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Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'. * lisp/env.el (setenv, getenv): Add optional terminal parameter. Update docs. (setenv): Handle `local-environment-variables'. (read-envvar-name): Also allow (and complete) local environment variables on the current terminal. * src/callproc.c: Include frame.h and termhooks.h, for terminal parameters. (Qenvironment): New constant. (Vlocal_environment_variables): New variable. (syms_of_callproc): Register and initialize them. (child_setup): Handle Vlocal_environment_variables. (getenv_internal): Add terminal parameter. Handle Vlocal_environment_variables. (Fgetenv_internal): Add terminal parameter. * src/termhooks.h (get_terminal_param): Declare. * src/Makefile.in (callproc.o): Update dependencies. * mac/makefile.MPW (callproc.c.x): Update dependencies. * lisp/termdev.el (terminal-id): Make parameter optional. (terminal-getenv, terminal-setenv, with-terminal-environment): Disable functions. * lisp/mule-cmds.el (set-locale-environment): Convert `terminal-getenv' calls to `getenv'. * lisp/rxvt.el (rxvt-set-background-mode): Ditto. * lisp/x-win.el (x-initialize-window-system): Ditto. * lisp/xterm.el (terminal-init-xterm): Ditto. * lisp/server.el (server-process-filter): Fix reference to the 'display frame parameter. git-archimport-id: lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-461
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10 editor or emacsclient for quick editing jobs from the console.
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85 major problems have been fixed, only a few minor issues remain. (It
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97 know if you succeed or fail to use it on other platforms---I'll have a
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98 few tricky test cases for you.
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105 displays at once. Current releases of GTK have limitations
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106 and bugs that prevent full-blown multi-display support in
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113 If your multi-tty Emacs session seems to be frozen, you
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114 probably have a recursive editing session or a pending
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116 another display. To unfreeze your session, switch to that
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117 display and complete the recursive edit, for example by
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118 pressing C-] (`abort-recursive-edit').
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120 I am sorry to say that currently there is no way to break
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122 you are unable to switch to the display that locks the
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123 others (for example because it is on a remote computer),
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124 then you can use emacsclient to break out of all recursive
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127 emacsclient -e '(top-level)'
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129 Note that this (perhaps) unintuitive behaviour is by design.
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130 Single-kboard mode is required because of an intrinsic Emacs
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134 I plan to implement better user notification and support for
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135 breaking out of single-kboard mode from locked displays.
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137 * Mac, Windows and DOS support is broken, doesn't even
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138 compile. Multiple display support will probably not provide
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139 new Emacs features on these systems, but the multi-tty
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140 branch changed a few low-level interfaces, and the
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141 system-dependent source files need to be adapted
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142 accordingly. The changes are mostly trivial, so almost
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143 anyone can help, if only by compiling the branch and
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144 reporting the compiler errors.
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147 HOW TO GET THE BRANCH
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148 ---------------------
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149
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150 The branch uses Bazaar 1 (http://bazaar.canonical.com) for version control.
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151
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152 Retrieving the latest version of the branch:
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154 baz register-archive -f http://aszt.inf.elte.hu/~lorentey/mirror/arch/2004
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155 baz get lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty <directory>
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157 This incantation uses an archive mirror that is hosted on a
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158 high-bandwidth site. Please note that on average there is a two-hour
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159 delay for commits to arrive on this mirror. My primary mirror is on the
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160 low-bandwidth http://lorentey.hu/ site:
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161
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162 baz register-archive -f http://lorentey.hu/arch/2004/
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163 baz get lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty <directory>
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164
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165 This is "instantly" updated, but very slow from outside Hungary.
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166 (By "instantly" I mean as soon as I connect the notebook I work on to
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167 a network. It could take days.)
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169 The Arch supermirror provides mirroring services for all public Arch
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170 repositories. We have a mirror there, too, if you prefer.
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171
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172 baz register-archive -f http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net/lorentey%40elte.hu--2004
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173 baz get lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty <directory>
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174
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175 My GPG key id is 0FB27A3F; it is available from
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176 hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net/, or from my homepage at
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177 http://lorentey.hu/rolam/gpg.html)
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179 Don't worry if the above checkout takes a few minutes to complete;
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180 once you have a source tree, updating it to the latest revision will
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181 be _much_ faster. Use the following command for the update:
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182
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183 baz replay
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184
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185 You can find more information about Bazaar on
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186 http://bazaar.canonical.com/. It's a distributed source control
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187 system that is somewhat less broken than competing projects.
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188
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189 If you don't have Bazaar, the branch has a homepage from which you can
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190 download conventional patches against Emacs CVS HEAD:
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191
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192 http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.html
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193
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194 I suggest you use Bazaar whenever feasible.
