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25853 | 1 This file describes various problems that have been encountered |
2 in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. | |
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4 * Segfault on GNU/Linux using certain recent versions of the Linux kernel. |
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6 With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core |
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7 1), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which |
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8 creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper. |
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10 You can check the Exec-shield state like this: |
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12 cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield |
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14 It returns 1 or 2 when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please |
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15 read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and |
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16 associated commands. |
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18 When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the |
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19 execution of this command: |
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21 temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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23 To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable |
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24 Exec-shield while building Emacs, using the `setarch' command like |
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25 this: |
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27 setarch i386 ./configure <configure parameters> |
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28 setarch i386 make <make parameters> |
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30 * Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. |
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34 with a newer version. Emacs compiled with --with-gtk will then use |
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35 the newer version. In most cases the problem can be temporarily |
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36 fixed by stopping the application that has the error (it can be |
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37 Emacs or any other application), removing ~/.fonts.cache-1, |
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38 and then start the application again. |
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39 If removing ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restarting doesn't help, the |
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40 application with problem must be recompiled with the same version |
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41 of FontConfig as the rest of the system uses. For KDE, it is |
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46 There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the |
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47 Mac OS X that causes process output to be truncated. To avoid this, |
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50 * Emacs crashes on Mac OS X (Carbon) after system software upgrade. |
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52 This problem seems to be now solved by Steven Tamm's patch to |
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55 Between Mac OS X release 10.2.1 and 10.2.2 there was an incompatible |
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56 change in the memory allocator that causes a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error near |
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57 xrealloc(). Relinking the application (by deleting src/temacs and |
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58 running make) will solve the problem. It appears to be caused by some |
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59 problems with the unexec code and its interaction with libSystem.B. |
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61 * Emacs crashes with SIGSEGV in XtInitializeWidgetClass |
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66 the -z nocombreloc flag. Emacs normally knows to pass the -z nocombreloc |
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47994 | 73 * Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X. |
74 | |
75 XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have | |
51316 | 76 minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding part of the font |
77 name is meant to be a reasonable indication of the repertoire | |
78 according to the XLFD spec). Emacs may choose one of these to display | |
79 characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then typically won't be | |
80 able to find the glyphs to display many characters. (Check with C-u | |
81 C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset which sets the | |
82 font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use GNU unifont, | |
83 include in the fontset spec: | |
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85 mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
86 mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
87 mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1 | |
88 | |
51316 | 89 * The UTF-8/16/7 coding systems don't encode CJK (Far Eastern) characters. |
90 | |
91 Emacs by default only supports the parts of the Unicode BMP whose code | |
92 points are in the ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff. This excludes: most | |
93 of CJK, Yi and Hangul, as well as everything outside the BMP. | |
94 | |
95 If you read UTF-8 data with code points outside these ranges, the | |
96 characters appear in the buffer as raw bytes of the original UTF-8 | |
97 (composed into a single quasi-character) and they will be written back | |
98 correctly as UTF-8, assuming you don't break the composed sequences. | |
99 If you read such characters from UTF-16 or UTF-7 data, they are | |
100 substituted with the Unicode `replacement character', and you lose | |
101 information. | |
102 | |
103 To edit such UTF data, turn on Utf-Translate-Cjk mode, which makes | |
104 many common CJK characters available for encoding and decoding and can | |
105 be extended by updating the tables it uses. This also allows you to | |
106 save as UTF buffers containing characters decoded by the chinese-, | |
107 japanese- and korean- coding systems, e.g. cut and pasted from | |
108 elsewhere. | |
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110 * Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif. |
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112 When Emacs 21 is built with Open Motif 2.1, it can happen that the |
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113 graphical file dialog boxes do not work properly. The "OK", "Filter" |
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114 and "Cancel" buttons do not respond to mouse clicks. Dragging the |
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130 | |
131 Changes to Emacs internals interact badly with Mule-UCS's `un-define' | |
132 library, which is the usual interface to Mule-UCS. Apply the | |
133 following patch to Mule-UCS 0.84 and rebuild it. That will help, | |
134 though loading will still be slower than in Emacs 20. (Some | |
135 distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.) | |
136 | |
137 --- lisp/un-define.el 6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000 1.30 | |
138 +++ lisp/un-define.el 19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000 | |
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46677 | 141 (mapcar |
142 (lambda (x) | |
143 - (mapcar | |
144 - (lambda (y) | |
145 - (mucs-define-coding-system | |
146 - (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
147 - (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y)) | |
148 - (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x)))) | |
149 - (cdr x))) | |
150 + (if (fboundp 'register-char-codings) | |
151 + ;; Mule 5, where we don't need the eol-type specified and | |
152 + ;; register-char-codings may be very slow for these coding | |
153 + ;; system definitions. | |
154 + (let ((y (cadr x))) | |
155 + (mucs-define-coding-system | |
156 + (car x) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
157 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y))) | |
158 + (mapcar | |
159 + (lambda (y) | |
160 + (mucs-define-coding-system | |
161 + (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
162 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y)) | |
163 + (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x))))) | |
164 + (cdr x))) | |
165 `((utf-8 | |
166 (utf-8-unix | |
167 ?u "UTF-8 coding system" | |
168 | |
169 Note that Emacs has native support for Unicode, roughly equivalent to | |
170 Mule-UCS's, so you may not need it. | |
171 | |
39467 | 172 * Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory. |
173 | |
174 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one | |
175 of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released | |
176 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those | |
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185 `-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically |
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186 when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some |
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187 unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional', |
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188 run the script like this: |
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192 (replace the ellipsis "..." with any additional arguments you pass to |
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199 undefined symbol such as __eprintf which does not appear in Emacs. |
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204 from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system |
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205 compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the |
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208 A solution is to link with GCC, like this: |
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235 Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary |
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236 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code |
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237 '0xffffffff' |
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238 Stop. |
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240 This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program |
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241 which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The |
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242 `*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line |
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246 The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not |
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247 change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has |
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252 * Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux. |
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254 The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical |
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255 C backtrace printed by GDB: |
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257 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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258 (gdb) where |
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259 #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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260 #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray () |
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261 #2 0x18b3500 in main () |
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262 #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc, |
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264 This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base |
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265 of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this, |
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266 but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks |
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267 other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to |
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269 GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the |
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276 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to |
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278 #if defined __linux__ |
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279 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95) |
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282 #endif |
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283 #endif /* 0 */ |
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285 Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save |
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330 the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect | |
331 the use of Emacs' own input methods, which are part of the Leim | |
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343 of the X protocol. lbxproxy acheives the performance gain by grouping |
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345 instead of requiring a round-trip for each X request in a seperate |
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346 packet. The switches that seem to work best for emacs are: |
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347 -noatomsfile -nowinattr -cheaterrors -cheatevents |
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354 By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on |
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355 FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the |
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360 Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the |
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361 definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows'' |
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406 type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION |
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407 property. |
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410 click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This | |
411 is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the | |
412 problem disappears. | |
413 | |
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414 * There are known binary incompatibilities between Xaw, Xaw3d, neXtaw, |
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415 XawM and the few other derivatives of Xaw. So when you compile with |
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416 one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one. |
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417 For example, strange problems, such as Emacs exiting when you type |
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418 "C-x 1", were reported when Emacs compiled with Xaw3d and libXaw was |
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419 used with neXtaw at run time. |
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421 The solution is to rebuild Emacs with the toolkit version you actually |
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422 want to use, or set LD_PRELOAD to preload the same toolkit version you |
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423 built Emacs with. |
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425 * Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window. |
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427 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know |
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428 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured |
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429 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work. |
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431 * Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'. |
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432 |
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433 This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the |
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434 terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo. |
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435 If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your |
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436 version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses |
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437 and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this. |
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439 All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the |
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440 problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses |
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441 terminfo when built. |
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443 * Error messages about undefined colors on X. |
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445 The messages might say something like this: |
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447 Unable to load color "grey95" |
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449 (typically, in the `*Messages*' buffer), or something like this: |
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451 Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow) |
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453 These problems could happen if some other X program has used up too |
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454 many colors of the X palette, leaving Emacs with insufficient system |
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455 resources to load all the colors it needs. |
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457 A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs. |
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459 * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm. |
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36813 | 461 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal |
462 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database | |
463 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the | |
464 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are | |
465 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within | |
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466 Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system |
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467 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is |
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468 "colors". |
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470 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for |
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471 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal |
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472 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not |
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473 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry |
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474 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape |
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475 sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make |
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476 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op" |
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477 capability). |
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479 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which |
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480 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability |
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481 incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting |
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482 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps. |
