else {
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parents:
diff changeset
1676 ! $console = "con";
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parents:
diff changeset
1677 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1678 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1679
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1680 --- 68,74 ----
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parents:
diff changeset
1681 $rcfile=".perldb";
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parents:
diff changeset
1682 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1683 else {
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parents:
diff changeset
1684 ! $console = "";
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parents:
diff changeset
1685 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1686 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1688
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1689 For Perl 5:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1690 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1691 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1692 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1693 *** 22,28 ****
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1694 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1695 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1696 elsif (-e "con") {
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parents:
diff changeset
1697 ! $console = "con";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1698 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1699 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1700 else {
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parents:
diff changeset
1701 --- 22,28 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1702 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1703 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1704 elsif (-e "con") {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1705 ! $console = "";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1706 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1707 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1708 else {
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parents:
diff changeset
1709
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1710 * Problems running DOS programs on Windows NT versions earlier than 3.51.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1711
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1712 Some DOS programs, such as pkzip/pkunzip will not work at all, while
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1713 others will only work if their stdin is redirected from a file or NUL.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1714
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1715 When a DOS program does not work, a new process is actually created, but
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1716 hangs. It cannot be interrupted from Emacs, and might need to be killed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1717 by an external program if Emacs is hung waiting for the process to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1718 finish. If Emacs is not waiting for it, you should be able to kill the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1719 instance of ntvdm that is running the hung process from Emacs, if you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1720 can find out the process id.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1722 It is safe to run most DOS programs using call-process (eg. M-! and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1723 M-|) since stdin is then redirected from a file, but not with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1724 start-process since that redirects stdin to a pipe. Also, running DOS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1725 programs in a shell buffer prompt without redirecting stdin does not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1726 work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1727
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1728 * Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs:
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1729
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1730 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems:
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1731
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1732 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get
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1733 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com';
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1734 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs.
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1735
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1736 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos
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1737 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link
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1738 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the
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1739 incorrect library functions.
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1740
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e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
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1741 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
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1742
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1743 If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
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1744 Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
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1745 program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
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1746 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
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parents: 37453
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1747 the front of your PATH environment variable.
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
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1748
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1749 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
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1750 like make-docfile.
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1751
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1752 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
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1753 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
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1754 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
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1755 the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
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1756
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1757 * Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other
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1758 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled.
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1759
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
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1760 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits
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1761 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find
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1762 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout
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1763 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs.
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1764
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
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1765 Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load
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1766 the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and
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1767 Lisp.
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1768
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1769 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN
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1770 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6
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1771 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
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1772 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
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1773 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
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1774 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
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1775 explains this issue in more detail.
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1776
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1777 Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for
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1778 MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported
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1779 by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an
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1780 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating
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1781 them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs
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1782 must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
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1783 properly truncated.
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1784
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1785 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
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1786
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1787 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face"
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1788
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1789 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs
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1790 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the
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1791 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then
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diff changeset
1792 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't
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1793 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be
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1794 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an
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1795 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for
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diff changeset
1796 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of
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1797 your system works as before.
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1798
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1799 * On Windows 95, Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs.
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1800
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1801 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95.
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1802 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6.
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1803
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1804 * Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on Windows 95.
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1805
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1806 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If
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1807 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
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diff changeset
1808 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way.
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1809
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1810 * `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.
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1811
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diff changeset
1812 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in
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diff changeset
1813 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a
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diff changeset
1814 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also
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diff changeset
1815 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support
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1816 does not work with this version of ncurses.
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1817
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1818 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
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1819
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1820 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
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diff changeset
1821
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diff changeset
1822 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of
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diff changeset
1823 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such
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diff changeset
1824 as GCC.
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1825
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1826 * Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly truncated
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parents:
diff changeset
1827 on GNU/Linux systems.
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1828
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diff changeset
1829 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version
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diff changeset
1830 1.3.75.
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1831
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diff changeset
1832 * Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems.
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1833
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diff changeset
1834 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1835 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1836 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it
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diff changeset
1837 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16.
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parents:
diff changeset
1838
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parents:
diff changeset
1839 Using the old library version is a workaround.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1840
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parents:
diff changeset
1841 * On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time).
