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* lisp/mwheel.el: Fix typo in copyright years. Duplicate 2002 introduced in CVS r1.35. 2003 is a copyrightable year since Emacs 21.3 was released then.
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1 -*- coding: utf-8; mode: text; -*-
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3 Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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6 From README.multi-tty in the multi-tty branch.
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7 Some of this information may be out of date.
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10 THANKS
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13 The following is a (sadly incomplete) list of people who have
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14 contributed to the project by testing, submitting patches, bug
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15 reports, and suggestions. Thanks!
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18 ARISAWA Akihiro <ari@mbf.ocn.ne.jp>
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27 Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
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31 IRIE Tetsuya <irie@t.email.ne.jp>
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44 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
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47 Tom Schutzer-Weissmann <trmsw@yahoo.co.uk>
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50 and many others.
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52 Richard Stallman was kind enough to review an earlier version of my
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53 patches.
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56 STATUS
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57 ------
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59 It still needs to be ported to Windows/Mac/DOS. Both multiple
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60 tty device support and simultaneous X and tty frame support works
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61 fine. Emacsclient has been extended to support opening new tty and X
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62 frames. It has been changed to open new Emacs frames by default.
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64 Tested on GNU/Linux, Solaris 8, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
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66 Known problems:
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68 * GTK support. If you compile your Emacs with the GTK
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69 toolkit, some functionality of multi-tty may be lost. In
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70 particular, you may get crashes while working on multiple X
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71 displays at once. Previous releases of GTK had limitations
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72 and bugs that prevented full-blown multi-display support in
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73 Emacs. (GTK crashed when Emacs tries to disconnect from an
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74 X server.) Things are much improved in the current GTK
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75 version, but if you do experience crashes in libgtk, try
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76 compiling Emacs with the Lucid toolkit instead.
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78 * The single-kboard mode.
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80 If your multi-tty Emacs session seems to be frozen, you
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81 probably have a recursive editing session or a pending
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82 minibuffer prompt (which is a kind of recursive editing) on
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83 another display. To unfreeze your session, switch to that
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84 display and complete the recursive edit, for example by
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85 pressing C-] (`abort-recursive-edit').
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87 I am sorry to say that currently there is no way to break
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88 out of this "single-kboard mode" from a frozen display. If
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89 you are unable to switch to the display that locks the
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90 others (for example because it is on a remote computer),
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91 then you can use emacsclient to break out of all recursive
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92 editing sessions:
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94 emacsclient -e '(top-level)'
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96 Note that this (perhaps) unintuitive behavior is by design.
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97 Single-kboard mode is required because of an intrinsic Emacs
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98 limitation that is very hard to eliminate. (This limitation
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99 is related to the single-threaded nature of Emacs.)
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101 I plan to implement better user notification and support for
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102 breaking out of single-kboard mode from locked displays.
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104 * Mac and DOS support is broken, doesn't even
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105 compile. Multiple display support will probably not provide
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106 new Emacs features on these systems, but the multi-tty
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107 branch changed a few low-level interfaces, and the
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108 system-dependent source files need to be adapted
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109 accordingly. The changes are mostly trivial, so almost
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110 anyone can help, if only by compiling the branch and
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111 reporting the compiler errors.
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114 TESTING
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117 To test the multi-tty feature, start up the Emacs server with the
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118 following commands:
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120 emacs
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121 M-x server-start
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123 and then (from a shell prompt on another terminal) start emacsclient
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124 with
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125 emacsclient -t /optional/file/names... (for a tty frame)
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126 emacsclient /optional/file/names... (for an X frame)
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128 (Make sure both emacs and emacsclient are multi-tty versions.)
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129 You'll hopefully have two fully working, independent frames on
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130 separate terminals. The new frame is closed automatically when you
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131 finish editing the specified files (C-x #), but delete-frame (C-x 5 0)
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133 devices.
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135 Creating new frames on the same tty with C-x 5 2 (make-frame-command)
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136 works, and behaves the same way as in previous Emacs versions. If you
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137 exit emacs, all terminals should be restored to their previous states.
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139 TIPS & TRICKS
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140 -------------
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142 I think the best way to use the new Emacs is to have it running inside
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143 a disconnected GNU screen session, and always use emacsclient for
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144 normal work. One advantage of this is that not a single keystroke of
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145 your work will be lost if the display device that you are using
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146 crashes, or the network connection times out, or whatever. (I had an
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147 extremely unstable X server for some time while I was developing these
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148 patches, and running Emacs this way has saved me a number of M-x
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149 recover-session invocations.)
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151 I use the following two bash scripts to handle my Emacs sessions:
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153 -------------------------------------------------------connect-emacs--
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154 #!/bin/bash
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155 # Usage: connect-emacs <name> <args>...
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156 #
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157 # Connects to the Emacs instance called NAME. Starts up the instance
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158 # if it is not already running. The rest of the arguments are passed
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159 # to emacsclient.
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161 name="$1"
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162 shift
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164 if [ -z "$name" ]; then
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165 echo "Usage: connect_emacs <name> <args>..." >&2
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166 exit 1
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167 fi
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168 preload-emacs "$name" wait
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169 /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-multi-tty -s "$name" "$@"
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170 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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172 -------------------------------------------------------preload-emacs--
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173 #!/bin/bash
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174 # Usage: preload-emacs <name> [<waitp>]
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175 #
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176 # Preloads the Emacs instance called NAME in a detached screen
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177 # session. Does nothing if the instance is already running. If WAITP
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178 # is non-empty, the function waits until the server starts up and
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179 # creates its socket; otherwise it returns immediately.
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181 name="$1"
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182 waitp="$2"
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183 screendir="/var/run/screen/S-$USER"
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184 serverdir="/tmp/emacs$UID"
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185 emacs=/usr/bin/emacs-multi-tty # Or wherever you installed your multi-tty Emacs
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187 if [ -z "$name" ]; then
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188 echo "Usage: preload_emacs <name> [<waitp>]" >&2
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189 exit 1
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190 fi
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192 if [ ! -e "$screendir"/*."$name" ]; then
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193 if [ -e "$serverdir/$name" ]; then
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194 # Delete leftover socket (for the wait option)
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195 rm "$serverdir/$name"
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196 fi
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197 screen -dmS "$name" "$emacs" -nw --eval "(setq server-name \"$name\")" -f server-start
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198 fi
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199 if [ ! -z "$waitp" ]; then
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200 while [ ! -e "$serverdir/$name" ]; do sleep 0.1; done
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201 fi
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202 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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204 I have the following in my profile to have two instances automatically
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205 preloaded for editing and email:
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207 preload-emacs editor
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208 preload-emacs gnus
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210 It is useful to set up short aliases for connect-emacs. I use the
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211 following:
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213 alias edit="connect-emacs editor"
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214 alias e=edit
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215 alias et="connect-emacs editor -t"
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216 alias gnus="connect-emacs gnus"
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219 THINGS TO DO
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220 ------------
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222 ** See if `tty-defined-color-alist' needs to be terminal-local.