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484 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value | |
485 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal | |
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36813 | 487 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible |
488 emulator. | |
489 | |
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490 Beginning with version 21.4, Emacs supports the --color command-line |
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491 option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular |
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492 modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up |
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493 for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors. |
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494 |
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496 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on | |
497 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The | |
498 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x | |
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499 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable |
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500 `global-font-lock-mode'. |
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502 * Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block. |
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504 This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use |
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505 ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well. |
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506 These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where |
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507 the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c" |
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508 (show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a |
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509 blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character |
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510 cell. This blinking cannot be stopped, since a hardware cursor |
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511 always blinks. |
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513 A work-around is to redefine the "cvvis" capability so that it |
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514 enables a *software* cursor. The software cursor works by inverting |
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515 the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block |
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516 cursor that doesn't blink. For this to work, you need to redefine |
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517 the "cnorm" capability as well, so that it operates on the software |
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518 cursor instead of the hardware cursor. |
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520 To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file |
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521 `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send |
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522 the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to |
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523 produce a modified terminfo entry. |
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525 Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor, |
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526 change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command. |
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528 * Problems in Emacs built with LessTif. |
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530 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif |
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531 emulation for which it is set up. |
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534 Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD. | |
535 On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure | |
536 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most | |
537 successful. The binary GNU/Linux package | |
538 lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with | |
539 menu placement. | |
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541 On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally |
36813 | 542 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know |
543 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs | |
544 developers. | |
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548 Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu |
44929 | 549 is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not |
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550 displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is |
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551 synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while |
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552 waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or |
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553 pop-up menu interaction. |
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44929 | 555 Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text |
556 for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows. | |
557 | |
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558 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the |
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559 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first |
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560 frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame |
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561 after moving back into it. |
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563 Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although |
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564 not as severely as in 21.1. |
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566 Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null |
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567 characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer. |
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569 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows |
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570 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed. |
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572 Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2). Some |
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573 of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded |
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574 in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1 |
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575 characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make this |
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576 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after |
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577 you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate |
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578 the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs |
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579 ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the |
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580 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that |
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581 yet.) |
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583 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated |
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584 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions |
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585 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system |
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586 library function. |
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588 * The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library. |
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590 There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker |
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591 by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by |
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592 default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'. |
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594 If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the |
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595 `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a |
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596 shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun |
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597 the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library. |
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598 Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file |
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599 explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG. |
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601 * Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. |
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603 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system |
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604 (RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris |
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605 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that |
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606 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the |
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607 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is |
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608 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping |
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609 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped |
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610 Emacs executable to fail with the above message. |
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36451 | 612 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the |
613 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make | |
614 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future). | |
615 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems. | |
616 | |
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617 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05 |
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618 (Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if |
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619 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can |
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620 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the |
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621 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB |
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622 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the |
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623 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount |
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624 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as |
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625 `/etc/auto.home'. |
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627 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for |
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628 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case, |
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629 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed |
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630 to work around the problem. |
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632 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory |
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633 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and |
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634 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the |
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635 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble: |
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637 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted... |
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639 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. |
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641 * Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run. |
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643 This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted |
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645 Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of |
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646 binary null characters, and the `file' utility says: |
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648 emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators |
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650 We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to |
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651 build Emacs in a directory on a local disk. |
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655 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with |
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660 fonts have this bug in some versions of X. |
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46677 | 678 Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur |
679 if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an | |
680 older version. | |
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736 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the |
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738 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the |
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739 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports |
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740 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.) |
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745 time. Possible reasons for this include: |
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754 To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable |
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756 invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or |
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757 (c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase. |
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764 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses |
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766 confuses ange-ftp. |
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768 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL |
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771 directory. To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the |
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780 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "") |
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46677 | 782 * Versions of the W3 package released before Emacs 21.1 don't run |
783 under Emacs 21. This fixed in W3 version 4.0pre.47. | |
35152 | 784 |
34494 | 785 * On AIX, if linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you |
786 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If | |
787 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure | |
788 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'. | |
789 | |
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42229 | 791 |
42233 | 792 This could happen if you use /bin/c89 as your compiler, instead of |
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793 the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign |
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794 redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution |
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797 * Old versions of the PSGML package use the obsolete variables |
34387 | 798 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no |
42667 | 799 longer used by Emacs. Please use PSGML 1.2.3 or later. |
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803 PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like keymap) |
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805 of that package. The conflict will be shown if you load |
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806 sgml-mode.el before psgml.el. E.g. this could happen if you edit |
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807 HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML file. html-mode |
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811 * The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2. |
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812 |
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813 It can fail to work with ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 1. |
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814 Version 1 of OpenLDAP is now deprecated. If you are still using it, |
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815 please upgrade to version 2. As a temporary workaround, remove |
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816 argument "-x" from the variable `ldap-ldapsearch-args'. |
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818 * The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21. |
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819 |
36813 | 820 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free |
51132 | 821 slots now. The current built-in Unicode support is actually more |
822 flexible. (Use option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' if you need CJK | |
823 support.) Files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode aren't | |
824 generally read correctly by Emacs 21. | |
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825 |
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826 * Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error. |
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828 The error message might be something like this: |
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829 |
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830 "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" |
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831 |
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832 This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a |
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833 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch |
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834 for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3 |
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835 corrects that. |
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837 * ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps. |
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839 This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it |
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840 defines compatibility functions which trick ps-print into thinking it |
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841 runs in XEmacs, and look for the prologue files in a wrong directory. |
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843 The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version. |
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845 * lpr commands don't work on MS-Windows with some cheap printers. |
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847 This problem may also strike other platforms, but the solution is |
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848 likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific. |
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850 Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not |
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851 print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical |
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852 printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic |
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853 built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it |