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parents:
diff changeset
1842
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diff changeset
1843 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1844 version of Solaris that you are using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1845
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diff changeset
1846 * Emacs dumps core on startup, on Solaris.
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parents:
diff changeset
1847
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parents:
diff changeset
1848 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch
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parents:
diff changeset
1849 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1850 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1851 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1852 However, that linker version won't work with CDE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1853
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parents:
diff changeset
1854 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if
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parents:
diff changeset
1855 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
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parents:
diff changeset
1856 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1857 for certain.
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diff changeset
1858
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diff changeset
1859 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1860 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
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parents:
diff changeset
1861 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1862
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parents:
diff changeset
1863 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1864 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1865
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parents:
diff changeset
1866 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1867 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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parents:
diff changeset
1868
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parents:
diff changeset
1869 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and
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parents:
diff changeset
1870 Solaris 2.5.
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parents:
diff changeset
1871
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parents:
diff changeset
1872 * Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called, on Solaris.
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parents:
diff changeset
1873
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parents:
diff changeset
1874 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1875 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1876 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC.
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parents:
diff changeset
1877
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parents:
diff changeset
1878 * "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes on HPUX, in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1879 Emacs built with Motif.
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parents:
diff changeset
1880
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parents:
diff changeset
1881 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1882 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1883
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parents:
diff changeset
1884 * On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1885
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1886 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1887 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1888 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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parents:
diff changeset
1889
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parents:
diff changeset
1890 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1891
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1892 * "out of virtual swap space" on Irix 5.3
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1893
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parents:
diff changeset
1894 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1895 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1896 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1897 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1898 command `swap -l'.
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diff changeset
1899
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diff changeset
1900 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1901 line like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
1902
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parents:
diff changeset
1903 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0
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parents:
diff changeset
1904
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parents:
diff changeset
1905 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1906 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1907 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1908 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1909 information.
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diff changeset
1910
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diff changeset
1911 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1912 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1913 on the network that can log on to the host.
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diff changeset
1914
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diff changeset
1915 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1916 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1917 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1918 icons.
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diff changeset
1919
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diff changeset
1920 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1921 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1922 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1923 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1924
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parents:
diff changeset
1925 * With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1926 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
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parents:
diff changeset
1927
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diff changeset
1928 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went
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diff changeset
1929 away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was
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1930 XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works.
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1931
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diff changeset
1932 * On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
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1933
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1934 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
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1935 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
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diff changeset
1936 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
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diff changeset
1937 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
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1938
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1939 * On SunOS 4, Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server
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1940 (or log out, if you logged in using X).
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1941
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1942 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem.
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1943
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1944 * On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
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1945 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
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1946
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1947 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
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1948 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
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1949 Definitions" to make them defined.
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1950
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1951 * On SunOS, you get linker errors
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1952 ld: Undefined symbol
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1953 _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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1954 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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1955
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1956 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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1957 or link libXmu statically.
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1958
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1959 * On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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1960 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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1961 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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1962
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1963 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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1964 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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1965 you build Emacs:
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1966
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1967 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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1968 chmod 664 libIM.a
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1969 ranlib libIM.a
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1970
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1971 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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1972 Makefile).
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1973
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1974 * Unpredictable segmentation faults on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4.
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1975
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1976 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with
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1977 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0.
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1978
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1979 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
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1980
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1981 * Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for
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1982 Windows.
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1983
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1984 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
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1985 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
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1986 problem.
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1987
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1988 * Emacs crashes at startup on MSDOS.
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1989
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1990 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management,
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1991 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet
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1992 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real
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1993 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler.
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1994 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround.
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1995
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1996 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without
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1997 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more
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1998 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp
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1999 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.)
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2000
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2001 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory
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2002 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider
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2003 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches)
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2004 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See
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2005 the djgpp faq for configuration hints.
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2006
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2007 * A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
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2008
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2009 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
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2010 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
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2011
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2012 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position
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2013
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2014 * Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c.
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2015
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2016 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve
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2017 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
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2018 Emacs's configure script.
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2019
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2020 * Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c.
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2021
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2022 This results from a bug in GNU Sed version 2.03. To solve the
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2023 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's
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2024 configure script.