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195
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196
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197 DEBIAN PACKAGES
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198 ---------------
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199
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200 If you run Debian, or a distribution based on Debian, you are welcome
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201 to use our binary packages; put these lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
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202
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203 # Multi-tty Emacs
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204 deb http://aszt.inf.elte.hu/~lorentey/mirror/apt unstable multi-tty
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205 deb-src http://aszt.inf.elte.hu/~lorentey/mirror/apt unstable multi-tty
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207 Note that these packages are intended solely to provide an easy way to
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208 test the new multi-tty features. They are not to be taken as Emacs
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209 releases, and it's a mistake to expect robust operation or any kind of
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210 timely support for them. Do not install them, unless you'd like to
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211 have your editor crash on you.
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214 COMPILATION
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215 -----------
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216
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217 The multi-tty branch is compiled the same way as Emacs itself:
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219 make maintainer-clean # (If you have compiled Emacs before)
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221 ./configure --without-gtk <your favourite options>
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222 make bootstrap
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223 make install
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225 If you have strange compilation errors, they may be caused by old
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226 *.elc files that are left over from an earlier bootstrap. The `make
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227 maintainer-clean' target deletes them, so it is a good idea to run
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228 that before reporting a bug. (Emacs requires a clean recompilation
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229 after certain kinds of source code changes.)
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231 TESTING
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232 -------
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233
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234 To test the multi-tty branch, start up the Emacs server with the
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235 following commands:
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237 emacs
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238 M-x server-start
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240 and then (from a shell prompt on another terminal) start emacsclient
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241 with
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242 emacsclient -t /optional/file/names... (for a tty frame)
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245 (Make sure both emacs and emacsclient are multi-tty versions.)
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246 You'll hopefully have two fully working, independent frames on
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247 separate terminals. The new frame is closed automatically when you
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249 also works. Of course, you can create frames on more than two tty
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250 devices.
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251
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252 Creating new frames on the same tty with C-x 5 2 (make-frame-command)
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253 works, and they behave the same way as in previous Emacs versions. If
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254 you exit emacs, all terminals should be restored to their previous
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255 states.
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257 This is work in progress, and probably full of bugs. It is a good
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258 idea to run emacs from gdb, so that you'll have a live instance to
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259 debug if something goes wrong. Please send me your bug reports on our
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260 mailing list: multi-tty@lists.fnord.hu
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262 TIPS & TRICKS
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263 -------------
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265 I think the best way to use the new Emacs is to have it running inside
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266 a disconnected GNU screen session, and always use emacsclient for
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267 normal work. One advantage of this is that not a single keystroke of
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268 your work will be lost if the display device that you are using
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269 crashes, or the network connection times out, or whatever. (I had an
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270 extremely unstable X server for some time while I was developing these
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271 patches, and running Emacs this way has saved me a number of M-x
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272 recover-session invocations.)
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274 I use the following two bash scripts to handle my Emacs sessions:
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275
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276 -------------------------------------------------------connect-emacs--
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277 #!/bin/bash
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278 # Usage: connect-emacs <name> <args>...
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279 #
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280 # Connects to the Emacs instance called NAME. Starts up the instance
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281 # if it is not already running. The rest of the arguments are passed
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282 # to emacsclient.
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283
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284 name="$1"
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285 shift
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286
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287 if [ -z "$name" ]; then
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288 echo "Usage: connect_emacs <name> <args>..." >&2
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289 exit 1
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290 fi
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291 preload-emacs "$name" wait
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292 /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-multi-tty -s "$name" "$@"
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293 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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294
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295 -------------------------------------------------------preload-emacs--
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296 #!/bin/bash
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297 # Usage: preload-emacs <name> [<waitp>]
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298 #
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299 # Preloads the Emacs instance called NAME in a detached screen
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300 # session. Does nothing if the instance is already running. If WAITP
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301 # is non-empty, the function waits until the server starts up and
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302 # creates its socket; otherwise it returns immediately.
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304 name="$1"
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305 waitp="$2"
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306 screendir="/var/run/screen/S-$USER"
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307 serverdir="/tmp/emacs$UID"
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308 emacs=/usr/bin/emacs-multi-tty # Or wherever you installed your multi-tty Emacs
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309
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310 if [ -z "$name" ]; then
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311 echo "Usage: preload_emacs <name> [<waitp>]" >&2
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312 exit 1
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313 fi
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315 if [ ! -e "$screendir"/*."$name" ]; then
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316 if [ -e "$serverdir/$name" ]; then
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317 # Delete leftover socket (for the wait option)
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318 rm "$serverdir/$name"
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319 fi
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320 screen -dmS "$name" "$emacs" -nw --eval "(setq server-name \"$name\")" -f server-start
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321 fi
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322 if [ ! -z "$waitp" ]; then
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323 while [ ! -e "$serverdir/$name" ]; do sleep 0.1; done
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324 fi
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325 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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326
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327 I have the following in my profile to have two instances automatically
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328 preloaded for editing and email:
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329
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330 preload-emacs editor
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331 preload-emacs gnus
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332
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333 It is useful to set up short aliases for connect-emacs. I use the
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334 following:
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335
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336 alias edit="connect-emacs editor"
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337 alias e=edit
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338 alias et="connect-emacs editor -t"
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339 alias gnus="connect-emacs gnus"
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342 CHANGELOG
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343 ---------
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344
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345 See arch logs.