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854 has): |
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856 (setq printer-name "") ;; notepad takes the default |
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857 (setq lpr-command "notepad") ;; notepad |
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858 (setq lpr-switches nil) ;; not needed |
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859 (setq lpr-printer-switch "/P") ;; run notepad as batch printer |
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33964 | 861 * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors |
862 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some | |
863 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support. | |
864 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared | |
865 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker. | |
866 | |
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867 Similar problems could prevent Emacs from building, since the build |
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868 process invokes Emacs several times. |
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33964 | 870 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your |
871 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries | |
872 can be found. | |
873 | |
874 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before | |
875 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a | |
876 specified run-time search path in the executable. | |
877 | |
42913 | 878 On some systems, Emacs can crash due to problems with dynamic |
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879 linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with |
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880 backtraces like this: |
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882 (dbx) where |
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890 4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) |
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42913 | 893 (`rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know yet why this |
894 happens, but setting the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to 1 (which | |
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33964 | 898 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details. |
899 | |
33788 | 900 * On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 |
34001 | 901 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to |
902 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C | |
903 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on | |
904 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler | |
905 and the default CFLAGS. | |
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909 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the |
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912 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11 |
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914 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD, |
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915 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3 |
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916 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example: |
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917 |
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918 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from) |
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919 { |
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920 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from)); |
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921 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/ |
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923 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c |
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924 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward. |
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926 * Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts. |
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927 |
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928 A typical error message might be something like |
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929 |
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930 No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' |
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931 |
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932 This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for |
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933 Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be |
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934 are: |
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936 - in your ~/.Xdefaults file |
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938 - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or |
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939 /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or |
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940 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs |
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942 One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a |
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943 fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find |
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944 the problematic line(s) and correct them. |
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946 * Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup. |
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948 The typical error message might be like this: |
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950 "Cannot open load file: fontset" |
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952 This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file |
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953 tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp |
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954 files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the |
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955 Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later, |
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956 when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is |
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957 required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and |
44152 | 958 it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.) |
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960 Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc |
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961 file could fail to load if it is compressed. |
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962 |
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963 The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc |
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964 file. |
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966 Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files |
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967 lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will |
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968 print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path: |
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970 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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971 |
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972 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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973 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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974 load-path. |
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976 * Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version. |
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978 An example of such an error is: |
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980 x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" |
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983 The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are |
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984 present in load-path: |
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986 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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988 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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989 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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990 load-path. |
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992 * Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. |
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994 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not |
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995 representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the |
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996 ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel |
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997 version 2.4.3, with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other |
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998 systems as well. To avoid this problem, switch to using the standard |
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999 ftp client. On a Debian system, type |
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1001 update-alternatives --config ftp |
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1003 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp. |
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1008 work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET" |
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1009 was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't |
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1010 work when an antivirus package is installed. |
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1012 The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive |
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1013 mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall |
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1014 or disable it entirely. |
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1018 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems |
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1019 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited |
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1020 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at |
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1021 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/. |
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1026 Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In |
42792 | 1027 particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java |
42854 | 1028 program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system |
42792 | 1029 PATH. |
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1031 * Pressing the mouse button on MS-Windows does not give a mouse-2 event. |
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1033 This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows |
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1034 programs do not do anything useful with the middle mouse button, many |
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1035 mouse drivers allow you to define the wheel press to do something |
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1036 different. Some drivers do not even have the option to generate a |
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1037 middle button press. In such cases, setting the wheel press to |
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1039 generic mouse driver might help. |
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1043 This is another common problem with mouse drivers. Instead of |
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1044 generating scroll events, some mouse drivers try to fake scroll bar |
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1045 movement. But they are not intelligent enough to handle multiple |
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1046 scroll bars within a frame. Trying a generic mouse driver might help. |
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33455 | 1048 * Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be |
1049 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know | |
1050 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've | |
1051 seen. | |
1052 | |
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1053 * After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs, the Meta key stops working. |
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1055 This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by |
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1056 Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was |
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1057 modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a |
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1058 keyboard where the Windows key is the one which produces the Meta |
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1059 modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which |
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1060 was not hacked by Mandrake, expected the Alt key to continue to act as |
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1061 Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen. |
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1063 The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta |
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1064 modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left |
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1065 and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see |
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1066 which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use |
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1067 the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta |
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1068 modifier: |
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1070 xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt" |
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1072 A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier |
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1073 is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system: |
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1075 xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps |
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1077 This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your |
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1078 keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what |
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1079 keys can serve as Meta. |
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1081 The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current |
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1082 keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them. |
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31514 | 1084 * On OSF/Dec Unix/Tru64/<whatever it is this year> under X locally or |
1085 remotely, M-SPC acts as a `compose' key with strange results. See | |
1086 keyboard(5). | |
1087 | |
1088 Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it: | |
1089 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L' | |
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1090 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R' |
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25853 | 1092 * Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6. |
1093 | |
1094 Install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this problem should go away. | |
1095 It is possible that this problem results from upgrading the operating | |
1096 system without reinstalling GCC; so you could also try reinstalling | |
1097 the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem. | |
1098 | |
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1099 * Emacs dumps core on Solaris in function IMCheckWindow. |
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1101 This was reported to happen when Emacs runs with more than one frame, |
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1102 and one of them is closed, either with "C-x 5 0" or from the window |
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1105 This bug was reported to Sun as |
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1107 Gtk apps dump core in ximlocal.so.2:IMCheckIMWindow() |
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1108 Bug Reports: 4463537 |
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1112 library xiiimp.so. |
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1114 Alternatively, you can configure Emacs with `--with-xim=no' to prevent |
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1115 the core dump, but will loose X input method support, of course. (You |
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1116 can use Emacs's own input methods instead, if you install Leim.) |
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25853 | 1118 * On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X. |
1119 | |
1120 This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for | |
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1123 or uninstall patch 107058-01, or install the GNU Binutils. |
25853 | 1124 Then recompile Emacs, and it should work. |
1125 | |
1126 * With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup. | |
1127 | |
1128 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem. | |
1129 | |
1130 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999 | |
1131 +++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999 | |
1132 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ | |
1133 -/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */ | |
1134 +/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */ | |
1135 /****************************************************************** | |
1136 | |
1137 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED | |
1138 @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ | |
1139 _XimMakeImName(lcd) | |
1140 XLCd lcd; | |
1141 { | |
1142 - char* begin; | |
1143 - char* end; | |
1144 + char* begin = NULL; | |
1145 + char* end = NULL; | |
1146 char* ret; | |
1147 int i = 0; | |
1148 char* ximmodifier = XIMMODIFIER; | |
1149 @@ -182,7 +182,11 @@ | |
1150 } | |
1151 ret = Xmalloc(end - begin + 2); | |
1152 if (ret != NULL) { | |
1153 - (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1); | |
1154 + if (begin != NULL) { | |
1155 + (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1); | |
1156 + } else { | |
1157 + ret[0] = '\0'; | |
1158 + } | |
1159 ret[end - begin + 1] = '\0'; | |
1160 } | |
1161 return ret; | |
1162 | |
1163 | |
1164 * Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC. | |
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25853 | 1166 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95. |
1167 | |
1168 * Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3. | |
1169 | |
1170 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3. | |
1171 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up. | |
1172 | |
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1173 * The S-C-t key combination doesn't get passed to Emacs on X. |
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1175 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t |
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1176 combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending |
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1177 definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there |
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1179 purposes. |
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1182 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs. |
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25853 | 1184 * On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use |
1185 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales). | |
1186 | |
1187 You can fix this by editing the file: | |
1188 | |
1189 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose | |