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2025
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2026 * On Sunos 4.1.1, there are errors compiling sysdep.c.
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2027
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2028 If you get errors such as
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2029
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2030 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
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2031 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
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2032 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined
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2033
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2034 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky
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2035 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure
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2036 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must
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2037 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same
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2038 ones available when you build Emacs.
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2039
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2040 * The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
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2041 other non-English HP keyboards too).
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2042
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2043 This is because HPUX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
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2044 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
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2045 configures the X server.
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2046
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2047 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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2048 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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2049 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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2050 EOF
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2051
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2052 xmodmap - << EOF
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2053 clear mod1
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2054 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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2055 add mod1 = Meta_L
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2056 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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2057 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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2058 EOF
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2059
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2060 * The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
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2061
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2062 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
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2063 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
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2064 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
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2065 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
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2066 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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2067
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2068 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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2069
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2070 * Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse.
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2071
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2072 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and
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2073 that replacing the mouse made it stop.
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2074
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2075 * Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
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2076
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2077 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
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2078 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
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2079 to allocate ptys reliably.
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2080
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2081 * On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
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2082
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2083 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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2084 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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2085 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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2086 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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2087 syms.h.
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2088
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2089 * Slow startup on Linux-based GNU systems.
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2090
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2091 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
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2092 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
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2093
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2094 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
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2095 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
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2096 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
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2097 networked and non-networked machines.
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2098
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2099 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
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2100
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2101 ** Networked Case
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2102
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2103 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
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2104 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
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2105 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
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2106
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2107 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME
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2108
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2109 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
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2110 lines:
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2111
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2112 order hosts, bind
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2113 multi on
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2114
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2115 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
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2116 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
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2117 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
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2118 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
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2119
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2120 ** Non-Networked Case
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2121
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2122 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
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2123 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
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2124 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
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2125 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
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2126 file is not necessary with this approach.
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2127
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2128 * On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
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2129 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
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2130
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2131 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
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2132 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
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2133
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2134 #if ThreadedX
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2135 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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2136 #endif
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2137
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2138 to:
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2139
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2140 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
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2141 #if ThreadedX
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2142 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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2143 #endif
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2144 #endif
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2145
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2146 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
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2147 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
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2148 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
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2149 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
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2150 definition for your type of machine and system.
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2151
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2152 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
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2153 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
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2154 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
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2155
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2156 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch
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2157 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
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2158 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
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2159 patch.
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2160
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2161 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
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2162 he changed
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2163 #define ThreadedX YES
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2164 to
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2165 #define ThreadedX NO
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2166 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
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2167 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
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2168 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
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2169
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2170 * With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice
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2171 to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
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2172
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2173 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
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2174 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
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2175 another escape character in kermit. One user did
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2176
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2177 set escape-character 17
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2178
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2179 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
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2180
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2181 * The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
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2182
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2183 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
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2184
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2185 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
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2186
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2187 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
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2188 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
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2189 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
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2190 the resource prevents the problem.
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2191
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2192 * Emacs gets hung shortly after startup, on Sunos 4.1.3.
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2193
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2194 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that
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2195 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug:
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2196
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2197 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01
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2198 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01
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2199 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01
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2200 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02
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2201 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
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2202
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2203 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out
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2204 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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2205
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2206 * Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X.
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2207
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2208 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was
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2209 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to
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2210 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2211 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use
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2212 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers.
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2213 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header
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2214 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2215 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2216 not to work.
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2217
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2218 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir
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2219 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir
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2220 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2221 same directory where system header files are kept.
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2222
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2223 * On Solaris 2.x, GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported"
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2224
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2225 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2226 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2227 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2228 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as
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2229 described in the Solaris FAQ
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2230 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is
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2231 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later.
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2232
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2233 * The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
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2234
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2235 This shell command should fix it:
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2236
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2237 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
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2238
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2239 * Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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parents:
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2240
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2241 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2242 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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2243 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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2244 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2245 GCC.
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2246
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2247 * On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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2248
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2249 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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2250 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
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2251 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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2252
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2253 * You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version).
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2254
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2255 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus
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2256 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you
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2257 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2258 the Files menu).
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2259
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2260 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is
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2261 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really
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2262 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a
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2263 workaround can be found.