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347
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348 NEWS
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349 ----
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350
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351 For the NEWS file: (Needs much, much work)
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353 ** Support for multiple terminal devices has been added.
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354
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355 *** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
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356 type (`tty-type' parameter) to `make-terminal-frame'.
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358 *** You can test for the presence of multiple terminal support by
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359 testing for the `multi-tty' feature.
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360
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361 *** Emacsclient has been extended to support opening a new terminal
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362 frame. Its behaviour has been changed to open a new Emacs frame by
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363 default. Use the -c option to get the old behavior of opening
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364 files in the currently selected Emacs frame.
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366 *** A make-frame-on-tty function has been added to make it easier to
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367 create frames on new terminals.
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369 *** New functions: frame-tty-name, frame-tty-type, delete-tty,
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370 terminal-local-value, set-terminal-local-value
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372 terminal-id, terminal-parameters, terminal-parameter,
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373 set-terminal-parameter
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374
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375 *** New variables: global-key-translation-map
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376
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377 *** The keymaps key-translation-map and function-key-map are now
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378 terminal-local.
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379
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380 ** Support for simultaneous graphical and terminal frames has been
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
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381 added.
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382
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383 *** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a terminal
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parents: 83013
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384 session, and `make-frame-on-tty' works during a graphical session.
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
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385
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parents: 83013
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386 *** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local.
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parents: 83013
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387
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parents: 83013
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388 *** The new `initial-window-system' variable contains the
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parents: 83013
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389 `window-system' value for the first frame.
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parents: 83013
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390
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391 *** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support.
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392
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parents: 83412
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393 *** C-z now invokes `suspend-frame', C-x C-c now invokes
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394 `save-buffers-kill-frame'.
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395
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396 * * *
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397
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parents: 83203
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398 (The rest of this file consists of my development notes and as such it
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parents: 83203
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399 is probably not very interesting for anyone else.)
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400
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401 THINGS TO DO
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402 ------------
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fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
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403
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404 ** Trouble: `setenv' doesn't actually set environment variables in the
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405 Emacs process. This defeats the purpose of the elaborate
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parents: 83420
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406 `server-with-environment' magic around the `tgetent' call in
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parents: 83420
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407 `init_tty'. D'oh.
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408
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parents: 83417
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409 ** (Possibly) create hooks in struct device for creating frames on a
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parents: 83417
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410 specific terminal, and eliminate the hackish terminal-related frame
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parents: 83417
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411 parameters (display, tty, tty-type).
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412
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parents: 83417
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413 make_terminal_frame
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parents: 83417
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414 create_tty_output
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415
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parents: 83417
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416
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417 ** Move Fsend_string_to_terminal to term.c, and declare get_named_tty
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parents: 83417
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418 as static, removing it from dispextern.h.
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parents: 83417
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419 Move fatal to emacs.c and declare it somewhere.
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420
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parents: 83412
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421 ** Search for `suspend-emacs' references and replace them with
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parents: 83412
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422 `suspend-frame', if necessary. Ditto for `save-buffers-kill-emacs'
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parents: 83412
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423 vs. `save-buffers-kill-display'.
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83412
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424
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573105015a96 Work around Emacs crash on Konsole detach. (Tom Schutzer-Weissmann)
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parents: 83411
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425 ** Emacs crashes when a tty frame is resized so that there is no space
573105015a96 Work around Emacs crash on Konsole detach. (Tom Schutzer-Weissmann)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83411
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426 for all its windows. (Tom Schutzer-Weissmann)
573105015a96 Work around Emacs crash on Konsole detach. (Tom Schutzer-Weissmann)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83411
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427
83374
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
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428 ** Report GTK multi-display problems to GTK maintainers. For extra
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
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429 credit, fix them.
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
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430
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fea405284011 Prevent core dumps with GTK by disabling secondary X connections there.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83409
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431 Currently you can not connect to new X displays when you compile
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parents: 83409
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432 Emacs with GTK support. If you want to play around with GTK
fea405284011 Prevent core dumps with GTK by disabling secondary X connections there.
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parents: 83409
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433 multidisplay (and don't mind core dumps), you can edit src/config.h
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parents: 83409
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434 and define HAVE_GTK_MULTIDISPLAY there by hand.
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be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
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435
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parents: 83410
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436 ** Audit `face-valid-attribute-values' usage in customize and
c35ff18ca977 README updates.
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parents: 83410
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437 elsewhere. Its return value depends on the current window system.
c35ff18ca977 README updates.
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parents: 83410
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438 Replace static initializers using it with runtime functions. For
c35ff18ca977 README updates.
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parents: 83410
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439 example, custom's buttons are broken on non-initial device types.
c35ff18ca977 README updates.