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25853 | 1191 Near the bottom there is a line that reads: |
1192 | |
1193 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters | |
1194 | |
1195 that should read: | |
1196 | |
1197 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters | |
1198 | |
1199 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work. | |
1200 | |
1201 * Emacs on Digital Unix 4.0 fails to build, giving error message | |
1202 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160 | |
1203 | |
1204 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0. | |
1205 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem. | |
1206 | |
1207 * Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode. | |
1208 | |
1209 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause | |
1210 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's | |
1211 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem. | |
1212 | |
1213 * Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work. | |
1214 | |
1215 These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In | |
1216 particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default | |
1217 configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the | |
1218 configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to | |
1219 change this. | |
1220 | |
1221 * When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall. | |
1222 | |
1223 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified | |
1224 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources) | |
1225 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are | |
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1229 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution" |
25853 | 1230 feature (in the font part of the configuration window). |
1231 | |
1232 * Failure in unexec while dumping emacs on Digital Unix 4.0 | |
1233 | |
1234 This problem manifests itself as an error message | |
1235 | |
1236 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ... | |
1237 | |
1238 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries | |
1239 were built for an older system version, | |
1240 | |
1241 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib | |
1242 | |
1243 made the problem go away. | |
1244 | |
1245 * No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1. | |
1246 | |
1247 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches | |
1248 as of 8 Dec 1998. | |
1249 | |
1250 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3. | |
1251 | |
1252 * As of version 20.4, Emacs doesn't work properly if configured for | |
1253 the Motif toolkit and linked against the free LessTif library. The | |
1254 next Emacs release is expected to work with LessTif. | |
1255 | |
1256 * Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information. | |
1257 | |
1258 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses | |
1259 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is | |
1260 likely to cause it. | |
1261 | |
1262 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem. | |
1263 | |
1264 * Emacs makes HPUX 11.0 crash. | |
1265 | |
1266 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it. | |
1267 | |
1268 * Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine (HPUX 10.20). | |
1269 | |
1270 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1. | |
1271 | |
1272 * The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in | |
1273 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using | |
1274 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook | |
1275 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this. | |
1276 | |
1277 * Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2 | |
1278 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later. | |
1279 Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably, | |
1280 earlier versions. | |
1281 | |
1282 --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1 | |
1283 +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00 | |
1284 @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti | |
1285 (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil)) | |
1286 (cond | |
1287 ((stringp entity) ; a file name | |
1288 - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity)) | |
1289 + (insert-file-contents entity) | |
1290 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity))) | |
1291 ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id? | |
1292 (let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity)) | |
1293 | |
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1294 * Emacs 21 freezes when visiting a TeX file with AUC TeX installed. |
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1295 |
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1296 Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUC TeX; upgrading should solve |
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1297 these problems. |
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1298 |
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1299 * No colors in AUC TeX with Emacs 21. |
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1300 |
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1301 Upgrade to AUC TeX version 10 or later, and make sure it is |
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1302 byte-compiled with Emacs 21. |
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1303 |
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1304 * Running TeX from AUC TeX package with Emacs 20.3 gives a Lisp error |
25853 | 1305 about a read-only tex output buffer. |
1306 | |
1307 This problem appeared for AUC TeX version 9.9j and some earlier | |
1308 versions. Here is a patch for the file tex-buf.el in the AUC TeX | |
1309 package. | |
1310 | |
1311 diff -c auctex/tex-buf.el~ auctex/tex-buf.el | |
1312 *** auctex/tex-buf.el~ Wed Jul 29 18:35:32 1998 | |
1313 --- auctex/tex-buf.el Sat Sep 5 15:20:38 1998 | |
1314 *************** | |
1315 *** 545,551 **** | |
1316 (dir (TeX-master-directory))) | |
1317 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running | |
1318 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer)) | |
1319 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer) | |
1320 (set-buffer buffer) | |
1321 (if dir (cd dir)) | |
1322 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n") | |
1323 - --- 545,552 ---- | |
1324 (dir (TeX-master-directory))) | |
1325 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running | |
1326 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer)) | |
1327 ! (let (temp-buffer-show-function temp-buffer-show-hook) | |
1328 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer)) | |
1329 (set-buffer buffer) | |
1330 (if dir (cd dir)) | |
1331 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n") | |
1332 | |
1333 * On Irix 6.3, substituting environment variables in file names | |
1334 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as | |
1335 | |
1336 Substituting nonexistent environment variable "" | |
1337 | |
1338 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch | |
1339 003082 August 11, 1998. | |
1340 | |
1341 * After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode. | |
1342 | |
1343 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does | |
1344 (standard-display-european t) | |
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1345 That should be changed to |
25853 | 1346 (standard-display-european 1 t) |
1347 | |
1348 * Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'. | |
1349 | |
1350 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package | |
1351 supplies the `install-info' command. | |
1352 | |
1353 * Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key, on HPUX. | |
1354 | |
1355 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable | |
1356 rights, containing this text: | |
1357 | |
1358 -------------------------------- | |
1359 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF | |
1360 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L | |
1361 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R | |
1362 EOF | |
1363 | |
1364 xmodmap - << EOF | |
1365 clear mod1 | |
1366 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol | |
1367 add mod1 = Meta_L | |
1368 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch | |
1369 add mod2 = Mode_switch | |
1370 EOF | |
1371 -------------------------------- | |
1372 | |
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1373 * Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed. |
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1374 |
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1375 This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically |
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1376 requests the X clipboard contents from applications. Early versions |
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1377 of klipper don't implement the ICCM protocol for large selections, |
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1378 which leads to Emacs being flooded with selection requests. After a |
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1379 while, Emacs will print a message: |
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1380 |
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1381 Timed out waiting for property-notify event |
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1382 |
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1383 A workaround is to not use `klipper'. |
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1384 |
25853 | 1385 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files |
1386 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any | |
1387 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'. | |
1388 | |
1389 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style | |
1390 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A | |
1391 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name. | |
1392 | |
1393 * M-SPC seems to be ignored as input. | |
1394 | |
1395 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command | |
1396 for character composition. | |
1397 | |
1398 * Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow. | |
1399 | |
1400 This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the | |
1401 full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the | |
1402 /etc/hosts file, something like this: | |
1403 | |
1404 127.0.0.1 localhost | |
1405 129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04 | |
1406 | |
1407 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems. | |
1408 | |
1409 * Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs on Digital Unix 4.0. | |
1410 | |
1411 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM | |
1412 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays | |
1413 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running | |
1414 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix | |
1415 in Emacs. | |
1416 | |
1417 * When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error. | |
1418 | |
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1419 This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII |
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1420 characters only and then try to use it from Emacs with non-ASCII |
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1421 characters, like Latin-1. The solution is to recompile Ispell with |
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1422 support for 8-bit characters. |
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1423 |
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1424 To see whether your Ispell program supports 8-bit characters, type |
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1425 this at your shell's prompt: |
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1426 |
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1427 ispell -vv |
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1428 |
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1429 and look in the output for the string "NO8BIT". If Ispell says |
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1430 "!NO8BIT (8BIT)", your speller supports 8-bit characters; otherwise it |
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1431 does not. |
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1432 |
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1433 To rebuild Ispell with 8-bit character support, edit the local.h file |
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1434 in the Ispell distribution and make sure it does _not_ define NO8BIT. |
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1435 Then rebuild the speller. |
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1436 |
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1437 Another possible cause for "misalignment" error messages is that the |
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1438 version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade. |
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1439 |
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1440 Yet another possibility is that you are trying to spell-check a word |
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1441 in a language that doesn't fit the dictionary you choose for use by |
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1442 Ispell. (Ispell can only spell-check one language at a time, because |
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1443 it uses a single dictionary.) Make sure that the text you are |
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1444 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other. |
25853 | 1445 |
46919 | 1446 If your spell-checking program is Aspell, it has been reported that if |
1447 you have a personal configuration file (normally ~/.aspell.conf), it | |
1448 can cause this error. Remove that file, execute `ispell-kill-ispell' | |
1449 in Emacs, and then try spell-checking again. | |
1450 | |
25853 | 1451 * On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through |
1452 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault. | |
1453 | |
1454 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized. | |
1455 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is | |
1456 known to work. | |
1457 | |
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1458 * On MS-Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand |
25853 | 1459 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character. |
1460 | |
1461 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control. | |
1462 | |
1463 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key | |
1464 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot | |
1465 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl | |
1466 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that | |
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1467 AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set |
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1468 to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt. |
25853 | 1469 |
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1470 * Emacs crashes when using the Exceed 6.0 X server |
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1471 |
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1472 If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was |
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1473 reported to prevent the crashes. |
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1475 * Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs' display is incorrect |
25853 | 1476 |
1477 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the | |
1478 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective | |
1479 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen | |
1480 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear. | |
1481 | |
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1482 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions |
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1483 as well; it is reportedly solved in version 6.2.0.16 and later. The |
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1484 problem lies in the X-server settings. |
25853 | 1485 |
1486 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by | |
1487 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then | |
1488 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X | |
1489 selection". | |
1490 | |
1491 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then | |
1492 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. | |
1493 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it | |
1494 here. | |
1495 | |
1496 * On Solaris 2, Emacs dumps core when built with Motif. | |
1497 | |
1498 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1. | |
1499 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host. | |
1500 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.) | |
1501 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too. | |
1502 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/; | |
1503 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches | |
1504 are currently recommended for your host. | |
1505 | |
1506 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch | |
1507 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed. | |
1508 105284-18 might fix it again. | |
1509 | |
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1510 * On Solaris 2.6 and 7, the Compose key does not work. |
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1511 |
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1512 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for |
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1513 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun |
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1514 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch. |
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1515 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711. |
25853 | 1516 |
1517 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters. | |
1518 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment | |
1519 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale | |
1520 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX" | |
1521 should do. | |
1522 | |
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25853 | 1534 * Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name. |
1535 | |
1536 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name, | |
1537 either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system | |
1538 calls for specifying this. | |
1539 | |
1540 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable | |
1541 mail-host-address to the value you want. | |
1542 | |
1543 * Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs, on UnixWare 2.1 | |
1544 | |
1545 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed | |
1546 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during | |
1547 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That | |
1548 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been | |
1549 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual | |
1550 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs. | |
1551 | |
1552 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh). | |
1553 But you have to be root to do it. | |
1554 | |
1555 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel: | |
1556 | |
1557 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit | |
1558 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard " | |
1559 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit | |
1560 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard " | |
1561 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B | |
1562 | |
1563 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.) | |
1564 These changes take effect when you reboot. | |
1565 | |
1566 * Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions. | |
1567 | |
1568 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when | |
1569 scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this | |
1570 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars | |
1571 on the right (as they were in Emacs 19). | |
1572 | |
1573 Here's how to do this: | |
1574 | |
1575 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right) | |
1576 | |
1577 If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you, | |
1578 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back | |
1579 to normal, do | |
1580 | |
1581 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left) | |
1582 | |
1583 * Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes. | |
1584 | |
1585 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs | |