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223 Update: Dan says it should be, so convert it.
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224
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225 ** Mikhail Gusarov suggest to add a hook akin to
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226 `after-make-frame-functions' that is called whenever Emacs connects
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227 to a new terminal. Good idea!
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229 ** emacsclient -t on the console does not work after su. You have to
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230 use non-root accounts or start as root to see this.
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232 Login: root
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233 Password:
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234 # su lorentey
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235 $ emacsclient -t
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236 *ERROR*: Could not open file: /dev/tty1
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238 The tty can be opened as /dev/tty by emacsclient, but not by Emacs.
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239 This seems to be a serious problem. Currently my only idea is to
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240 bring back the ugly pty proxy hack from the initial versions of
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241 multi-tty. Suggestions would be appreciated.
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243 Update: we could change emacsclient to pass its open file
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244 descriptor to the Emacs process. Unfortunately, this requires a
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245 new Lisp-level Emacs API, and as file descriptors are not otherwise
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246 exported to Lisp, this approach seems at least as ugly as the pty
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247 proxy idea.
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249 ** lisp/vc.el depends on the terminal type during load time.
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250 `vc-annotate-color-map' is one example that needs to be fixed.
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251
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252 ** Understand how `quit_throw_to_read_char' works, and fix any bugs
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253 that come to light.
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255 ** See if getcjmp can be eliminated somehow. Why does Emacs allow
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256 asynchronous input processing while it's reading input anyway?
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257
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258 ** `delete-frame' events are handled by `special-event-map'
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259 immediately when read by `read_char'. This is fine but it prevents
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260 higher-level keymaps from binding that event to get notified of the
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261 deleted frame.
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263 Sometimes it would be useful for Lisp code to be notified of frame
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264 deletions after they have happened, usually because they want to
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265 clean up after the deleted frame. Not all frame-local states can
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267 `display-splash-screen' uses `recursive-edit' with a special keymap
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268 override to create its buffer---and it leads to all kinds of
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269 nastiness if Emacs stays in this recursive edit mode after the
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270 frame containing the splash screen is deleted. Basically, the
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271 splash-screen implementation wants to throw out of the recursive
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272 edit when the frame is deleted; however, it is not legal to throw
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273 from `delete-frame-functions' because `delete-frame' must not fail.
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274 (Introducing `delete-frame-after-functions' would not help either
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275 because `delete-frame' may not fail at that time either.)
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277 Currently `fancy-splash-screens' installs a
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278 `delete-frame-functions' hook that sets up a timer to exit the
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279 recursive edit. This is an adequate solution, but it would perhaps
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280 be better to have something like a `frame-deleted' event that could
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281 be bound in the normal way.
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282
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283 ** Trouble: `setenv' doesn't actually set environment variables in the
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284 Emacs process. This defeats the purpose of the elaborate
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285 `server-with-environment' magic around the `tgetent' call in
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286 `init_tty'. D'oh.
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287
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288 ** (Possibly) create hooks in struct device for creating frames on a
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289 specific terminal, and eliminate the hackish terminal-related frame
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290 parameters (display, tty, tty-type).
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291
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292 make_terminal_frame
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293 create_tty_output
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295 ** Decide whether to keep the C implementation of terminal parameters,
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297 local environments do not need terminal parameters after all.
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298
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299 ** Move Fsend_string_to_terminal to term.c, and declare get_named_tty
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300 as static, removing it from dispextern.h.
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301 Move fatal to emacs.c and declare it somewhere.
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302
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303 ** Search for `suspend-emacs' references and replace them with
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304 `suspend-frame', if necessary. Ditto for `save-buffers-kill-emacs'
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305 vs. `save-buffers-kill-display'.
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307 ** Emacs crashes when a tty frame is resized so that there is no space
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308 for all its windows. (Tom Schutzer-Weissmann)
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310 ** Report GTK multi-display problems to GTK maintainers. For extra
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311 credit, fix them.
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312
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313 Currently you can not connect to new X displays when you compile
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314 Emacs with GTK support. If you want to play around with GTK
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315 multidisplay (and don't mind core dumps), you can edit src/config.h
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316 and define HAVE_GTK_MULTIDISPLAY there by hand.
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318 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
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320 Update: Han reports that GTK+ version 2.8.9 almost gets display
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321 disconnects right. GTK will probably be fully fixed by the time
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322 multi-tty gets into the trunk.
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323
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324 Update: I am still having problems with GTK+ 2.8.10. I have the
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325 impression that the various multidisplay fixes will only get
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326 released in GTK+ 2.10.
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327
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328 ** Audit `face-valid-attribute-values' usage in customize and
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329 elsewhere. Its return value depends on the current window system.
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330 Replace static initializers using it with runtime functions. For
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331 example, custom's buttons are broken on non-initial device types.
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332
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333 ** Possibly turn off the double C-g feature when there is an X frame.
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334 C.f. (emacs)Emergency Escape.
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336 ** frames-on-display-list should also accept frames.
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337
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338 ** Consider the `tty-type' frame parameter and the `display-tty-type'
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339 function. They serve the exact same purpose. I think it may be
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340 a good idea to eliminate one of them, preferably `tty-type'.
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341
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342 ** The handling of lisp/term/*.el, and frame creation in general, is a
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343 big, big mess. How come the terminal-specific file is loaded by
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344 tty-create-frame-with-faces? I don't think it is necessary to load
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345 these files for each frame; once per terminal should be enough.
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346 Update: lisp/term/*.el is not loaded repeatedly anymore, but
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347 faces.el still needs to be cleaned up.
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349 ** Fix frame-set-background-mode in this branch. It was recently
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350 changed in CVS, and frame.el in multi-tty has not yet been adapted
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351 for the changes. (It needs to look at
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352 default-frame-background-mode.) (Update: maybe it is fixed now;
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353 needs testing.) (Note that the byte compiler has this to say about
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354 term/rxvt.el:)
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356 term/rxvt.el:309:17:Warning: assignment to free variable
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357 `default-frame-background-mode'
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359 ** I think `(set-)terminal-local-value' and the terminal parameter
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360 mechanism should be integrated into a single framework.
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361
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362 (Update: `(set-)terminal-local-value' is now eliminated, but the
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363 terminal-local variables should still be accessible as terminal
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364 parameters. This also applies to `display-name' and similar
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365 functions.)
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367 ** Add the following hooks: after-delete-frame-hook (for server.el,
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368 instead of delete-frame-functions),
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369 after-delete-terminal-functions, after-create-terminal-functions.