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parents: 83410
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440
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
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441 ** Possibly turn off the double C-g feature when there is an X frame.
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
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442 C.f. (emacs)Emergency Escape.
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
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443
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parents: 83367
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444 ** frames-on-display-list should also accept frames.
83352
b258b3492423 Add two pending bugs to README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83350
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445
83378
3b40dd9f3d92 Fix assertion on kboard->kbd_queue and other such crashes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83374
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446 ** I smell something funny around pop_kboard's "deleted kboard" case.
3b40dd9f3d92 Fix assertion on kboard->kbd_queue and other such crashes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83374
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447 Determine what are the circumstances of this case, and fix any
3b40dd9f3d92 Fix assertion on kboard->kbd_queue and other such crashes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83374
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448 bug that comes to light.
3b40dd9f3d92 Fix assertion on kboard->kbd_queue and other such crashes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83374
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449
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83361
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450 ** Consider the `tty-type' frame parameter and the `display-tty-type'
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83361
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451 function. They serve the exact same purpose. I think it may be
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parents: 83361
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452 a good idea to eliminate one of them, preferably `tty-type'.
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83361
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453
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parents: 83328
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454 ** The handling of lisp/term/*.el, and frame creation in general, is a
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parents: 83328
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455 big, big mess. How come the terminal-specific file is loaded by
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parents: 83328
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456 tty-create-frame-with-faces? I don't think it is necessary to load
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parents: 83328
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457 these files for each frame; once per terminal should be enough.
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
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458 Update: lisp/term/*.el is not loaded repeatedly anymore, but
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
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459 faces.el still needs to be cleaned up.
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parents: 83328
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460
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parents: 83328
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461 ** Fix frame-set-background-mode in this branch. It was recently
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parents: 83328
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462 changed in CVS, and frame.el in multi-tty has not yet been adapted
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parents: 83328
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463 for the changes. (It needs to look at
83369
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parents: 83367
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464 default-frame-background-mode.) (Update: maybe it is fixed now;
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
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parents: 83367
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465 needs testing.)
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466
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parents: 83328
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467 ** I think `(set-)terminal-local-value' and the terminal parameter
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parents: 83328
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468 mechanism should be integrated into a single framework.
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parents: 83328
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469
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parents: 83417
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470 (Update: `(set-)terminal-local-value' is now eliminated, but the
521d3f18b3d1 Reimplement terminal parameters in C; clean up term.c, create terminal.c.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83417
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471 terminal-local variables should still be accessible as terminal
521d3f18b3d1 Reimplement terminal parameters in C; clean up term.c, create terminal.c.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83417
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472 parameters. This also applies to `display-name' and similar
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parents: 83417
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473 functions.)
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474
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parents: 83328
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475 ** Add the following hooks: after-delete-frame-hook (for server.el,
40c0ee282254 Implement rudimentary Lisp-level terminal parameters.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83328
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476 instead of delete-frame-functions),
40c0ee282254 Implement rudimentary Lisp-level terminal parameters.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83328
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477 after-delete-terminal-functions, after-create-terminal-functions.
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parents: 83328
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478
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
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479 ** Fix set-input-mode for multi-tty. It's a truly horrible interface;
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
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parents: 83300
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480 what if we'd blow it up into several separate functions (with a
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
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481 compatibility definition)?
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
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482
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
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483 ** BULK RENAME: The `display-' prefix of new Lisp-level functions
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
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484 conflicts with stuff like `display-time-mode'. Use `device-'
83328
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
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485 or `terminal-' instead. I think I prefer `terminal-'.
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
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486
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Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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487 It turns out that most of the offending Lisp functions were defined
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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488 in the trunk. Therefore, compatibility aliases should be defined
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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489 for the following names:
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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490
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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491 display-color-cells terminal-color-cells
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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492 display-color-p terminal-color-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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493 display-graphic-p terminal-graphic-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
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494 display-grayscale-p terminal-grayscale-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
495 display-images-p terminal-images-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
496 display-mm-height terminal-mm-height
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
497 display-mm-width terminal-mm-width
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
498 display-mouse-p terminal-mouse-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
499 display-multi-font-p terminal-multi-font-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
500 display-multi-frame-p terminal-multi-frame-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
501 display-pixel-height terminal-pixel-height
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
502 display-pixel-width terminal-pixel-width
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
503 display-pixels-per-inch terminal-pixels-per-inch
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
504 display-planes terminal-planes
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
505 display-popup-menus-p terminal-popup-menus-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
506 display-save-under terminal-save-under
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
507 display-screens terminal-screens
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
508 display-supports-face-attributes-p terminal-supports-face-attributes-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
509 display-visual-class terminal-visual-class
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
510 framep-on-display framep-on-terminal
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
511 frames-on-display-list frames-on-terminal-list
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
512
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
513 The following functions were introduced in the multi-tty branch, and
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
514 can be renamed without aliases:
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
515
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
516 display-controlling-tty-p terminal-controlling-tty-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
517 display-list terminal-list
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
518 display-live-p terminal-live-p
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
519 display-name terminal-name
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
520 display-tty-type terminal-tty-type
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
521 frame-display terminal-of-frame
83342
9216636c02fc Rename `struct display' to `struct device'. Update function, parameter and variable names accordingly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83340
diff changeset
522 delete-display delete-terminal
83340
f92ac4808cd4 README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83333
diff changeset
523
83230
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
524 ** The single-keyboard mode of MULTI_KBOARD is extremely confusing
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
525 sometimes; Emacs does not respond to stimuli from other keyboards.