1586 supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires | |
1587 many different fonts, collected into a fontset. | |
1588 | |
1589 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X | |
1590 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes. | |
1591 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. | |
1592 | |
1593 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can | |
1594 display all the characters Emacs supports. | |
1595 | |
35249 | 1596 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a |
1597 missing glyph and no default character. This is known ot occur for | |
1598 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida | |
1599 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version | |
1600 of this character to display a space. | |
1601 | |
25853 | 1602 * Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. |
1603 | |
1604 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution. | |
1605 | |
1606 * Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should". | |
1607 | |
1608 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller | |
1609 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that | |
1610 lines do not overlap. | |
1611 | |
1612 * You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse | |
1613 video, but later frames are not in inverse video. | |
1614 | |
1615 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in | |
1616 your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to | |
1617 check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library. | |
1618 | |
1619 * In FreeBSD 2.1.5, useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other | |
1620 directories that have the +t bit. | |
1621 | |
1622 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2). | |
1623 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory | |
1624 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic | |
1625 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else. | |
1626 | |
1627 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using | |
1628 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h. | |
1629 | |
1630 * When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down' | |
1631 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs. | |
1632 | |
1633 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit': | |
1634 | |
1635 dbxenv output_short_file_name off | |
1636 | |
1637 * Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually | |
1638 appear on disk. | |
1639 | |
1640 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the | |
1641 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS | |
1642 implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to | |
1643 detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system | |
1644 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case | |
1645 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails. | |
1646 | |
1647 * "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key. | |
1648 | |
1649 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you | |
1650 will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked" | |
1651 in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions | |
1652 did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do | |
1653 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you | |
1654 must pick one meaning or the other for any given key. | |
1655 | |
1656 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign | |
1657 them to two different keys. | |
1658 | |
1659 * Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup, on AIX4.2. | |
1660 | |
1661 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c | |
1662 without optimization; that should avoid the problem. | |
1663 | |
1664 * movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server. | |
1665 | |
1666 Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services | |
1667 NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the | |
1668 entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be | |
1669 listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while | |
1670 the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the | |
1671 old POP protocol. | |
1672 | |
1673 * Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog. | |
1674 | |
1675 This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to | |
1676 use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with | |
1677 an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that | |
1678 happens to exist on your X server). | |
1679 | |
1680 * Emacs crashes when you use Bibtex mode. | |
1681 | |
1682 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can | |
1683 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit') | |
1684 to raise the stack size limit before you run Emacs. | |
1685 | |
1686 Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main' | |
1687 (src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated. | |
1688 | |
1689 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on HPUX 9 after you delete a frame. | |
1690 | |
1691 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With | |
1692 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem | |
1693 does not happen. | |
1694 | |
1695 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame. | |
1696 | |
1697 We suspect that this is a similar bug in the X libraries provided by | |
1698 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and | |
1699 makes the problem stop: | |
1700 | |
1701 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02 | |
1702 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03 | |
1703 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01 | |
1704 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01 | |
1705 | |
1706 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06) | |
1707 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches: | |
1708 | |
1709 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch | |
1710 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes | |
1711 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch | |
1712 | |
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1713 * Problems running Perl under Emacs on MS-Windows NT/95. |
25853 | 1714 |
1715 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell. | |
1716 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95). | |
1717 | |
1718 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to | |
1719 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting | |
1720 with the user. | |
1721 | |
1722 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a | |
1723 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to | |
1724 communicate with the subprocess. | |
1725 | |
1726 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the | |
1727 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be | |
1728 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as | |
1729 stdin. | |
1730 | |
1731 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON. | |
1732 | |
1733 For Perl 4: | |
1734 | |
1735 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993 | |
1736 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996 | |
1737 *************** | |
1738 *** 68,74 **** | |
1739 $rcfile=".perldb"; | |
1740 } | |
1741 else { | |
1742 ! $console = "con"; | |
1743 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; | |
1744 } | |
1745 | |
1746 --- 68,74 ---- | |
1747 $rcfile=".perldb"; | |
1748 } | |
1749 else { | |
1750 ! $console = ""; | |
1751 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; | |
1752 } | |
1753 | |
1754 | |
1755 For Perl 5: | |
1756 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995 | |
1757 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996 | |
1758 *************** | |
1759 *** 22,28 **** | |
1760 $rcfile=".perldb"; | |
1761 } | |
1762 elsif (-e "con") { | |
1763 ! $console = "con"; | |
1764 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; | |
1765 } | |
1766 else { | |
1767 --- 22,28 ---- | |
1768 $rcfile=".perldb"; | |
1769 } | |
1770 elsif (-e "con") { | |
1771 ! $console = ""; | |
1772 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; | |
1773 } | |
1774 else { | |
1775 | |
1776 * Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs: | |
1777 | |
1778 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems: | |
1779 | |
1780 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get | |
1781 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com'; | |
1782 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs. | |
1783 | |
1784 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos | |
1785 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link | |
1786 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the | |
1787 incorrect library functions. | |
1788 | |
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1797 * When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets |
25853 | 1798 like make-docfile. |
1799 | |
1800 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment | |
1801 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during | |
1802 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for | |
1803 the explanation of how to avoid this problem. | |
1804 | |
1805 * Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other | |
1806 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled. | |
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1808 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits |
25853 | 1809 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find |
1810 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout | |
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1817 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN | |
1818 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6 | |
1819 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it. | |
1820 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long | |
1821 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program | |
1822 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL | |
1823 explains this issue in more detail. | |
1824 | |
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1828 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating |
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25853 | 1833 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup: |
1834 | |
1835 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face" | |
1836 | |
1837 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs | |
1838 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the | |
1839 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then | |
1840 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't | |
1841 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be | |
1842 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an | |
1843 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for | |
1844 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of | |
1845 your system works as before. | |
1846 | |
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1847 * On MS-Windows 95, Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs. |
25853 | 1848 |
1849 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95. | |
1850 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6. | |
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1852 * Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows. |
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1854 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If | |
1855 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt | |
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1858 or disable it in the keyboard control panel. |
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1860 * `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses. | |
1861 | |
1862 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in | |
1863 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a | |
1864 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also | |
1865 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support | |
1866 does not work with this version of ncurses. | |
1867 | |
1868 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. | |
1869 | |
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1881 symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) |
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25853 | 1884 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun. |
1885 | |
1886 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of | |
1887 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such | |
1888 as GCC. | |
1889 | |
1890 * Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly truncated | |
1891 on GNU/Linux systems. | |
1892 | |
1893 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version | |
1894 1.3.75. | |
1895 | |
1896 * Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems. | |
1897 | |
1898 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16 | |
1899 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the | |
1900 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it | |
1901 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16. | |
1902 | |
1903 Using the old library version is a workaround. | |
1904 | |
1905 * On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time). | |
1906 | |
1907 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise | |
1908 version of Solaris that you are using. | |
1909 | |
1910 * Emacs dumps core on startup, on Solaris. | |
1911 | |
1912 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch | |
1913 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris | |
1914 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem | |
1915 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead. | |
1916 However, that linker version won't work with CDE. | |
1917 | |
1918 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if | |
1919 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed. | |
1920 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know | |
1921 for certain. | |
1922 | |
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1924 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes) |
25853 | 1925 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes) |
1926 | |
1927 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together | |
1928 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.) | |
1929 | |
1930 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell | |
1931 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. | |
1932 | |
1933 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and | |
1934 Solaris 2.5. | |
1935 | |
1936 * Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called, on Solaris. | |
1937 | |
1938 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2 | |
1939 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is | |
1940 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC. | |
1941 | |
1942 * "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes on HPUX, in | |
1943 Emacs built with Motif. | |
1944 | |
1945 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions | |
1946 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem. | |
1947 | |
1948 * On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi | |
1949 | |
1950 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o" | |
1951 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run, | |
1952 find that string, and take out the spaces. | |
1953 | |
1954 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem. | |
1955 | |
1956 * "out of virtual swap space" on Irix 5.3 | |
1957 | |
1958 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too | |
1959 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more | |
1960 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You | |
1961 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the | |
1962 command `swap -l'. | |
1963 | |
1964 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a | |
1965 line like this: | |
1966 | |
1967 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0 | |
1968 | |
1969 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance | |
1970 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of | |
1971 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the | |
1972 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further | |
1973 information. | |
1974 | |
1975 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be | |
1976 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users | |
1977 on the network that can log on to the host. | |
1978 | |
1979 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute | |
1980 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable | |
1981 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM | |
1982 icons. | |
1983 | |
1984 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin' | |
1985 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35 | |
1986 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at | |
1987 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/. | |
1988 | |
1989 * With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the | |
1990 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead. | |
1991 | |
1992 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went | |
1993 away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was | |
1994 XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works. | |
1995 | |
1996 * On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft. | |
1997 | |
1998 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4' | |
1999 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise | |
2000 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which | |
2001 it can do perfectly well for SunOS). | |
2002 | |
2003 * On SunOS 4, Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server | |
2004 (or log out, if you logged in using X). | |
2005 | |
2006 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem. | |
2007 | |
2008 * On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer | |
2009 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown". | |
2010 | |
2011 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default. | |
2012 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal | |
2013 Definitions" to make them defined. | |
2014 | |
2015 * On SunOS, you get linker errors | |
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2018 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass | |
2019 | |
2020 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0 | |
2021 or link libXmu statically. | |
2022 | |
2023 * On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as | |
2024 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table | |
2025 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o. | |
2026 | |
2027 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing | |
2028 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where | |
2029 you build Emacs: | |
2030 | |
2031 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a . | |
2032 chmod 664 libIM.a | |
2033 ranlib libIM.a | |
2034 | |
2035 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in | |
2036 Makefile). | |
2037 | |
2038 * Unpredictable segmentation faults on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4. | |
2039 | |
2040 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with | |
2041 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0. | |
2042 | |
2043 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this. | |
2044 | |
2045 * Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for | |
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25853 | 2047 |
2048 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this. | |
2049 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the | |
2050 problem. | |
2051 | |
2052 * Emacs crashes at startup on MSDOS. | |
2053 | |
2054 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management, | |
2055 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet | |
2056 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real | |
2057 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler. | |
2058 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround. | |
2059 | |
2060 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without | |
2061 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more | |
2062 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp | |
2063 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.) | |
2064 | |
2065 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory | |
2066 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider | |
2067 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches) | |
2068 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See | |
2069 the djgpp faq for configuration hints. | |
2070 | |
2071 * A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm. | |
2072 | |