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2264
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2265 * Unusable default font on SCO 3.2v4.
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2266
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2267 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings
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2268 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such
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2269 fonts, so it does not work.
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2270
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2271 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is
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2272 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal
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2273 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources
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2274 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these
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2275 resources affect Emacs also:
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2276
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2277 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-*
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2278 *Background: scoBackground
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2279 *Foreground: scoForeground
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2280
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2281 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for
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2282 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents:
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2283
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2284 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
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2285 Emacs*Background: white
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2286 Emacs*Foreground: black
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2287
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diff changeset
2288 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to
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2289 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server
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2290 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop
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2291 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell
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2292 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the
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2293 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs,
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2294 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the
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2295 Open Desktop display.
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2296
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2297 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO
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2298 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually.
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2299
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2300 * rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields".
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2301
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2302 This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk.
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2303 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk).
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2304
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2305 * Emacs is slow using X11R5 on HP/UX.
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2306
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2307 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it
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2308 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version
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diff changeset
2309 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a,
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2310 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with
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2311 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to
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2312 install them and rebuild Emacs.
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2313
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2314 * Loading fonts is very slow.
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2315
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2316 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps.
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diff changeset
2317 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font
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diff changeset
2318 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2319 "fonts.scale".
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2320
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2321 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2322 font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2323
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2324 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font
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2325 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26.
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2326 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary.
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parents:
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2327
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2328 * On AIX 3.2.4, releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down.
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parents:
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2329
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2330 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is
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2331 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2332 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2333 treated as control characters.
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2334
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2335 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2336 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2337
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parents:
diff changeset
2338 * display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2339
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parents:
diff changeset
2340 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2341 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2342 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2343 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2344 processes die, in particular pcnfsd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2345
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diff changeset
2346 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2347 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2348
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2349 The only known fix: Don't run display-time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2350
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parents:
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2351 * On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
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parents:
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2352
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parents:
diff changeset
2353 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2354 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2355
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parents:
diff changeset
2356 * Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2357 segmentation fault and core dump.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2358
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2359 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2360 added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2362 x FILENAME, N bytes, B tape blocks
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2363
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2364 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2365 untar it :-).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2366
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2367 * Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2368
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2369 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2370
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2371 /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
2372
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2373 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2374
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2375 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2376 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2377
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2378 * Link failure on IBM AIX 1.3 ptf 0013.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2379
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2380 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2381 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2382 workaround/fix is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2383
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2384 cd /lib
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2385 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2386 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2387
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parents:
diff changeset
2388 * Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose on a Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2389
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2390 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2391 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2392 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2393 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2394 toolkit.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2395
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2396 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2397 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2398 X11R4, then use it in the link.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2399
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parents:
diff changeset
2400 * Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2401
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parents:
diff changeset
2402 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2403 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2404 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2405 where-is-internal in an obsolete way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2406
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2407 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2408
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2409 * In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2410
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2411 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2412 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2413 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2414 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2415
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2416 if ($?EMACS) then
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parents:
diff changeset
2417 if ($EMACS == "t") then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2418 unset edit
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parents:
diff changeset
2419 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
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parents:
diff changeset
2420 endif
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parents:
diff changeset
2421 endif
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parents:
diff changeset
2422
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parents:
diff changeset
2423 * An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2424 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2425
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2426 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2427 emacs*Cursor: black
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2428 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2429 that isn't a color.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2430
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2431 The fix is to correct your X resources.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2432
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2433 * Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1 using --with-x-toolkit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2434
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2435 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2436 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2437 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2438
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2439 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2440 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2441
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2442 * Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2443
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2444 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2445 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2446 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2448 * src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2449
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2450 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2451 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2452
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2453 * Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2454
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2455 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2456 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2457 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2458 font.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2459
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2460 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2461 your font path, like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2462
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2463 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2464
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2465 * Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2466
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2467 An X resource of this form can cause the problem:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2468
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2469 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2470
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2471 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2472 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2473 want, rewrite the resource.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2474
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2475 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2476 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2477 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2478
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2479 * --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2480
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2481 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2482 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2483 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2484 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2485 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2486 and Solaris in version 19.29.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2487
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2488 * `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2489
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2490 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2491 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2492 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2493 hand.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2494
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2495 * --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong on BSD/386.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2496
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2497 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2498 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2499 such as bash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2500
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2501 * Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies, on Sunos 5.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2502
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2503 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2504 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2505 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2506 communicating through pipes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2507