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
526 At least a beep or a message would be important, if the single-mode
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
527 is still required to prevent interference. (Reported by Dan
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
528 Nicolaescu.)
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
529
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
530 Update: selecting a region with the mouse enables single_kboard
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
531 under X. This is very confusing.
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
532
83298
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
533 Update: After discussions with Richard Stallman, this will be
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
534 resolved by having locked displays warn the user to wait, and
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
535 introducing a complex protocol to remotely bail out of
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
536 single-kboard mode by pressing C-g.
83230
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
537
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
538 Update: Warning the user is not trivial to implement, as Emacs has
83298
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
539 only one echo area, shared by all frames. Ideally the warning
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
540 should not be displayed on the display that is locking the others.
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
541 Perhaps the high probability of user confusion caused by
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
542 single_kboard mode deserves a special case in the display code.
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
543 Alternatively, it might be good enough to signal single_kboard mode
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
544 by changing the modelines or some other frame-local display element
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
545 on the locked out displays.
83230
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
546
83350
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
547 ** The session management module is prone to crashes when the X
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
548 connection is closed and then later I try to connect to a new X
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
549 session:
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
550
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
551 #0 0xb7ebc806 in SmcGetIceConnection () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
552 #1 0x080e6641 in x_session_check_input (bufp=0xbf86c9c0) at xsmfns.c:144
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
553 #2 0x080d3bbc in XTread_socket (device=0xa722ff8, expected=1, hold_quit=0xbf86ca90) at xterm.c:7037
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
554 #3 0x080fa404 in read_avail_input (expected=1) at keyboard.c:6696
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
555 #4 0x080fa4ca in handle_async_input () at keyboard.c:6900
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
556 #5 0x080d51fa in x_term_init (display_name=162628899, xrm_option=0x0, resource_name=0x857068c "emacs") at xterm.c:10622
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
557 #6 0x080d920e in x_display_info_for_name (name=162628899) at xfns.c:3975
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
558 #7 0x080d92f9 in check_x_display_info (object=1) at xfns.c:274
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
559 #8 0x080d97b8 in Fx_create_frame (parms=151221485) at xfns.c:3016
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
560 #9 0x0815bf72 in Ffuncall (nargs=2, args=0xbf86ceec) at eval.c:2851
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
561
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
562 I installed a workaround to prevent this. The X session manager is
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
563 only contacted when the very first display in the Emacs session is
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
564 an X display. Also, x_delete_display() on this display aborts
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
565 session management, and XTread_socket only calls
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
566 x_session_check_input when it is called for the display that the
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
567 session was opened on. While this does not really fix the bug, it
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
568 makes it much less frequent, because session manager support will
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
569 not normally be enabled when Emacs can survive the shutdown of the
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
570 X server.
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
571
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
572 See if xsmfns.c should be updated.
e7d5238afe52 Work around crashes in X session management after normal shutdown of X server.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83345
diff changeset
573
83167
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
574 ** Hunt down display-related functions in frame.el and extend them all
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
575 to accept display ids.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
576
83230
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
577 ** rif->flush_display_optional (NULL) calls should be replaced by a
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
578 new global function.
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
579
83300
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
580 ** The set-locale-environment hack (adding the DISPLAY option) should
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
581 be replaced with a clean design.
83298
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
582
83300
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
583 ** standard-display-table should be display-local.
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
584 standard-display-european should be display-local.
83298
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
585
83328
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
diff changeset
586 ** With iswitchb-default-method set to 'always-frame, only frames on
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
diff changeset
587 the current display should be considered. This might involve
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
diff changeset
588 extending `get-buffer-window'.
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
diff changeset
589
83300
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
590 ** Have a look at Vlocale_coding_system. Seems like it would be a
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
591 tedious job to localize it, although most references use it for
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
592 interfacing with libc and are therefore OK with the global
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
593 definition.
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
594
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
595 Exceptions found so far: x-select-text and
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
596 x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value.
83298
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
597
83152
632f9d4fdffb README.multi-tty update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83148
diff changeset
598 ** Have a look at fatal_error_hook.
632f9d4fdffb README.multi-tty update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83148
diff changeset
599
83235
7950b2b0a56a README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83234
diff changeset
600 ** Have a look at set_frame_matrix_frame.