2073 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions. | |
2074 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file: | |
2075 | |
2076 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position | |
2077 | |
2078 * Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c. | |
2079 | |
2080 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve | |
2081 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun | |
2082 Emacs's configure script. | |
2083 | |
2084 * Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c. | |
2085 | |
2086 This results from a bug in GNU Sed version 2.03. To solve the | |
2087 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's | |
2088 configure script. | |
2089 | |
2090 * On Sunos 4.1.1, there are errors compiling sysdep.c. | |
2091 | |
2092 If you get errors such as | |
2093 | |
2094 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union | |
2095 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union | |
2096 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined | |
2097 | |
2098 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky | |
2099 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure | |
2100 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must | |
2101 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same | |
2102 ones available when you build Emacs. | |
2103 | |
2104 * The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps | |
2105 other non-English HP keyboards too). | |
2106 | |
2107 This is because HPUX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a | |
2108 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE | |
2109 configures the X server. | |
2110 | |
2111 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF | |
2112 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L | |
2113 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R | |
2114 EOF | |
2115 | |
2116 xmodmap - << EOF | |
2117 clear mod1 | |
2118 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol | |
2119 add mod1 = Meta_L | |
2120 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch | |
2121 add mod2 = Mode_switch | |
2122 EOF | |
2123 | |
2124 * The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q. | |
2125 | |
2126 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit | |
2127 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use | |
2128 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window | |
2129 manager to use some other command. You can disable the | |
2130 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults: | |
2131 | |
2132 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False | |
2133 | |
2134 * Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse. | |
2135 | |
2136 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and | |
2137 that replacing the mouse made it stop. | |
2138 | |
2139 * Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys. | |
2140 | |
2141 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to | |
2142 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able | |
2143 to allocate ptys reliably. | |
2144 | |
2145 * On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h. | |
2146 | |
2147 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the | |
2148 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset | |
2149 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy | |
2150 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of | |
2151 syms.h. | |
2152 | |
2153 * Slow startup on Linux-based GNU systems. | |
2154 | |
2155 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that | |
2156 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'. | |
2157 | |
2158 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts. | |
2159 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to | |
2160 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both | |
2161 networked and non-networked machines. | |
2162 | |
2163 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root. | |
2164 | |
2165 ** Networked Case | |
2166 | |
2167 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both | |
2168 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this | |
2169 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name): | |
2170 | |
2171 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME | |
2172 | |
2173 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following | |
2174 lines: | |
2175 | |
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2176 order hosts, bind |
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2178 | |
2179 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be | |
2180 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local | |
2181 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections | |
2182 dynamically allocate ip addresses). | |
2183 | |
2184 ** Non-Networked Case | |
2185 | |
2186 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well. | |
2187 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a | |
2188 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command | |
2189 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts' | |
2190 file is not necessary with this approach. | |
2191 | |
2192 * On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs | |
2193 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie. | |
2194 | |
2195 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so | |
2196 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines | |
2197 | |
2198 #if ThreadedX | |
2199 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread | |
2200 #endif | |
2201 | |
2202 to: | |
2203 | |
2204 #if OSMinorVersion < 4 | |
2205 #if ThreadedX | |
2206 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread | |
2207 #endif | |
2208 #endif | |
2209 | |
2210 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4 | |
2211 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for | |
2212 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under | |
2213 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the | |
2214 definition for your type of machine and system. | |
2215 | |
2216 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild | |
2217 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on | |
2218 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3. | |
2219 | |
2220 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch | |
2221 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need | |
2222 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that | |
2223 patch. | |
2224 | |
2225 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution: | |
2226 he changed | |
2227 #define ThreadedX YES | |
2228 to | |
2229 #define ThreadedX NO | |
2230 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all | |
2231 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and | |
2232 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work. | |
2233 | |
2234 * With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice | |
2235 to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response. | |
2236 | |
2237 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit, | |
2238 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use | |
2239 another escape character in kermit. One user did | |
2240 | |
2241 set escape-character 17 | |
2242 | |
2243 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character. | |
2244 | |
2245 * The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color. | |
2246 | |
2247 This has been observed to result from the following X resource: | |
2248 | |
2249 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* | |
2250 | |
2251 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we | |
2252 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can | |
2253 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing | |
2254 the resource prevents the problem. | |
2255 | |
2256 * Emacs gets hung shortly after startup, on Sunos 4.1.3. | |
2257 | |
2258 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that | |
2259 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug: | |
2260 | |
2261 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01 | |
2262 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01 | |
2263 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01 | |
2264 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 | |
2265 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01 | |
2266 | |
2267 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out | |
2268 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. | |
2269 | |
2270 * Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X. | |
2271 | |
2272 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was | |
2273 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to | |
2274 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes | |
2275 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use | |
2276 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers. | |
2277 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header | |
2278 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the | |
2279 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs | |
2280 not to work. | |
2281 | |
2282 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir | |
2283 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir | |
2284 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the | |
2285 same directory where system header files are kept. | |
2286 | |
2287 * On Solaris 2.x, GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported" | |
2288 | |
2289 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you | |
2290 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this | |
2291 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or | |
2292 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as | |
2293 described in the Solaris FAQ | |
2294 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is | |
2295 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later. | |
2296 | |
2297 * The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key. | |
2298 | |
2299 This shell command should fix it: | |
2300 | |
2301 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L' | |
2302 | |
2303 * Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems. | |
2304 | |
2305 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled | |
2306 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C | |
2307 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick | |
2308 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with | |
2309 GCC. | |
2310 | |
2311 * On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version. | |
2312 | |
2313 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant | |
2314 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete | |
2315 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory. | |
2316 | |
2317 * You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version). | |
2318 | |
2319 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus | |
2320 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you | |
2321 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in | |
2322 the Files menu). | |
2323 | |
2324 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is | |
2325 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really | |
2326 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a | |
2327 workaround can be found. | |
2328 | |
2329 * Unusable default font on SCO 3.2v4. | |
2330 | |
2331 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings | |
2332 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such | |
2333 fonts, so it does not work. | |
2334 | |
2335 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is | |
2336 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal | |
2337 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources | |
2338 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these | |
2339 resources affect Emacs also: | |
2340 | |
2341 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-* | |
2342 *Background: scoBackground | |
2343 *Foreground: scoForeground | |
2344 | |
2345 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for | |
2346 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents: | |
2347 | |
2348 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 | |
2349 Emacs*Background: white | |
2350 Emacs*Foreground: black | |
2351 | |
2352 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to | |
2353 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server | |
2354 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop | |
2355 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell | |
2356 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the | |
2357 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs, | |
2358 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the | |
2359 Open Desktop display. | |
2360 | |
2361 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO | |
2362 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually. | |
2363 | |
2364 * rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields". | |
2365 | |
2366 This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk. | |
2367 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk). | |
2368 | |
2369 * Emacs is slow using X11R5 on HP/UX. | |
2370 | |
2371 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it | |
2372 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version | |
2373 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a, | |
2374 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with | |
2375 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to | |
2376 install them and rebuild Emacs. | |
2377 | |
2378 * Loading fonts is very slow. | |
2379 | |
2380 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps. | |
2381 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font | |
2382 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file | |
2383 "fonts.scale". | |
2384 | |
2385 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable | |
2386 font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details. | |
2387 | |
2388 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font | |
2389 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26. | |
2390 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary. | |
2391 | |
2392 * On AIX 3.2.4, releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down. | |
2393 | |
2394 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is | |
2395 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can | |
2396 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are | |
2397 treated as control characters. | |
2398 | |
2399 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and | |
2400 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys. | |
2401 | |
2402 * display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems. | |
2403 | |
2404 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other | |
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2410 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have |
25853 | 2411 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst. |
2412 | |
2413 The only known fix: Don't run display-time. | |
2414 | |
2415 * On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console. | |
2416 | |
2417 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r | |
2418 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs. | |
2419 | |
2420 * Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by | |
2421 segmentation fault and core dump. | |
2422 | |
2423 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously | |
2424 added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code: | |
2425 | |
2426 x FILENAME, N bytes, B tape blocks | |
2427 | |
2428 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to | |
2429 untar it :-). | |
2430 | |
2431 * Link failure when using acc on a Sun. | |
2432 | |
2433 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as | |
2434 | |
2435 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1 | |
2436 | |
2437 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc. | |
2438 | |
2439 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we | |
2440 cannot easily arrange to supply them. | |
2441 | |
2442 * Link failure on IBM AIX 1.3 ptf 0013. | |
2443 | |
2444 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in | |
2445 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The | |
2446 workaround/fix is: | |
2447 | |
2448 cd /lib | |
2449 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o | |
2450 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o | |
2451 | |
2452 * Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose on a Sun. | |
2453 | |
2454 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking | |
2455 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in | |
2456 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared | |
2457 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X | |
2458 toolkit.) | |
2459 | |
2460 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find | |
2461 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in | |
2462 X11R4, then use it in the link. | |
2463 | |
2464 * Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5' | |
2465 | |
2466 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded. | |
2467 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because | |
2468 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls | |
2469 where-is-internal in an obsolete way. | |
2470 | |
2471 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey. | |
2472 | |
2473 * In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line. | |
2474 | |
2475 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too | |
2476 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns | |
2477 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the | |
2478 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file: | |
2479 | |
2480 if ($?EMACS) then | |
2481 if ($EMACS == "t") then | |
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25853 | 2483 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z |
2484 endif | |
2485 endif | |
2486 | |
2487 * An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid | |
2488 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'. | |
2489 | |
2490 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as | |
2491 emacs*Cursor: black | |
2492 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something | |
2493 that isn't a color.) | |
2494 | |
2495 The fix is to correct your X resources. | |
2496 | |
2497 * Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1 using --with-x-toolkit. | |
2498 | |
2499 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace, | |
2500 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after | |
2501 -lXaw in the command that links temacs. | |
2502 | |
2503 This problem seems to arise only when the international language | |
2504 extensions to X11R5 are installed. | |
2505 | |
2506 * Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server. | |
2507 | |
2508 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is | |
2509 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs. | |
2510 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem. | |
2511 | |
2512 * src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing. | |
2513 | |
2514 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version | |
2515 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly. | |
2516 | |
2517 * Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows. | |
2518 | |
2519 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X | |
2520 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font | |
2521 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1 | |
2522 font. | |
2523 | |
2524 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from | |
2525 your font path, like this: | |
2526 | |
2527 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ | |
2528 | |
2529 * Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs. | |
2530 | |
2531 An X resource of this form can cause the problem: | |
2532 | |
2533 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0 | |
2534 | |
2535 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus | |
2536 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you | |
2537 want, rewrite the resource. | |
2538 | |
2539 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb | |
2540 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at | |
2541 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files. | |
2542 | |
2543 * --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries. | |
2544 | |
2545 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others, | |
2546 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X | |
2547 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared | |
2548 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of | |
2549 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4 | |