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2508 * Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2509
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2510 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2511 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2512 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2513 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2514 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2515 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2516 obtain the destination address.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2517
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2518 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2519 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2520 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2521 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2522 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2523 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2524 of this writing, these official versions are available:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2525
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2526 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2527 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2528 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2529 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2530 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2532 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2533 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2534
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2535 * On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2537 Could not load program emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2538 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2539 Error was: Exec format error
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2541 or this one:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2542
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2543 Could not load program .emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2544 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2545 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2546 Error was: Exec format error
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2547
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2548 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2549 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2550
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2551 * On AIX, you get this compiler error message:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2552
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2553 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2554 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2555
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2556 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2557 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2558 X11Dev... with smit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2559
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2560 * You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2561
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2562 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2563 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2564 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2565 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2566
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2567 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2568
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2569 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2570
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2571 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2572 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2573 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2574
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2575 * C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2576
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2577 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2578 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2579 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2580
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2581 * Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2582
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2583 These control the actions of Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2584 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2585 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2586 "load" will search.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2587
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2588 If you observe strange problems, check for these and get rid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2589 of them, then try again.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2590
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2591 * After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2592
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2593 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2594 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2595 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2596
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2597 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2598 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2599 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2600 configure script) that reads:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2601 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2602 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2603 the kernel bug.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2604
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2605 * Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2606 directly with an X server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2607
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2608 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2609 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2610 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2611 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2612 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2613 have made the key binding correctly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2614
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2615 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2616 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2617 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2618 default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2619
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2620 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2621
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2622 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2623 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2624
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2625 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2626 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2627 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2628 modifier bit not otherwise used.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2629
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2630 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2631 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2632 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2633 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2634
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2635 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2636 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2637
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2638 * `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2639
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2640 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2641 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2642 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2643 value is just ten seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2644
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2645 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2647 * `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2648
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2649 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2650 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2651 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2652 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2653
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2654 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2655 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2656
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2657 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2658 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2659 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2660 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2661
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2662 * On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2663
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2664 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2665 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2666 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2667
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2668 * Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2669
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2670 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2671
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2672 * Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2673 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
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2674 * Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
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2675 * GNUs can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
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2676
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2677 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2678 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2679 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2680 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2681
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2682 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2683 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2684
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2685 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2686 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2688 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2690 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2691 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2692 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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2693 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2694 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2695 be careful not to lose the others.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2696
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2697 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2698
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2699 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
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2700
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2701 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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2702 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2703 again to say this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2704
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2705 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
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2706
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2707 * 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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2708
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2709 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2710
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2711 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2712
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2713 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2714
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2715 * Self documentation messages are garbled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2716
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2717 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2718 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2719 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2720
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2721 * Trouble using ptys on AIX.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2722
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2723 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2724 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2725
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2726 * Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2727
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2728 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2729
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2730 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2731 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2732 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2733 but tty is giving it back 3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2734
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2735 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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2736 word:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2737
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2738 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2739
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2740 should be changed to:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2741
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2742 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2743
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2744 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2745 and into .login.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2746
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2747 * Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2749 Use the shell command `xset bc' to make the old X Menu package work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2750
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2751 * Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2752 * `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2753
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2754 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2755 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2756 the environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2757
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2758 * Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2759
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2760 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2761 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2762 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2763 with a floating point option other than the default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2764
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2765 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2766 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2767 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2768 floating point option: -fsoft.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2769
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2770 * Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2771
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2772 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2773 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2774 tell Emacs to compensate for this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2775
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2776 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2777 whether this problem is present on a given system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2778
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2779 * Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2780 as a concentrator.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2781
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2782 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2783 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2784
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2785 * M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2786
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2787 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2788 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2789
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2790 * Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2791 terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2792
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2793 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2794 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2795 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2796 emulates.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2797
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2798 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2799 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2800 it only if it is undefined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2801