7950b2b0a56a README update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83234
diff changeset
601
83148
33462a853808 README.multi-tty update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83141
diff changeset
602 ** Check if we got term-setup-hook right.
33462a853808 README.multi-tty update.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83141
diff changeset
603
83234
ad592995fd24 Trivial changes in x_create_tip_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83230
diff changeset
604 ** I think tip_frame should be display-local.
ad592995fd24 Trivial changes in x_create_tip_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83230
diff changeset
605
ad592995fd24 Trivial changes in x_create_tip_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83230
diff changeset
606 ** Check display reference count handling in x_create_tip_frame.
ad592995fd24 Trivial changes in x_create_tip_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83230
diff changeset
607
83105
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
608 ** make-frame does not correctly handle extra parameters in its
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
609 argument:
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
610
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
611 (frame-parameter (make-frame (list (cons 'foobar 42))) 'foobar)
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
612 => nil
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
613
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
614 (This is likely an error in the CVS trunk.)
efc02a84dfbb Fix frame parameter handling in server.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83103
diff changeset
615
83055
e6b7cd8486dd README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83046
diff changeset
616 ** Dan Nicolaescu suggests that -nw should be added as an alias for -t
e6b7cd8486dd README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83046
diff changeset
617 in emacsclient. Good idea. (Alas, implementing this is not
e6b7cd8486dd README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83046
diff changeset
618 trivial, getopt_long does not seem to support two-letter ``short''
83409
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
619 options. Patches are welcome.)
83018
1465425fe2d3 Romain Francoise's and Ami Fischman's bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83014
diff changeset
620
83055
e6b7cd8486dd README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83046
diff changeset
621 ** Mark Plaksin suggests that emacsclient should accept the same
e6b7cd8486dd README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83046
diff changeset
622 X-related command-line arguments as Emacs. Most of the X-related
e6b7cd8486dd README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83046
diff changeset
623 argument-handling is done in Lisp, so this should be quite easy to
e6b7cd8486dd README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83046
diff changeset
624 implement.
83021
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
625
83076
5eaa708b8d47 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83074
diff changeset
626 ** Gergely Nagy suggests that C-x # should only kill the current
5eaa708b8d47 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83074
diff changeset
627 frame, not any other emacsclient frame that may have the same file
5eaa708b8d47 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83074
diff changeset
628 opened for editing. I think I agree with him.
5eaa708b8d47 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83074
diff changeset
629
83065
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
630 ** Very strange bug: visible-bell does not work on secondary
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
631 terminals in xterm and konsole. The screen does flicker a bit,
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
632 but it's so quick it isn't noticable.
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
633
83004
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
634 ** Move baud_rate to struct display.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
635
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
636 ** Implement support for starting an interactive Emacs session without
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
637 an initial frame. (The user would connect to it and open frames
83063
404175b0a47e README.multi-tty updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83055
diff changeset
638 later, with emacsclient.)
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
639
83118
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
640 ** Fix Mac support (I can't do this entirely myself). Note that the
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
641 current state of Mac-specific source files in the multi-tty tree
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
642 are not useful; before starting work on Mac support, revert to
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
643 pristine, pre-multi-tty versions.
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
644
83118
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
645 ** Fix W32 support (I can't do this entirely myself). Note that the
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
646 current state of W32-specific source files in the multi-tty tree
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
647 are not useful; before starting work on W32 support, revert to
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
648 pristine, pre-multi-tty versions.
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
649
83118
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
650 ** Fix DOS support (I can't do this entirely myself). Note that the
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
651 current state of DOS-specific source files in the multi-tty tree
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
652 are not useful; before starting work on DOS support, revert to
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
653 pristine, pre-multi-tty versions.
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
654
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
655 ** Do a grep on XXX and ?? for more issues.
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
656
83097
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
657 ** Understand Emacs's low-level input system (it's black magic) :-)
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
658 What exactly does interrupt_input do? I tried to disable it for
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
659 raw secondary tty support, but it does not seem to do anything
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
660 useful. (Update: Look again. X unconditionally enables this, maybe
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
661 that's why raw terminal support is broken again. I really do need
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
662 to understand input.)
83409
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
663 (Update: I am starting to understand the read_key_sequence->read-char
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
664 ->kbd_buffer_get_event->read_avail_input->read_socket_hook path. Yay!)
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
665
83391
e99392472e41 Change `keyboard-translate-table' to be terminal-local.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83387
diff changeset
666 ** flow-ctrl.el must be updated.
e99392472e41 Change `keyboard-translate-table' to be terminal-local.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83387
diff changeset
667
83328
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
diff changeset
668 ** Fix stuff_char for multi-tty. Doesn't seem to be of high priority.
f2eb4324cbaf Speed up loading of term/xterm.el (Dan Nicolaescu).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83325
diff changeset
669
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
670 DIARY OF CHANGES
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
671 ----------------
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
672
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
673 (ex-TODO items with explanations.)
53226
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
674
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
675 -- Introduce a new struct for terminal devices.