2550 and Solaris in version 19.29. | |
2551 | |
2552 * `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'. | |
2553 | |
2554 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar | |
2555 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in | |
2556 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by | |
2557 hand. | |
2558 | |
2559 * --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong on BSD/386. | |
2560 | |
2561 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386. | |
2562 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell, | |
2563 such as bash. | |
2564 | |
2565 * Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies, on Sunos 5.3. | |
2566 | |
2567 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs | |
2568 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only | |
2569 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses | |
2570 communicating through pipes. | |
2571 | |
2572 * Mail is lost when sent to local aliases. | |
2573 | |
2574 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the | |
2575 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be | |
2576 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually) | |
2577 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which | |
2578 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the | |
2579 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to | |
2580 obtain the destination address. | |
2581 | |
2582 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail. | |
2583 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize | |
2584 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris | |
2585 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS | |
2586 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which | |
2587 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time | |
2588 of this writing, these official versions are available: | |
2589 | |
2590 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail: | |
2591 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation) | |
2592 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files) | |
2593 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs) | |
2594 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript) | |
2595 | |
2596 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub: | |
2597 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz | |
2598 | |
2599 * On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs: | |
2600 | |
2601 Could not load program emacs | |
2602 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined | |
2603 Error was: Exec format error | |
2604 | |
2605 or this one: | |
2606 | |
2607 Could not load program .emacs | |
2608 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined | |
2609 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined | |
2610 Error was: Exec format error | |
2611 | |
2612 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was | |
2613 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile. | |
2614 | |
2615 * On AIX, you get this compiler error message: | |
2616 | |
2617 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h | |
2618 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found. | |
2619 | |
2620 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d | |
2621 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install | |
2622 X11Dev... with smit. | |
2623 | |
2624 * You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key. | |
2625 | |
2626 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym | |
2627 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11 | |
2628 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key | |
2629 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap. | |
2630 | |
2631 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key: | |
2632 | |
2633 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L" | |
2634 | |
2635 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to | |
2636 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the | |
2637 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display. | |
2638 | |
2639 * C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs. | |
2640 | |
2641 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even | |
2642 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell, | |
2643 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value. | |
2644 | |
2645 * Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars | |
2646 | |
2647 These control the actions of Emacs. | |
2648 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file. | |
2649 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function | |
2650 "load" will search. | |
2651 | |
2652 If you observe strange problems, check for these and get rid | |
2653 of them, then try again. | |
2654 | |
2655 * After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash. | |
2656 | |
2657 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the | |
2658 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly | |
2659 the first time, and then crash when run a second time. | |
2660 | |
2661 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time, | |
2662 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your | |
2663 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the | |
2664 configure script) that reads: | |
2665 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC | |
2666 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around | |
2667 the kernel bug. | |
2668 | |
2669 * Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating | |
2670 directly with an X server. | |
2671 | |
2672 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it | |
2673 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is | |
2674 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c | |
2675 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event | |
2676 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you | |
2677 have made the key binding correctly. | |
2678 | |
2679 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may | |
2680 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X | |
2681 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by | |
2682 default. | |
2683 | |
2684 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows: | |
2685 | |
2686 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L' | |
2687 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R' | |
2688 | |
2689 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those | |
2690 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you | |
2691 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any | |
2692 modifier bit not otherwise used. | |
2693 | |
2694 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other | |
2695 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or | |
2696 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the | |
2697 commands show above to make them modifier keys. | |
2698 | |
2699 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt | |
2700 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs. | |
2701 | |
2702 * `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error' | |
2703 | |
2704 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS | |
2705 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and | |
2706 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default | |
2707 value is just ten seconds. | |
2708 | |
2709 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period. | |
2710 | |
2711 * `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on. | |
2712 | |
2713 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information | |
2714 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using | |
2715 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work | |
2716 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on. | |
2717 | |
2718 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in | |
2719 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution. | |
2720 | |
2721 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is | |
2722 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know. | |
2723 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included | |
2724 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host. | |
2725 | |
2726 * On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X. | |
2727 | |
2728 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves | |
2729 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be | |
2730 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using. | |
2731 | |
2732 * Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined. | |
2733 | |
2734 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS. | |
2735 | |
2736 * Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though | |
2737 the names work properly with other programs on the same system. | |
2738 * Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0. | |
2739 * GNUs can't make contact with the specified host for nntp. | |
2740 | |
2741 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared | |
2742 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the | |
2743 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a | |
2744 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses. | |
2745 | |
2746 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with | |
2747 the nameserver, but Emacs does not. | |
2748 | |
2749 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you | |
2750 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs. | |
2751 | |
2752 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT. | |
2753 | |
2754 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a, | |
2755 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to | |
2756 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE | |
2757 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro | |
2758 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries, | |
2759 be careful not to lose the others. | |
2760 | |
2761 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h: | |
2762 | |
2763 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv | |
2764 | |
2765 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that | |
2766 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h | |
2767 again to say this: | |
2768 | |
2769 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar | |
2770 | |
2771 * On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld: | |
2772 | |
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2775 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld. | |
2776 | |
2777 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun. | |
2778 | |
2779 * Self documentation messages are garbled. | |
2780 | |
2781 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond | |
2782 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the | |
2783 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem. | |
2784 | |
2785 * Trouble using ptys on AIX. | |
2786 | |
2787 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly. | |
2788 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly. | |
2789 | |
2790 * Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous". | |
2791 | |
2792 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says: | |
2793 | |
2794 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to | |
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2796 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, |
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2798 | |
2799 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single | |
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2802 if (`tty` == "/dev/console") |
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2804 should be changed to: | |
2805 | |
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2806 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console") |
25853 | 2807 |
2808 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc | |
2809 and into .login. | |
2810 | |
2811 * Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang. | |
2812 | |
2813 Use the shell command `xset bc' to make the old X Menu package work. | |
2814 | |
2815 * Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks. | |
2816 * `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'. | |
2817 | |
2818 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in | |
2819 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in | |
2820 the environment. | |
2821 | |
2822 * Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun. | |
2823 | |
2824 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or | |
2825 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates | |
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2826 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries, |
25853 | 2827 with a floating point option other than the default. |
2828 | |
2829 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in | |
2830 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o. | |
2831 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default | |
2832 floating point option: -fsoft. | |
2833 | |
2834 * Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server. | |
2835 | |
2836 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd | |
2837 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to | |
2838 tell Emacs to compensate for this. | |
2839 | |
2840 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself | |
2841 whether this problem is present on a given system. | |
2842 | |
2843 * Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver | |
2844 as a concentrator. | |
2845 | |
2846 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use | |
2847 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters. | |
2848 | |
2849 * M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1". | |
2850 | |
2851 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos | |
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2852 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine. |
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2854 * Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs' | |
2855 terminal type. | |
2856 | |
2857 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP | |
2858 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to | |
2859 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs | |
2860 emulates. | |
2861 | |
2862 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP | |
2863 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets | |
2864 it only if it is undefined. | |
2865 | |
2866 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file | |
2867 | |
2868 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not | |
2869 happen in a non-login shell. | |
2870 | |
2871 * X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname. | |
2872 | |
2873 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs | |
2874 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But | |
2875 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think | |
2876 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD. | |
2877 | |
2878 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil). | |
2879 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that | |
2880 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g. | |
2881 | |
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2882 The easy way to do this is to put |
25853 | 2883 |
2884 (setq x-sigio-bug t) | |
2885 | |
2886 in your site-init.el file. | |
2887 | |
2888 * Problem with remote X server on Suns. | |
2889 | |
2890 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another | |
2891 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This | |
2892 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup. | |
2893 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized. | |
2894 | |
2895 * Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain | |
2896 | |
2897 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message: | |
2898 | |
2899 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell... | |
2900 | |
2901 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system. | |
2902 Here is how to make more of them. | |
2903 | |
2904 % cd /dev | |
2905 % ls pty* | |
2906 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7) | |
2907 % /etc/crpty 8 | |
2908 # creates eight new pty's | |
2909 | |
2910 * Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump | |
2911 | |
2912 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the | |
2913 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS. | |
2914 | |
2915 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping | |
2916 space available on the machine. | |
2917 | |
2918 On 68000's, it has also happened because of bugs in the | |
2919 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even | |
2920 for large blocks (many pages). | |
2921 | |
2922 * test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered | |
2923 * or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127" | |
2924 * or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work. | |
2925 * or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs | |
2926 | |
2927 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be | |
2928 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are | |
2929 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values. | |
2930 | |
2931 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. | |
2932 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in | |
2933 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar' | |
2934 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters | |
2935 when unpacking the shell archive. | |
2936 | |
2937 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know | |
2938 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network | |
2939 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit. | |
2940 | |
2941 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its | |
2942 nonprinting characters, you can fix them: | |
2943 | |
2944 1) Record the names of all the .elc files. | |
2945 2) Delete all the .elc files. | |
2946 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large. | |
2947 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o. | |
2948 4) Remake emacs. It should work now. | |
2949 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly | |
2950 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist. | |
2951 You may need to increase the value of the variable | |
2952 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted | |
2953 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report. | |
2954 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any) | |
2955 and remake temacs. | |
2956 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files. | |
2957 | |
2958 * temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted" | |
2959 | |
2960 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el | |
2961 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more | |
2962 space than was allocated. | |
2963 | |
2964 This could be caused by | |
2965 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files | |
2966 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el | |
2967 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files. | |
2968 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard; | |
2969 if you have received Emacs from some other site | |
2970 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider | |
2971 deleting that file. | |
2972 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files | |
2973 (not from the directory you expected). | |
2974 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist. | |
2975 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be | |
2976 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose. | |
2977 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates | |
2978 the space required. | |
2979 | |
2980 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition | |
2981 of PURESIZE in puresize.h. | |
2982 | |
2983 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence | |
2984 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real | |
2985 problem. | |
2986 | |
2987 * Changes made to .el files do not take effect. | |
2988 | |
2989 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files. | |
2990 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes | |
2991 will not be seen. To fix this, do M-x byte-recompile-directory | |
2992 and specify the directory that contains the Lisp files. | |
2993 | |
2994 Emacs should print a warning when loading a .elc file which is older | |
2995 than the corresponding .el file. | |
2996 | |
2997 * The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data. | |
2998 | |
2999 Two causes have been seen for such problems. | |
3000 | |
3001 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined | |
3002 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong, | |