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2802 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2803
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2804 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2805 happen in a non-login shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2806
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2807 * X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2808
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2809 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2810 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2811 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2812 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2813
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2814 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2815 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2816 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2817
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2818 The easy way to do this is to put
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2819
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2820 (setq x-sigio-bug t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2821
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2822 in your site-init.el file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2823
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2824 * Problem with remote X server on Suns.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2825
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2826 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2827 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2828 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2829 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2830
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2831 * Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2832
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2833 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2834
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2835 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2836
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2837 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2838 Here is how to make more of them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2839
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2840 % cd /dev
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2841 % ls pty*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2842 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2843 % /etc/crpty 8
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2844 # creates eight new pty's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2845
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2846 * Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2847
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2848 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2849 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2850
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2851 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2852 space available on the machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2854 On 68000's, it has also happened because of bugs in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2855 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2856 for large blocks (many pages).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2857
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2858 * test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2859 * or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2860 * or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2861 * or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2862
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2863 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2864 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2865 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2866
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2867 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2868 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2869 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2870 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2871 when unpacking the shell archive.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2872
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2873 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2874 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2875 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2876
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2877 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2878 nonprinting characters, you can fix them:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2879
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2880 1) Record the names of all the .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2881 2) Delete all the .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2882 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2883 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2884 4) Remake emacs. It should work now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2885 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2886 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2887 You may need to increase the value of the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2888 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2889 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2890 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2891 and remake temacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2892 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2893
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2894 * temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2895
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2896 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2897 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2898 space than was allocated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2899
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2900 This could be caused by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2901 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2902 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2903 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2904 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2905 if you have received Emacs from some other site
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2906 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2907 deleting that file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2908 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2909 (not from the directory you expected).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2910 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2911 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2912 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2913 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2914 the space required.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2915
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2916 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2917 of PURESIZE in puresize.h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2918
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2919 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2920 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2921 problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2922
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2923 * Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2924
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2925 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2926 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2927 will not be seen. To fix this, do M-x byte-recompile-directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2928 and specify the directory that contains the Lisp files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2929
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2930 Emacs should print a warning when loading a .elc file which is older
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2931 than the corresponding .el file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2932
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2933 * The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2934
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2935 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2936
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2937 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2938 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2939 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2940 value in the man page for a.out (5).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2941
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2942 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2943 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2944 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2945 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2946 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2947
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2948 * Compilation errors on VMS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2949
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2950 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2951 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2952 This is not an error. Ignore it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2953
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2954 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2955 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2956
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2957 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2958 in conditional expressions. The bug is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2959 char c = -1, d = 1;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2960 int i;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2961
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2962 i = d ? c : d;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2963 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2964 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2965 constructs in Emacs have been fixed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2966
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2967 * rmail gets error getting new mail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2968
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2969 rmail gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2970 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2971 the protocol defined by /bin/mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2972
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2973 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2974 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2975 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2976 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2977 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2978 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2979 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2980
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2981 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2982 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2983 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2984 `mail'. You can use these commands (as root):
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2985
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2986 chgrp mail movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2987 chmod 2755 movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2988
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2989 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2990 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2991 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2992 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2993 make install.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2994
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2995 chgrp mail movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2996 chmod 2755 movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2997
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2998 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2999 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3000 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3001 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3002 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3003 directory copy is ineffective.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3004
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3005 * Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3006
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3007 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3008 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3009 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3010 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3011 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3012 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3013 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3014 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3015
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3016 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3017
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3018 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3019 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3020 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3021
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3022 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3023 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3024 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3025 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3026 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3027 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3028
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3029 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3030 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3031 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3032 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3033 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3034 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3035 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3036 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3037 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3038
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3039 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3040 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3041 codes. You might as well try it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3042
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3043 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3044 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3045 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3046 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3047 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3048 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3049 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3050 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3051
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3052 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3053 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3054 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3055 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3056 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3057 control handling.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3058
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3059 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3060 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3061 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3062 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3063 other control characters are already used by emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3064
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3065 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3066 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3067 order to continue.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3068
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3069 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3070 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3071 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3072 automatically. Here is an example:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3073
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3074 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3075
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3076 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3077 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3078 manually.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3079
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3080 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3081 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3082 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3083 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3084 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3085 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3086 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3087 of inferior systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3088