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371 ** BULK RENAME: The `display-' prefix of new Lisp-level functions
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372 conflicts with stuff like `display-time-mode'. Use `device-'
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373 or `terminal-' instead. I think I prefer `terminal-'.
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375 It turns out that most of the offending Lisp functions were defined
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376 in the trunk. Therefore, compatibility aliases should be defined
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377 for the following names:
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379 display-color-cells terminal-color-cells
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380 display-color-p terminal-color-p
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381 display-graphic-p terminal-graphic-p
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382 display-grayscale-p terminal-grayscale-p
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383 display-images-p terminal-images-p
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384 display-mm-height terminal-mm-height
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385 display-mm-width terminal-mm-width
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386 display-mouse-p terminal-mouse-p
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387 display-multi-font-p terminal-multi-font-p
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388 display-multi-frame-p terminal-multi-frame-p
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389 display-pixel-height terminal-pixel-height
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390 display-pixel-width terminal-pixel-width
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391 display-pixels-per-inch terminal-pixels-per-inch
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392 display-planes terminal-planes
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393 display-popup-menus-p terminal-popup-menus-p
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394 display-save-under terminal-save-under
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395 display-screens terminal-screens
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396 display-supports-face-attributes-p terminal-supports-face-attributes-p
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397 display-visual-class terminal-visual-class
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398 framep-on-display framep-on-terminal
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399 frames-on-display-list frames-on-terminal-list
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402 were renamed without aliases:
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404 delete-display delete-terminal
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405 display-controlling-tty-p controlling-tty-p
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407 display-live-p terminal-live-p
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408 display-name terminal-name
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409 display-tty-type tty-type
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410 frame-display frame-terminal
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411 selected-display selected-terminal
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412
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413 ** The single-keyboard mode of MULTI_KBOARD is extremely confusing
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414 sometimes; Emacs does not respond to stimuli from other keyboards.
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415 At least a beep or a message would be important, if the single-mode
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417 Nicolaescu.)
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419 Update: selecting a region with the mouse enables single_kboard
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420 under X. This is very confusing.
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422 Update: After discussions with Richard Stallman, this will be
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423 resolved by having locked displays warn the user to wait, and
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424 introducing a complex protocol to remotely bail out of
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425 single-kboard mode by pressing C-g.
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427 Update: Warning the user is not trivial to implement, as Emacs has
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428 only one echo area, shared by all frames. Ideally the warning
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429 should not be displayed on the display that is locking the others.
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430 Perhaps the high probability of user confusion caused by
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431 single_kboard mode deserves a special case in the display code.
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432 Alternatively, it might be good enough to signal single_kboard mode
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433 by changing the modelines or some other frame-local display element
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434 on the locked out displays.
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435
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436 Update: In fact struct kboard does have an echo_string slot.
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437
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438 ** The session management module is prone to crashes when the X
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439 connection is closed and then later I try to connect to a new X
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440 session:
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442 #0 0xb7ebc806 in SmcGetIceConnection () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
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443 #1 0x080e6641 in x_session_check_input (bufp=0xbf86c9c0) at xsmfns.c:144
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444 #2 0x080d3bbc in XTread_socket (device=0xa722ff8, expected=1, hold_quit=0xbf86ca90) at xterm.c:7037
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445 #3 0x080fa404 in read_avail_input (expected=1) at keyboard.c:6696
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446 #4 0x080fa4ca in handle_async_input () at keyboard.c:6900
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447 #5 0x080d51fa in x_term_init (display_name=162628899, xrm_option=0x0, resource_name=0x857068c "emacs") at xterm.c:10622
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448 #6 0x080d920e in x_display_info_for_name (name=162628899) at xfns.c:3975
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449 #7 0x080d92f9 in check_x_display_info (object=1) at xfns.c:274
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450 #8 0x080d97b8 in Fx_create_frame (parms=151221485) at xfns.c:3016
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451 #9 0x0815bf72 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbf86ceec) at eval.c:2851
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453 I installed a workaround to prevent this. The X session manager is
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454 only contacted when the very first display in the Emacs session is
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455 an X display. Also, x_delete_display() on this display aborts
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456 session management, and XTread_socket only calls
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457 x_session_check_input when it is called for the display that the
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458 session was opened on. While this does not really fix the bug, it
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459 makes it much less frequent, because session manager support will
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460 not normally be enabled when Emacs can survive the shutdown of the
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461 X server.
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463 See if xsmfns.c should be updated.
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465 ** Hunt down display-related functions in frame.el and extend them all
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466 to accept display ids.
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468 ** rif->flush_display_optional (NULL) calls should be replaced by a
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469 new global function.
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470
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471 ** The set-locale-environment hack (adding the DISPLAY option) should
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472 be replaced with a clean design.
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473
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474 ** standard-display-table should be display-local.
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475 standard-display-european should be display-local.
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476
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477 ** With iswitchb-default-method set to 'always-frame, only frames on
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478 the current display should be considered. This might involve
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479 extending `get-buffer-window'.
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480
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481 ** Have a look at Vlocale_coding_system. Seems like it would be a
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482 tedious job to localize it, although most references use it for
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483 interfacing with libc and are therefore OK with the global
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484 definition.
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485
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486 Exceptions found so far: x-select-text and
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487 x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value.
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488
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489 ** Have a look at fatal_error_hook.
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490
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491 ** Have a look at set_frame_matrix_frame.
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493 ** Check if we got term-setup-hook right.
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494
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495 ** I think tip_frame should be display-local.
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497 ** Check display reference count handling in x_create_tip_frame.
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499 ** make-frame does not correctly handle extra parameters in its
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500 argument:
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502 (frame-parameter (make-frame (list (cons 'foobar 42))) 'foobar)
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503 => nil
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505 (This is likely an error in the CVS trunk.)
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507 ** Dan Nicolaescu suggests that -nw should be added as an alias for -t
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508 in emacsclient. Good idea. (Alas, implementing this is not
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509 trivial, getopt_long does not seem to support two-letter ``short''
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510 options. Patches are welcome.)
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512 ** Mark Plaksin suggests that emacsclient should accept the same
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513 X-related command-line arguments as Emacs. Most of the X-related
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514 argument-handling is done in Lisp, so this should be quite easy to
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515 implement. (For example, Samium Gromoff wants emacsclient to
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516 support --geometry; implementing this would add that support.)
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518 ** Gergely Nagy suggests that C-x # should only kill the current
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519 frame, not any other emacsclient frame that may have the same file
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520 opened for editing. I think I agree with him.
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522 ** Very strange bug: visible-bell does not work on secondary
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523 terminals in xterm and konsole. The screen does flicker a bit,
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524 but it's so quick it isn't noticable.
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526 (Update: This is probably some problem with padding or whatnot on
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527 the secondary terminals.)
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528
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529 ** Move baud_rate to struct display.