3003 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct | |
3004 value in the man page for a.out (5). | |
3005 | |
3006 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the | |
3007 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most | |
3008 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and | |
3009 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you | |
3010 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file. | |
3011 | |
3012 * Compilation errors on VMS. | |
3013 | |
3014 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are | |
3015 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters. | |
3016 This is not an error. Ignore it. | |
3017 | |
3018 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct | |
3019 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten. | |
3020 | |
3021 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters | |
3022 in conditional expressions. The bug is: | |
3023 char c = -1, d = 1; | |
3024 int i; | |
3025 | |
3026 i = d ? c : d; | |
3027 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the | |
3028 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such | |
3029 constructs in Emacs have been fixed. | |
3030 | |
3031 * rmail gets error getting new mail | |
3032 | |
3033 rmail gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program | |
3034 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using | |
3035 the protocol defined by /bin/mail. | |
3036 | |
3037 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses | |
3038 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file; | |
3039 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do | |
3040 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, | |
3041 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. | |
3042 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR | |
3043 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL! | |
3044 | |
3045 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions | |
3046 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail, | |
3047 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as | |
3048 `mail'. You can use these commands (as root): | |
3049 | |
3050 chgrp mail movemail | |
3051 chmod 2755 movemail | |
3052 | |
3053 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions | |
3054 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail, | |
3055 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as | |
3056 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the | |
3057 make install. | |
3058 | |
3059 chgrp mail movemail | |
3060 chmod 2755 movemail | |
3061 | |
3062 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an | |
3063 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The | |
3064 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory | |
3065 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and | |
3066 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build | |
3067 directory copy is ineffective. | |
3068 | |
3069 * Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen. | |
3070 | |
3071 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being | |
3072 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes | |
3073 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long | |
3074 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a | |
3075 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a | |
3076 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible | |
3077 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is | |
3078 easy, for a person with at least half a brain. | |
3079 | |
3080 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place: | |
3081 | |
3082 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control | |
3083 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use | |
3084 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible | |
3085 | |
3086 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether | |
3087 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to | |
3088 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an | |
3089 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off | |
3090 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow | |
3091 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on. | |
3092 | |
3093 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it | |
3094 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled | |
3095 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud | |
3096 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print | |
3097 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if | |
3098 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If | |
3099 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a | |
3100 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard | |
3101 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type. | |
3102 | |
3103 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just | |
3104 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control | |
3105 codes. You might as well try it. | |
3106 | |
3107 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer | |
3108 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the | |
3109 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how | |
3110 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow | |
3111 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard), | |
3112 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator | |
3113 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic | |
3114 measures can make Emacs semi-work. | |
3115 | |
3116 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system | |
3117 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x | |
3118 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are | |
3119 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x | |
3120 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow | |
3121 control handling.) | |
3122 | |
3123 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them | |
3124 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose | |
3125 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement | |
3126 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all | |
3127 other control characters are already used by emacs. | |
3128 | |
3129 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled, | |
3130 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in | |
3131 order to continue. | |
3132 | |
3133 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a | |
3134 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function | |
3135 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme | |
3136 automatically. Here is an example: | |
3137 | |
3138 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") | |
3139 | |
3140 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled | |
3141 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control | |
3142 manually. | |
3143 | |
3144 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the | |
3145 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow | |
3146 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad | |
3147 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming | |
3148 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some | |
3149 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I | |
3150 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake | |
3151 of inferior systems. | |
3152 | |
3153 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely. | |
3154 | |
3155 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow | |
3156 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your | |
3157 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator | |
3158 that wants to use flow control. | |
3159 | |
3160 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control. | |
3161 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without | |
3162 flow control, as described in the preceding section. | |
3163 | |
3164 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters | |
3165 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above | |
3166 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\. | |
3167 | |
3168 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net connection. | |
3169 | |
3170 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow | |
3171 control characters to the remote system to which they connect. | |
3172 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow | |
3173 control on the local system. | |
3174 | |
3175 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host | |
3176 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the | |
3177 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems, | |
3178 "stty start u stop u" will do this. | |
3179 | |
3180 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way | |
3181 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and | |
3182 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell. | |
3183 | |
3184 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type | |
3185 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or | |
3186 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the | |
3187 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind): | |
3188 | |
3189 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") | |
3190 | |
3191 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more | |
3192 info. | |
3193 | |
3194 * Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal. | |
3195 | |
3196 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that | |
3197 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing | |
3198 the combination of features specified for that terminal. | |
3199 | |
3200 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters | |
3201 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression | |
3202 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all | |
3203 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do | |
3204 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file | |
3205 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal. | |
3206 There are several possibilities: | |
3207 | |
3208 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual. | |
3209 | |
3210 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you | |
3211 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong. | |
3212 | |
3213 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect | |
3214 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way | |
3215 by termcap. | |
3216 | |
3217 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for | |
3218 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior | |
3219 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are | |
3220 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for | |
3221 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be | |
3222 tested on many kinds of terminals. | |
3223 | |
3224 3) The termcap entry is wrong. | |
3225 | |
3226 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes | |
3227 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries | |
3228 for certain terminals. | |
3229 | |
3230 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be | |
3231 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using. | |
3232 | |
3233 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed | |
3234 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c. | |
3235 | |
3236 * Output from Control-V is slow. | |
3237 | |
3238 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow. | |
3239 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails | |
3240 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen | |
3241 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after | |
3242 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast, | |
3243 it will scroll them to the top of the screen. | |
3244 | |
3245 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is | |
3246 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not | |
3247 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs | |
3248 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to | |
3249 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must | |
3250 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much | |
3251 time as the operations really take. | |
3252 | |
3253 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters | |
3254 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the | |
3255 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals | |
3256 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of | |
3257 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow | |
3258 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want | |
3259 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will | |
3260 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do | |
3261 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling | |
3262 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal. | |
3263 | |
3264 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting | |
3265 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the | |
3266 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have | |
3267 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should | |
3268 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines | |
3269 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap | |
3270 `cm' string. | |
3271 | |
3272 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal | |
3273 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These | |
3274 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument. | |
3275 | |
3276 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount | |
3277 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled. | |
3278 | |
3279 * Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm. | |
3280 | |
3281 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines: | |
3282 | |
3283 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f) | |
3284 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^? | |
3285 | |
3286 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127). | |
3287 | |
3288 * You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters. | |
3289 | |
3290 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear | |
3291 after a day or two. | |
3292 | |
3293 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by | |
3294 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another | |
3295 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion | |
3296 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to | |
3297 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming | |
3298 to it. | |
3299 | |
3300 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use, | |
3301 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand | |
3302 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well; | |
3303 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think | |
3304 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more | |
3305 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'. | |
3306 | |
3307 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion, | |
3308 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file: | |
3309 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char) | |
3310 You can probably access help-command via f1. | |
3311 | |
3312 * Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings. | |
3313 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem, | |
3314 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that | |
3315 causes it. | |
3316 | |
3317 There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system | |
3318 call in the RFS server. | |
3319 | |
3320 The first is that the fsync() call is handled as another name for the | |
3321 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very | |
3322 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files | |
3323 to make sure that the bits are on the disk. | |
3324 | |
3325 This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server. | |
3326 | |
3327 The second, more serious problem, is that fsync() is treated as a | |
3328 non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that | |
3329 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is | |
3330 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it | |
3331 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync | |
3332 is done) is a bad idea; unfortunately, changing it will break the RFS | |
3333 protocol. No fix was supplied for this problem. | |
3334 | |
3335 (as always, your line numbers may vary) | |
3336 | |
3337 % rcsdiff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c | |
3338 RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v | |
3339 retrieving revision 1.2 | |
3340 diff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c | |
3341 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987 | |
3342 --- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987 | |
3343 *************** | |
3344 *** 163,169 **** | |
3345 /* | |
3346 * No return sent for close or fsync! | |
3347 */ | |
3348 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close || syscall == RSYS_fsync) | |
3349 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]); | |
3350 else | |
3351 { | |
3352 --- 166,172 ---- | |
3353 /* | |
3354 * No return sent for close or fsync! | |
3355 */ | |
3356 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close) | |
3357 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]); | |
3358 else | |
3359 { | |
3360 | |
3361 * Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs. | |
3362 | |
3363 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs: | |
3364 | |
3365 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG | |
3366 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom | |
3367 | |
3368 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C. | |
3369 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct | |
3370 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending | |
3371 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes | |
3372 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled | |
3373 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files | |
3374 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine. | |
3375 | |
3376 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect | |
3377 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more | |
3378 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it | |
3379 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an | |
3380 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call: | |
3381 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3382 ... | |
3383 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)... | |
3384 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in | |
3385 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3386 Lisp_Object tem; | |
3387 ... | |
3388 tem = args[i]; | |
3389 ... foo (r, tem, ...)... | |
3390 causes the problem to go away. | |
3391 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects, | |
3392 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that. | |
3393 | |
3394 * 68000 C compiler problems | |
3395 | |
3396 Various 68000 compilers have different problems. | |
3397 These are some that have been observed. | |
3398 | |
3399 ** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses. | |
3400 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work | |
3401 if x is of type Lisp_Object. | |
3402 | |
3403 ** "cannot reclaim" error. | |
3404 | |
3405 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct | |
3406 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with | |
3407 simpler expressions. | |
3408 | |
3409 ** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code. | |
3410 | |
3411 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause. | |
3412 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code: | |
3413 | |
3414 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; }; | |
3415 | |
3416 lose (arg) | |
3417 struct foo arg; | |
3418 { | |
3419 test ((int *) arg.y); | |
3420 } | |
3421 | |
3422 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem. | |
3423 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with | |
3424 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int. | |
3425 | |
3426 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type | |
3427 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now. | |
3428 | |
3429 * C compilers lose on returning unions | |
3430 | |
3431 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type. | |
3432 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is | |
3433 defined as a union on some rare architectures. | |
3434 | |
3435 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type | |
3436 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. | |
3437 | |
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