53226
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
676
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
677 (Done, see struct tty_output. The list of members is not yet
53226
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
678 complete.)
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
679
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
680 -- Change the bootstrap procedure to initialize tty_list.
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
681
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
682 (Done, but needs review.)
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
683
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
684 -- Change make-terminal-frame to support specifying another tty.
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
685
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
686 (Done, new frame parameters: `tty' and `tty-type'.)
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
687
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
688 -- Implement support for reading from multiple terminals.
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
689
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
690 (Done, read_avail_input tries to read from each terminal, until one
82989
f3845715a5f6 Separate frame-local, tty-dependent parameters from tty-local parameters.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82988
diff changeset
691 succeeds. MULTI_KBOARD is not used. Secondary terminals don't send
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
692 SIGIO!)
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
693
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
694 (Update: They do, now.)
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
695
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
696 (Update2: After enabling X, they don't.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
697
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
698 -- other-frame should cycle through the frames on the `current'
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
699 terminal only.
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
700
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
701 (Done, by trivially modifiying next_frame and prev_frame.)
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
702
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
703 -- Support different terminal sizes.
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
704
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
705 (Done, no problem.)
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
706
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
707 -- Make sure terminal resizes are handled gracefully. (Could be
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
708 problematic.)
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
709
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
710 (Done. We don't get automatic SIGWINCH for additional ttys,
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
711 though.)
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
712
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
713 -- Extend emacsclient to automatically open a new tty when it connects
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
714 to Emacs.
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
715
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
716 (Done. It's an ugly hack, needs more work.)
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
717
53234
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
718 -- Redisplay must refresh the topmost frame on *all* terminals, not
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
719 just the initial terminal.
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
720
53234
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
721 (Done, but introduced an ugly redisplay problems. Ugh.)
53229
33c3c7c16e13 lib-src/emacsclient.c: Implemented --here option (open a new Emacs tty). Needs more work.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53228
diff changeset
722
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
723 -- Fix redisplay problems.
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
724
53234
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
725 (Done; it turned out that the entire Wcm structure must be moved
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
726 inside tty_output. Why didn't I catch this earlier?)
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
727
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
728 -- Provide a way for emacsclient to tell Emacs that the tty has been
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
729 resized.
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
730
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
731 (Done, simply forward the SIGWINCH signal.)
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
732
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
733 -- Each keypress should automatically select the frame corresponding
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
734 to the terminal that it was coming from. This means that Emacs
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
735 must know from which terminal the last keyboard event came from.
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
736
53234
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
737 (Done, it was quite simple, the input event system already
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
738 supported multiple frames.)
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
739
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
740 -- Fix SIGIO issue with secondary terminals.
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
741
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
742 (Done, emacsclient signals Emacs after writing to the proxy pseudo
53234
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
743 terminal. Note that this means that multi-tty does not work with
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
744 raw ttys!)
53233
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
745
53341
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
746 (Update: This is bullshit. There is a read_input_waiting function,
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
747 extend that somehow.)
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
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parents: 53340
diff changeset
748
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
749 (Update of update: The first update was not right either, extending
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
750 read_input_waiting was not necessary. Secondary ttys do seem to
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
751 send signals on input.)
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
752
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
753 (Update^3: Not any more.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
754
53233
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
755 -- Make make-terminal-frame look up the `tty' and `tty-type' frame
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
756 parameters from the currently selected terminal before the global
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
757 default.
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
758
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
759 (Done.)
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
760
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
761 -- Put all cached terminal escape sequences into struct tty_output.
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
762 Currently, they are still stored in global variables, so we don't
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
763 really support multiple terminal types.
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
764
53234
f3b94bd26d21 Cosmetic changes in README.multi-tty
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53233
diff changeset
765 (Done. It was not fun.)
53233
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
766
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
767 -- Implement sane error handling after initialization. (Currently
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
768 emacs exits if you specify a bad terminal type.) The helpful error
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
769 messages must still be provided when Emacs starts.
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
770
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
771 (Done.)
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
772
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
773 -- Implement terminal deletion, i.e., deleting local frames, closing
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
774 the tty device and restoring its previous state without exiting
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
775 Emacs.
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
776
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
777 (Done, but at the moment only called when an error happens during
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
778 initialization. There is a memory corruption error around this
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
779 somewhere.) (Update: now it is fully enabled.)
53233
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
780
53236
e77dcb66ec84 Implemented automatic deletion of terminals.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53235
diff changeset
781 -- Implement automatic deletion of terminals when the last frame on
e77dcb66ec84 Implemented automatic deletion of terminals.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53235
diff changeset
782 that terminal is closed.
e77dcb66ec84 Implemented automatic deletion of terminals.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53235
diff changeset
783
e77dcb66ec84 Implemented automatic deletion of terminals.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53235
diff changeset
784 (Done.)
e77dcb66ec84 Implemented automatic deletion of terminals.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53235
diff changeset
785
53341
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
786 -- Restore tty screen after closing the terminal.