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530
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531 ** Implement support for starting an interactive Emacs session without
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532 an initial frame. (The user would connect to it and open frames
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533 later, with emacsclient.)
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534
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535 ** Fix Mac support (I can't do this entirely myself). Note that the
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536 current state of Mac-specific source files in the multi-tty tree
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537 are not useful; before starting work on Mac support, revert to
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538 pristine, pre-multi-tty versions.
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539
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540 ** Fix DOS support (I can't do this entirely myself). Note that the
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541 current state of DOS-specific source files in the multi-tty tree
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542 are not useful; before starting work on DOS support, revert to
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543 pristine, pre-multi-tty versions.
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544
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545 ** Fix Windows support. Currently bootstraping works on w32, but Emacs
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546 crashes on startup and none of the multi-tty features are
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547 implemented. Many XXX comments mark things that probably need
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548 updating, ChangeLogs will help in spotting changes to X specific
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549 files that may need porting.
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550
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551 ** Do a grep on XXX and ?? for more issues.
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552
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553 ** flow-ctrl.el must be updated.
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554
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555 ** Fix stuff_char for multi-tty. Doesn't seem to be of high priority.
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556
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557 DIARY OF CHANGES
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558 ----------------
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559
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560 (ex-TODO items with explanations.)
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561
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562 -- Introduce a new struct for terminal devices.
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563
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564 (Done, see struct tty_output. The list of members is not yet
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565 complete.)
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566
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567 -- Change the bootstrap procedure to initialize tty_list.
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568
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569 (Done, but needs review.)
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570
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571 -- Change make-terminal-frame to support specifying another tty.
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572
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573 (Done, new frame parameters: `tty' and `tty-type'.)
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574
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575 -- Implement support for reading from multiple terminals.
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576
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577 (Done, read_avail_input tries to read from each terminal, until one
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578 succeeds. MULTI_KBOARD is not used. Secondary terminals don't send
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579 SIGIO!)
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580
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581 (Update: They do, now.)
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582
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583 (Update2: After enabling X, they don't.)
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584
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585 -- other-frame should cycle through the frames on the `current'
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586 terminal only.
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587
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588 (Done, by trivially modifiying next_frame and prev_frame.)
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589
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590 -- Support different terminal sizes.
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591
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592 (Done, no problem.)
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593
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594 -- Make sure terminal resizes are handled gracefully. (Could be
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595 problematic.)
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596
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597 (Done. We don't get automatic SIGWINCH for additional ttys,
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598 though.)
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599
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600 -- Extend emacsclient to automatically open a new tty when it connects
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601 to Emacs.
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602
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603 (Done. It's an ugly hack, needs more work.)
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604
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605 -- Redisplay must refresh the topmost frame on *all* terminals, not
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606 just the initial terminal.
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607
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608 (Done, but introduced an ugly redisplay problems. Ugh.)
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609
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610 -- Fix redisplay problems.
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611
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612 (Done; it turned out that the entire Wcm structure must be moved
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613 inside tty_output. Why didn't I catch this earlier?)
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614
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615 -- Provide a way for emacsclient to tell Emacs that the tty has been
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616 resized.
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617
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618 (Done, simply forward the SIGWINCH signal.)
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619
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620 -- Each keypress should automatically select the frame corresponding
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621 to the terminal that it was coming from. This means that Emacs
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622 must know from which terminal the last keyboard event came from.
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623
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624 (Done, it was quite simple, the input event system already
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625 supported multiple frames.)
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626
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627 -- Fix SIGIO issue with secondary terminals.
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629 (Done, emacsclient signals Emacs after writing to the proxy pseudo
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630 terminal. Note that this means that multi-tty does not work with
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631 raw ttys!)
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632
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633 (Update: This is bullshit. There is a read_input_waiting function,
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634 extend that somehow.)
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635
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636 (Update of update: The first update was not right either, extending
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637 read_input_waiting was not necessary. Secondary ttys do seem to
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638 send signals on input.)
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639
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640 (Update^3: Not any more.)
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641
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642 -- Make make-terminal-frame look up the `tty' and `tty-type' frame
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643 parameters from the currently selected terminal before the global
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644 default.
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645
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646 (Done.)
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647
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648 -- Put all cached terminal escape sequences into struct tty_output.
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649 Currently, they are still stored in global variables, so we don't
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650 really support multiple terminal types.
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651
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652 (Done. It was not fun.)
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654 -- Implement sane error handling after initialization. (Currently
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655 emacs exits if you specify a bad terminal type.) The helpful error
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656 messages must still be provided when Emacs starts.
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657
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658 (Done.)
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659
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660 -- Implement terminal deletion, i.e., deleting local frames, closing
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661 the tty device and restoring its previous state without exiting
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662 Emacs.
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663
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664 (Done, but at the moment only called when an error happens during
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666 somewhere.) (Update: now it is fully enabled.)
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667
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668 -- Implement automatic deletion of terminals when the last frame on
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669 that terminal is closed.
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670
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671 (Done.)
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672
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673 -- Restore tty screen after closing the terminal.
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674
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675 (Done, we do the same as Emacs 21.2 for all terminals.)
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676
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677 -- 'TERM=dumb src/emacs' does not restore the terminal state.
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678
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679 (Done.)
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680
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681 -- C-g should work on secondary terminals.
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682
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683 (Done, but the binding is not configurable.)
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684
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685 -- Deal with SIGHUP in Emacs and in emacsclient. (After this, the
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686 server-frames may be removed from server.el.)
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687
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688 (Done, nothing to do. It seems that Emacs does not receive SIGHUP
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689 from secondary ttys, which is actually a good thing.) (Update: I
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690 think it would be a bad idea to remove server-frames.)
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691
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692 -- Change emacsclient/server.el to support the -t argument better,
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693 i.e. automatically close the socket when the frame is closed.
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694
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695 (Seems to be working OK.)
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696
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697 -- Fix mysterious memory corruption error with tty deletion. To
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698 trigger it, try the following shell command:
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699
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700 while true; do TERM=no-such-terminal-definition emacsclient -h; done
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701
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702 Emacs usually dumps core after a few dozen iterations. (The bug
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703 seems to be related to the xfreeing or bzeroing of
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704 tty_output.Wcm. Maybe there are outside references to struct Wcm?
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705 Why were these vars collected into a struct before multi-tty
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706 support?)
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707
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708 (Done. Whew. It turned out that the problem had nothing to do
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709 with hypothetical external references to Wcm, or any other
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710 tty_output component; it was simply that delete_tty closed the
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711 filehandles of secondary ttys twice, resulting in fclose doubly
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712 freeing memory. Utterly trivial matter. I love the C's memory
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713 management, it puts hair on your chest.)