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3089 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3090
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3091 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3092 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3093 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3094 that wants to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3095
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3096 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3097 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3098 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3099
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3100 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3101 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3102 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3103
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3104 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net connection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3105
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3106 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3107 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3108 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3109 control on the local system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3110
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3111 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3112 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3113 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3114 "stty start u stop u" will do this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3115
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3116 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3117 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3118 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3119
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3120 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3121 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3122 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3123 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3124
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3125 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3126
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3127 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3128 info.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3129
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3130 * Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3131
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3132 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3133 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3134 the combination of features specified for that terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3135
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3136 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3137 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3138 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3139 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3140 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3141 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3142 There are several possibilities:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3143
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3144 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3146 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3147 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3148
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3149 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3150 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3151 by termcap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3152
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3153 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3154 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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3155 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3156 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3157 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3158 tested on many kinds of terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3159
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3160 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3161
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
3162 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3163 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3164 for certain terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3165
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3166 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3167 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3168
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3169 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3170 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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3171
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3172 * Output from Control-V is slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3174 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3175 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3176 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3177 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3178 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3179 it will scroll them to the top of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3180
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3181 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3182 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3183 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3184 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3185 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3186 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3187 time as the operations really take.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3188
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3189 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3190 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3191 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3192 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3193 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3194 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3195 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3196 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3197 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3198 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3199
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3200 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3201 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3202 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3203 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3204 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3205 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3206 `cm' string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3207
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3208 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3209 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3210 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3211
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3212 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3213 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3214
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3215 * Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3216
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3217 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3218
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3219 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3220 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3221
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3222 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3223
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3224 * You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3226 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3227 after a day or two.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3228
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3229 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3230 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3231 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3232 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3233 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3234 to it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3235
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3236 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3237 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3238 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3239 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3240 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3241 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3242
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3243 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3244 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3245 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3246 You can probably access help-command via f1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3247
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3248 * Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3249 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3250 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3251 causes it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3252
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3253 There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3254 call in the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3255
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3256 The first is that the fsync() call is handled as another name for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3257 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3258 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3259 to make sure that the bits are on the disk.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3260
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3261 This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3262
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3263 The second, more serious problem, is that fsync() is treated as a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3264 non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3265 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3266 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3267 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3268 is done) is a bad idea; unfortunately, changing it will break the RFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3269 protocol. No fix was supplied for this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3270
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3271 (as always, your line numbers may vary)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3272
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3273 % rcsdiff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3274 RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3275 retrieving revision 1.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3276 diff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3277 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3278 --- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3279 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3280 *** 163,169 ****
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3281 /*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3282 * No return sent for close or fsync!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3283 */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3284 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close || syscall == RSYS_fsync)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3285 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3286 else
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3287 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3288 --- 166,172 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3289 /*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3290 * No return sent for close or fsync!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3291 */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3292 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3293 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3294 else
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3295 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3296
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3297 * Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3298
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3299 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3300
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3301 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3302 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3303
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3304 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3305 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3306 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3307 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3308 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3309 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3310 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3311
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3312 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3313 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3314 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3315 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3316 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3317 Lisp_Object *args;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3318 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3319 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3320 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3321 Lisp_Object *args;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3322 Lisp_Object tem;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3323 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3324 tem = args[i];
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3325 ... foo (r, tem, ...)...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3326 causes the problem to go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3327 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3328 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3329
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3330 * 68000 C compiler problems
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3331
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3332 Various 68000 compilers have different problems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3333 These are some that have been observed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3334
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3335 ** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3336 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3337 if x is of type Lisp_Object.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3338
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3339 ** "cannot reclaim" error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3340
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3341 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3342 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3343 simpler expressions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3344
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3345 ** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3346
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3347 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3348 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3349
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3350 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; };
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3351
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3352 lose (arg)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3353 struct foo arg;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3354 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3355 test ((int *) arg.y);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3356 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3357
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3358 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3359 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3360 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3362 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3363 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3364
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3365 * C compilers lose on returning unions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3366
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3367 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3368 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3369 defined as a union on some rare architectures.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3370
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3371 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3372 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3373