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714
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715 -- Support raw secondary terminals. (Note that SIGIO works only on
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716 the controlling terminal.) Hint: extend read_input_waiting for
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717 multiple ttys and hopefully this will be fixed.
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718
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719 (Done, it seems to have been working already for some time. It
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720 seems F_SETOWN does work, after all. Not sure what made it fail
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721 earlier, but it seems to be fixed (there were several changes
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722 around request_sigio, maybe one of them did it).
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723 read_input_waiting is only used in sys_select, don't change
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724 it.) (Update: After adding X support, it's broken again.)
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725 (Update^2: No it isn't.) :-)
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726
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727 -- Find out why does Emacs abort when it wants to close its
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728 controlling tty. Hint: chan_process[] array. Hey, maybe
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729 noninterrupt-IO would work, too? Update: no, there is no process
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730 for stdin/out.
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731
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732 (Done. Added add/delete_keyboard_wait_descriptor to
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733 term_init/delete_tty. The hint was right, in a way.)
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734
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735 -- Issue with SIGIO: it needs to be disabled during redisplay. See if
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c3309dba6542 American English spelling fix.
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736 fcntl kernel behavior could be emulated by emacsclient.
83776
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737
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738 (Done. Simply disabled the SIGIO emulation hack in emacsclient.)
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739 (Update: it was added back.) (Update^2: and removed again.)
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740
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741 -- server.el: There are issues with saving files in buffers of closed
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742 clients. Try editing a file with emacsclient -f, and (without
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743 saving it) do a delete-frame. The frame is closed without
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744 question, and a surprising confirmation prompt appears in another
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745 frame.
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746
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747 (Done. delete-frame now asks for confirmation if it still has
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748 pending buffers, and modified buffers don't seem to be deleted.)
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749
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750 -- emacsclient.el, server.el: Handle eval or file open errors when
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751 doing -t.
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752
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753 (Done.)
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754
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755 -- Make parts of struct tty_output accessible from Lisp. The device
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756 name and the type is sufficient.
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757
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758 (Done, see frame-tty-name and frame-tty-type.)
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759
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760 -- Export delete_tty to the Lisp environment, for emacsclient.
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761
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762 (Done, see delete-tty.)
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764 -- Get rid of the accessor macros in termchar.h, or define macros for
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765 all members.
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766
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767 (Done.)
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768
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769 -- Move device-specific parameters (like costs) commonly used by
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770 device backends to a common, device-dependent structure.
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772 (Done. See struct display_method in termhooks.h.)
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773
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774 -- Fix X support.
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775
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776 (Done. Well, it seems to be working.)
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778 -- Allow simultaneous X and tty frames. (Handling input could be
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779 tricky. Or maybe not.)
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780
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781 (Done. Allowed, that is. It is currently extremely unstable, to
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782 the point of being unusable. The rif variable causes constant
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783 core dumps. Handling input is indeed tricky.)
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784
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785 -- Rewrite multi-tty input in terms of MULTI_KBOARD.
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786
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787 (Done. In fact, there was no need to rewrite anything, I just
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788 added a kboard member to tty_display_info, and initialized the
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789 frame's kboard from there.)
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790
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791 -- Fix rif issue with X-tty combo sessions. IMHO the best thing to do
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792 is to get rid of that global variable (and use the value value in
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793 display_method, which is guaranteed to be correct).
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794
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795 (Done, did exactly that. Core dumps during combo sessions became
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796 much rarer. In fact, I have not yet met a single one.)
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798 -- Add multi-tty support to talk.el.
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799
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800 (Done.)
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801
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802 -- Clean up the source of emacsclient. It is a mess.
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803
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804 (Done, eliminated stupid proxy-pty kludge.)
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805
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806 -- Fix faces on tty frames during X-tty combo sessions. There is an
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807 init_frame_faces call in init_sys_modes, see if there is a problem
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808 with it.
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809
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810 (Done, there was a stupid mistake in
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811 Ftty_supports_face_attributes_p. Colors are broken, though.)
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812
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813 -- C-x 5 2, C-x 5 o, C-x 5 0 on an emacsclient frame unexpectedly
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814 exits emacsclient. This is a result of trying to be clever with
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815 delete-frame-functions.
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816
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817 (Fixed, added delete-tty-after-functions, and changed server.el to
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818 use it.)
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819
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820 -- Something with (maybe) multi-keyboard support broke function keys
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821 and arrows on ttys during X+tty combo sessions. Debug this.
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822
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823 (I can't reproduce it, maybe the terminal type was wrong.)
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824
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825 -- Fix input from raw ttys (again).
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826
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827 (Now it seems to work all right.)
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828
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829 -- During an X-tty combo session, a (message "Hello") from a tty frame
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830 goes to the X frame. Fix this.
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831
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832 (Done. There was a safeguard against writing to the initial
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833 terminal frame during bootstrap which prevented echo_area_display
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834 from working correctly on a tty frame during a combo session.)
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835
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836 -- If there are no frames on its controlling terminal, Emacs should
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837 exit if the user presses C-c there.
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838
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839 (Done, as far as possible. See the SIGTERM comment in
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840 interrupt_signal on why this seems to be impossible to solve this
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841 in general.)
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842
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843 -- During an X session, Emacs seems to read from stdin. Also, Emacs
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844 fails to start without a controlling tty.
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845
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846 (Fixed by replacing the troublesome termcap display with a dummy
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847 bootstrap display during bootstrap.
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848
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849 -- Do tty output through struct display, like graphical display
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850 backends.
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851
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852 (Done.)
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853
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854 -- Define an output_initial value for output_method for the initial
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855 frame that is dumped with Emacs. Checking for this frame (e.g. in
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856 cmd_error_internal) is ugly.
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857
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858 (Done, breaking interactive temacs.)
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859
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860 -- The command `emacsclient -t -e '(delete-frame)'' fails to exit.
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861
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862 (Fixed.)
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863
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864 -- frame-creation-function should always create a frame that is on the
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865 same display as the selected frame. Maybe frame-creation-function
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866 should simply be removed and make-frame changed to do the right
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867 thing.
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868
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869 (Done, with a nice hack. frame-creation-function is now frame-local.)
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870
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871 -- Fix C-g on raw ttys.
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872
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873 (Done. I disabled the interrupt/quit keys on all secondary
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874 terminals, so Emacs sees C-g as normal input. This looks like an
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875 overkill, because emacsclient has extra code to pass SIGINT to
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876 Emacs, so C-g should remain the interrupt/quit key on emacsclient
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877 frames. See the next entry why implementing this distinction would
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878 be a bad idea.)
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879
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880 -- Make sure C-g goes to the right frame with ttys. This is hard, as
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881 SIGINT doesn't have a tty parameter. :-(
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882
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883 (Done, the previous change fixes this as a pleasant side effect.)
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884
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885 -- I have seen a case when Emacs with multiple ttys fell into a loop
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886 eating 100% of CPU time. Strace showed this loop:
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887
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888 getpid() = 30284
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889 kill(30284, SIGIO) = 0
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890 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) @ 0 (0) ---
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891 ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [0]) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
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892 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
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893 ioctl(0, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
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894 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
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895 gettimeofday({1072842297, 747760}, NULL) = 0
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896 gettimeofday({1072842297, 747806}, NULL) = 0
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897 select(9, [0 3 5 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [5 6], left {0, 0})
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898 select(9, [0 3 5 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [5 6], left {0, 0})
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899 gettimeofday({1072842297, 748245}, NULL) = 0
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900
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901 I have seen something similar with a single X frame, but have not
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902 been able to reproduce it for debugging.
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903
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904 Update: This may have been caused by checking for nread != 0
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905 instead of nread > 0 after calling read_socket_hook in
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906 read_avail_input.
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907
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908 (Fixed. This was caused by unconditionally including stdin in
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909 input_wait_mask in init_process. The select call in
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910 wait_reading_process_input always returned immediately, indicating
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911 that there is pending input from stdin, which nobody read.
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912
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913 Note that the above strace output seems to be an unrelated but
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914 similar bug. I think that is now fixed.)
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915
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916 -- Exiting Emacs while there are emacsclient frames doesn't restore the
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917 ttys to their default states.
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918
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919 (This seems to be fixed by some previous change.)
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921 -- Allow opening an X session after -nw.
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922
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923 (Done.)
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924
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925 -- Fix color handling during tty+X combo sessions. (It seems that tty
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926 sessions automatically convert the face colors to terminal colors
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927 when the face is loaded. This conversion must happen instead on
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928 the fly in write_glyphs, which might be problematic, as color
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929 approximation is currently done in lisp (term/tty-colors.el).)
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930 (Update: hm, colors seem to work fine if I start emacs with -nw and
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931 then create an X frame. Maybe it's just a small buglet somewhere.)
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932
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933 (Seems to be fixed. The problem was in startup.el, it did not
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934 initialize tty colors when the initial window system was
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935 graphical.)
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936
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937 -- emacs -nw --eval '(y-or-n-p "Foobar")' segfaults. (Reported by
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938 Romain Francoise)
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939
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940 (Fixed, there was a keyboard initialization problem.)
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941
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942 -- Fix interactive use of temacs. There are face-related SEGVs, most
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943 likely because of changes in realize_default_face, realize_face.
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944
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945 (Fixed.)
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946
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947 -- Don't exit Emacs when the last X connection fails during a
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948 multi-display session.
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949
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950 (Fixed.)
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951
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952 -- Dan Nicolaescu noticed that starting emacsclient on the same
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953 terminal device that is the controlling tty of the Emacs process
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954 gives unexpected results.
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955
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956 (Fixed.)
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957
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958 -- Istvan Marko reported that Emacs hang on ttys if it was started
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959 from a shell script.
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960
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961 (Fixed. There was a bug in the multi-tty version of
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962 narrow_foreground_group. tcsetpgrp blocks if it is called from a
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963 process that is not in the same process group as the tty.)
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964
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965 -- emacsclient -t from an Emacs term buffer does not work, complains
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966 about face problems. This can even lock up Emacs (if the recursive
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967 frame sets single_kboard). Update: the face problems are caused by
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968 bugs in term.el, not in multi-tty. The lockup is caused by
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969 single_kboard mode, and is not easily resolvable. The best thing to
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970 do is to simply refuse to create a tty frame of type `eterm'.
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971
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972 (Fixed, changed emacsclient to check for TERM=eterm. The face
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973 complaints seem to be caused by bugs in term.el; they are not
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974 related to multi-tty.)
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975
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976 -- Find out the best way to support suspending Emacs with multiple
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977 ttys. My guess: disable it on the controlling tty, but from other
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978 ttys pass it on to emacsclient somehow. (It is (I hope) trivial to
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979 extend emacsclient to handle suspend/resume. A `kill -STOP' almost
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980 works right now.)
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981
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982 (Done. I needed to play with signal handling and the server
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983 protocol a bit to make emacsclient behave as a normal UNIX program
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984 wrt foreground/background process groups.)
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985
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986 -- There is a flicker during the startup of `emacs -nw'; it's as if
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987 the terminal is initialized, reset and then initialialized again.
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988 Debug this. (Hint: narrow_foreground_group is called twice during
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989 startup.)
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990
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991 (This is gone.)
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992
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993 -- Robert Chassell has found serious copy-paste bugs with the
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994 multi-tty branch. There seem to be redisplay bugs while copying
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995 from X to a terminal frame. Copying accented characters do not
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996 work for me.
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997
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998 (Patch-124 should fix this, by changing the interprogram-*-function
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999 variables to be frame-local, as suggested by Mark Plaksin
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1000 (thanks!). I think that the redisplay bugs are in fact not bugs,
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1001 but delays caused by single_kboard --> perhaps MULTI_KBOARD should
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1002 be removed.)
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1003
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1004 -- frame-creation-function was removed, which might be a bad idea.
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1005 Think up a compatible solution.
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1006
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1007 (It was an internal interface that may be changed when necessary.)
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1008
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1009 -- Change Lisp code not to (getenv "TERM"); use the `tty-type' frame
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1010 parameter or the frame-tty-type function instead. (M-x tags-search
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1011 "TERM" helps with this.) Update: Actually, all getenv invocations
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1012 should be checked for multi-tty compatibility, and an interface
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1013 must be implemented to get the remote client's environment.
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1014
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1015 (Done. Only getenv calls in lisp/term/*.el were changed; other
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1016 calls should be mostly left as they are.)
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1017
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1018 -- Add an elaborate mechanism for display-local variables. (There are
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1019 already a few of these; search for `terminal-local' in the Elisp
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1020 manual.)
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1021
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1022 (Not needed. Display-local variables could be emulated by
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1023 frame-local variables.)
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1024
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1025 -- Emacs assumes that all terminal frames have the same locale
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1026 settings as Emacs itself. This may lead to bogus results in a
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1027 multi-locale setup. (E.g., while logging in from a remote client
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1028 with a different locale.)
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1029 (Update after new bugreport by Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs:
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1030 (at least) the structs terminal_coding and keyboard_coding in
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1031 coding.c must be moved to struct display, and the Lisp interface
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1032 [set-]keyboard-coding-system must be adapted for the change.)
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1033
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1034 (Fixed. Emacs now uses the locale settings as seen by the
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1035 emacsclient process for server tty frames.)
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1036 (Update: Not really; Vlocale_coding_system is still global.)
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1037
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1038 -- Make `struct display' accessible to Lisp programs. Accessor functions:
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1039
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1040 (displayp OBJECT): Returns t if OBJECT is a display.
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1041 => Implemented as display-live-p.
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1042
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1043 (display-list): Returns list of currently active displays.
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1044 => Implemented.
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1045
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1046 (selected-display): Returns the display object of the selected frame.
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1047 => Not strictly necessary, but implemented anyway.
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1048
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1049 (frame-display FRAME): Returns the display object of FRAME.
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1050 => Implemented.
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1051
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1052 (display-frames DISPLAY): Returns a list of frames on DISPLAY.
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1053 => Already implemented, see frames-on-display-list.
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1054
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1055 (display-type DISPLAY): Returns the type of DISPLAY, as a
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1056 symbol. (See `framep'.)
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1057 => Implemented as display-live-p.
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1058
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1059 (display-device DISPLAY): Returns the name of the device that
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1060 DISPLAY uses, as a string. (E.g: "/dev/pts/16", or
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1061 ":0.0")
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1062 => Implemented as display-name.
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1064 etc.
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1065
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1066 See next issue why this is necessary.
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1067
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1068 (Update: The consensus on emacs-devel seems to be to do this via
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1069 integer identifiers. That's fine by me.)
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1070
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1071 (Done.)
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1072
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1073 -- The following needs to be supported:
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1074
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1075 $ emacsclient -t
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1076 C-z
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1077 $ emacsclient -t
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1078 (This fails now.)
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1079
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1080 The cleanest way to solve this is to allow multiple displays on the
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1081 same terminal device; each new emacsclient process should create
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1082 its own display. As displays are currently identified by their
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1083 device names, this is not possible until struct display becomes
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1084 accessible as a Lisp-level object.
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1085
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1086 (Done.)
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1087
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1088 -- Miles Bader suggests that C-x C-c on an emacsclient frame should
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1089 only close the frame, not exit the entire Emacs session. Update:
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1090 see above for a function that does this. Maybe this should be the
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1091 new default?
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1092
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1093 (Done. This is the new default. No complaints so far.)
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1094
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1095 -- Clean up the frame-local variable system. I think it's ugly and
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1096 error-prone. But maybe I just haven't yet fully understood it.
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1097
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1098 (Nothing to do. It doesn't seem ugly any more. It's rather clever.)
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1099
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1100 -- Support multiple character locales. A version of
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1101 `set-locale-environment' needs to be written for setting up
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1102 display-local settings on ttys. I think calling
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1103 set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system and
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1104 set-keyboard-coding-system would be enough. The language
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1105 environment itself should remain a global setting.
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1106
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1107 (Done, by an ugly hack.)
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1108
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1109 -- The terminal customization files in term/*.el tend to change global
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1110 parameters, which may confuse Emacs with multiple displays. Change
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1111 them to tweak only frame-local settings, if possible. (They tend
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1112 to call define-key to set function key sequences a lot.)
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1113
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1114 (Done, by making `function-key-map' terminal-local (i.e., part of
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1115 struct kboard). This has probably covered all the remaining problems.)
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1116
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1117 -- Make `function-key-map' and `key-translation-map' terminal-local.
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1118
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1119 (Done.)
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1120
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1121 -- Implement `terminal-local-value' and `set-terminal-local-value' to
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1122 allow deterministic access to terminal local bindings. The
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1123 encode-kb package can not set up `key-translation-map' without
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1124 these. The terminal-local bindings seem to be independent of what
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1125 frame is selected.
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1126
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1127 (Done.)
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1128
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1129 -- xt-mouse.el needs to be adapted for multi-tty. It currently
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1130 signals an error on kill-emacs under X, which prevents the user
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1131 from exiting Emacs. (Reported by Mnemonikk on freenode.)
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1132
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1133 (Done, I hope.)
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1134
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1135
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1136 -- Having {reset,init}_all_sys_modes in set-input-mode breaks arrow
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1137 keys on non-selected terminals under screen, and sometimes on other
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1138 terminal types as well. The other function keys continue to work
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1139 fine. Sometimes faces on these screens become garbled.
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1140
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1141 This only seems to affect displays that are of the same terminfo
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1142 type as the selected one. Interestingly, in screen Emacs normally
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1143 reports the up arrow key as `M-o A', but after the above SNAFU, it
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1144 complains about `M-[ a'. UNIX ttys are a complete mystery to me,
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1145 but it seems the reset-reinitialize cycle somehow leaves the
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1146 non-selected terminals in a different state than usual. I have no
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1147 idea how this could happen.
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1148
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1149 Currently set-input-mode resets only the currently selected
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1150 terminal, which seems to somehow work around the problem.
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1151
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1152 Update:
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1153
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1154 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
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1155 > Some terminals have 2 modes for cursor keys: Application Mode where
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1156 > the cursor keys transmit the codes defined in the terminfo entry, and
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1157 > Cursor mode. Applications have to send the smkx and rmkx terminfo
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1158 > strings to switch between the 2 modes. So Emacs (and emacsclient) have
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1159 > to send smkx when initializing and rmkx when quitting (or on
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1160 > suspend).
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1161
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1162 (I think patch-370 fixed this.)
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1163
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1164 -- This long-standing bug (first reported by Han Boetes) seems to come
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1165 and go all the time. It is time to track it down and fix it.
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1166
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1167 emacs
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1168 M-x server-start
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1169
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1170 # From another xterm:
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1171 emacsclient -e '(y-or-n-p "Do you want me to crash? ")'
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1172 # Notice how the answer ends up in the *scratch* buffer
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1173 M-x garbage-collect
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1174 SIGSEGV
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1175
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1176 (Fixed in patch-414 after detailed analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
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1178 -- normal-erase-is-backspace-mode in simple.el needs to be updated for
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1179 multi-tty (rep. by Dan Waber). (The Delete key is broken on X
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1180 because of this.)
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1181
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1182 (Fixed in patch-427.)
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1183
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1184 -- I think keyboard-translate-table should be made terminal-local.
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1185
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1186 (Done in patch-431.)
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1187
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1188 -- The semantics of terminal-local variables are confusing; it is not
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1189 clear what binding is in effect in any given time. See if
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1190 current_kboard (or at least the terminal-local bindings exported to
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1191 Lisp) might be changed to be tied to the selected frame instead.
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1192 Currently, `function-key-map' and `key-translation-map' may be
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1193 accessed reliably only using the hackish
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1194 `(set-)terminal-local-value' functions.
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1195
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1197 and these more conventional configuration variables.
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1198 (E.g. `symbol-value' would use current_kboard to access
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1199 `last-command', but SELECTED_FRAME()->display->kboard to get the
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1200 value of `function-key-map'.
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1201
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1202 (Fixed in patch-434.)
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1203
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1204 -- If the first key pressed on a new tty terminal is a function key,
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1205 it is not recognized correctly. May be related to the bug below.
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1206
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1207 (Seems to have been fixed as a side effect of patch-434. "The bug
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1208 below" was the set-input-mode madness.)
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1209
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1210 (Update: this bug was fixed for good in patch-449. It was tracked
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1211 down to a bug in `read_key_sequence': it failed to reinitialize its
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1212 local function-key-map/key-translation-map references when it
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1213 switched keyboards. I don't understand why did this bug only
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1214 appear on brand new frames, though!)
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1215
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1216 -- Disable connecting to a new X display when we use the GTK toolkit.
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1217
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1218 (Disabled in patch-450.)
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1219
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1220 -- Implement automatic forwarding of client environment variables to
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1221 forked processes, as discussed on the multi-tty list. Terminal
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1222 parameters are now accessible in C code, so the biggest obstacle is
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1223 gone. The `getenv_internal' and `child_setup' functions in
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1224 callproc.c must be changed to support the following variable:
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1225
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1226 terminal-local-environment-variables is a variable defined in ...
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1227
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1228 Enable or disable terminal-local environment variables.
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1229
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1230 If set to t, `getenv', `setenv' and subprocess creation
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1231 functions use the environment variables of the emacsclient
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1232 process that created the selected frame, ignoring
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1233 `process-environment'.
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1234
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1235 If set to nil, Emacs uses `process-environment' and ignores
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1236 the client environment.
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1237
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1238 Otherwise, `terminal-local-environment-variables' should be a
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1239 list of variable names (represented by Lisp strings) to look
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1240 up in the client environment. The rest will come from
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1241 `process-environment'.
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1242
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1243 (Implemented in patch-461; `terminal-getenv', `terminal-setenv' and
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1244 `with-terminal-environment' are now replaced by extensions to
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1245 `getenv' and `setenv', and the new `local-environment-variables'
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1246 facility. Yay!)
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1247
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1248 (Updated in patch-465 to fix the semantics of let-binding
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1249 `process-environment'. `process-environment' was changed to
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1250 override all local/global environment variables, and a new variable
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1251 `global-environment' was introduced to have `process-environment's
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1252 old meaning.)
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1253
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1254 (Updated in patch-466 to fix the case when two emacsclient sessions
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1255 share the same terminal, but have different environment. The local
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1256 environment lists are now stored as frame parameters, so the
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1257 C-level terminal parameters are not strictly necessary any more.)
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1258
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1259 -- `Fdelete_frame' is called from various critical places where it is
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1260 not acceptable for the frame deletion to fail, e.g. from
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1261 x_connection_closed after an X error. `Fdelete_frame' now protects
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1262 against `delete-frame-functions' throwing an error and preventing a
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1263 frame delete. (patch-475)
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1264
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1265 -- Fix set-input-mode for multi-tty. It's a truly horrible interface;
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1266 what if we'd blow it up into several separate functions (with a
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1267 compatibility definition)?
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1268
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1269 (Done. See `set-input-interrupt-mode', `set-output-flow-control',
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1270 `set-input-meta-mode' and `set-quit-char'.) (patch-457)
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1271
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1272 -- Let-binding `overriding-terminal-local-map' on a brand new frame
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1273 does not seem to work correctly. (See `fancy-splash-screens'.)
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1274 The keymap seems to be set up right, but events go to another
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1275 terminal. Or is it `unread-command-events' that gets Emacs
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1276 confused? Investigate.
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1277
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1278 (Emacs was confused because a process filter entered
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1279 `recursive-edit' while Emacs was reading input. I added support
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1280 for this in the input system.) (patch-489)
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1281
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1282 -- I smell something funny around pop_kboard's "deleted kboard" case.
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1283 Determine what are the circumstances of this case, and fix any
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1284 bug that comes to light.
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1285
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1286 (It happens simply because single_kboard's terminal is sometimes
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1287 deleted while executing a command on it, for example the one that
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1288 kills the terminal. There was no bug here, but I rewrote the whole
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1289 single_kboard mess anyway.) (patch-489)
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1290
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1291 -- Understand Emacs's low-level input system (it's black magic) :-)
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1292 What exactly does interrupt_input do? I tried to disable it for
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1293 raw secondary tty support, but it does not seem to do anything
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1294 useful. (Update: Look again. X unconditionally enables this, maybe
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1295 that's why raw terminal support is broken again. I really do need
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1296 to understand input.)
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1297 (Update: I am starting to understand the read_key_sequence->read-char
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1298 ->kbd_buffer_get_event->read_avail_input->read_socket_hook path. Yay!)
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1299
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1300 (Update: OK, it all seems so easy now (NOT). Input could be done
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1301 synchronously (with wait_reading_process_input), or asynchronously
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1302 by SIGIO or polling (SIGALRM). C-g either sets the Vquit_flag,
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1303 signals a 'quit condition (when immediate_quit), or throws to
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1304 `getcjmp' when Emacs was waiting for input when the C-g event
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1305 arrived.)
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1306
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1307 -- Replace wrong_kboard_jmpbuf with a special return value of
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1308 read_char. It is absurd that we use setjmp/longjmp just to return
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1309 to the immediate caller.
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1310
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1311 (Done in patch-500.)
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1312
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1313 -- `tool-bar-mode', `scroll-bar-mode', `menu-bar-mode' and
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1314 'fringe-mode' are modes global to the entire Emacs session, not
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1315 just a single frame or a single terminal. This means that their
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1316 status sometimes differs from what's actually displayed on the
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1317 screen. As a consequence, the Options | Show/Hide menu sometimes
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1318 shows incorrect status, and you have to select an option twice for
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1319 it to have any visible effect on the current frame.
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1320
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1321 Change Emacs so that the status of the items in the Options |
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1322 Show/Hide menu correspond to the current frame.
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1323
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1324 (Done in patch-537.)
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1325
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1326 -- The `default-directory' variable should somehow be set to the
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1327 cwd of the emacsclient process when the user runs emacsclient
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1328 without file arguments. Perhaps it is OK to just override the
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1329 directory of the *scratch* buffer.
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1331 (Done in patch-539.)
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1333 -- The borders on tooltip frames on X are messed up. More
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1334 specifically, the frame's internal border (internal-border-width
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1335 frame parameter) is not filled with the correct background color.
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1337 It seems the border contents are drawn onto by the
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1338 update_single_window call in `x-show-tip'. After some debugging, I
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1339 think the window's background color is not set up
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1340 correctly---calling `x_clear_area' fills the specified area with
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1341 black, not light yellow.
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1342
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1343 (Done in patch-544. A background_pixel field was defined both in
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1344 struct frame and struct x_output, and Emacs got confused between
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1345 them.)
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1348 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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1349
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1350 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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1351 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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1352 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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1353 (at your option) any later version.
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1355 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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1356 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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1357 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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1358 GNU General Public License for more details.
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1360 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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