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
787
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
788 (Done, we do the same as Emacs 21.2 for all terminals.)
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
789
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
790 -- 'TERM=dumb src/emacs' does not restore the terminal state.
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
791
53341
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
792 (Done.)
53233
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
793
53343
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
794 -- C-g should work on secondary terminals.
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
795
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
796 (Done, but the binding is not configurable.)
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
797
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
798 -- Deal with SIGHUP in Emacs and in emacsclient. (After this, the
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
799 server-frames may be removed from server.el.)
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
800
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
801 (Done, nothing to do. It seems that Emacs does not receive SIGHUP
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
802 from secondary ttys, which is actually a good thing.) (Update: I
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
803 think it would be a bad idea to remove server-frames.)
53343
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
804
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
805 -- Change emacsclient/server.el to support the -t argument better,
53343
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
806 i.e. automatically close the socket when the frame is closed.
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
807
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
808 (Seems to be working OK.)
56e4b7166995 Make sure secondary frames are deleted when emacsclient quits.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53341
diff changeset
809
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
810 -- Fix mysterious memory corruption error with tty deletion. To
53233
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
811 trigger it, try the following shell command:
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
812
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
813 while true; do TERM=no-such-terminal-definition emacsclient -h; done
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
814
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
815 Emacs usually dumps core after a few dozen iterations. (The bug
83008
040dd41ed7d0 Hookified termcap devices, added bootstrap display device, plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83004
diff changeset
816 seems to be related to the xfreeing or bzeroing of
82986
02a346f99eaf Undo patch-23. I need a coffee.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82985
diff changeset
817 tty_output.Wcm. Maybe there are outside references to struct Wcm?
02a346f99eaf Undo patch-23. I need a coffee.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82985
diff changeset
818 Why were these vars collected into a struct before multi-tty
02a346f99eaf Undo patch-23. I need a coffee.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82985
diff changeset
819 support?)
53233
fe9b37bee5f7 Fully eliminated global tty state variables.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53232
diff changeset
820
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
821 (Done. Whew. It turned out that the problem had nothing to do
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
822 with hypothetical external references to Wcm, or any other
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
823 tty_output component; it was simply that delete_tty closed the
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
824 filehandles of secondary ttys twice, resulting in fclose doubly
83008
040dd41ed7d0 Hookified termcap devices, added bootstrap display device, plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83004
diff changeset
825 freeing memory. Utterly trivial matter. I love the C's memory
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
826 management, it puts hair on your chest.)
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
827
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
828 -- Support raw secondary terminals. (Note that SIGIO works only on
83008
040dd41ed7d0 Hookified termcap devices, added bootstrap display device, plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83004
diff changeset
829 the controlling terminal.) Hint: extend read_input_waiting for
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
830 multiple ttys and hopefully this will be fixed.
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
831
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
832 (Done, it seems to have been working already for some time. It
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
833 seems F_SETOWN does work, after all. Not sure what made it fail
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
834 earlier, but it seems to be fixed (there were several changes
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
835 around request_sigio, maybe one of them did it).
83008
040dd41ed7d0 Hookified termcap devices, added bootstrap display device, plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83004
diff changeset
836 read_input_waiting is only used in sys_select, don't change
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
837 it.) (Update: After adding X support, it's broken again.)
83097
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
838 (Update^2: No it isn't.) :-)
82983
21720c013048 Don't compile sys_select on systems that don't need it.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53343
diff changeset
839
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
840 -- Find out why does Emacs abort when it wants to close its
53341
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
841 controlling tty. Hint: chan_process[] array. Hey, maybe
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
842 noninterrupt-IO would work, too? Update: no, there is no process
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
843 for stdin/out.
53237
4f33c6fc9a1f README.multi-tty updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53236
diff changeset
844
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
845 (Done. Added add/delete_keyboard_wait_descriptor to
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
846 term_init/delete_tty. The hint was right, in a way.)
53232
22aaf1e5fbe6 Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53229
diff changeset
847
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
848 -- Issue with SIGIO: it needs to be disabled during redisplay. See if
83008
040dd41ed7d0 Hookified termcap devices, added bootstrap display device, plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83004
diff changeset
849 fcntl kernel behaviour could be emulated by emacsclient.
53341
d4e6a050c9b1 Bugfix festival.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 53340
diff changeset
850
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
851 (Done. Simply disabled the SIGIO emulation hack in emacsclient.)
83097
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
852 (Update: it was added back.) (Update^2: and removed again.)
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
853
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
854 -- server.el: There are issues with saving files in buffers of closed
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
855 clients. Try editing a file with emacsclient -f, and (without
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
856 saving it) do a delete-frame. The frame is closed without
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
857 question, and a surprising confirmation prompt appears in another
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
858 frame.
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
859
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
860 (Done. delete-frame now asks for confirmation if it still has
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
861 pending buffers, and modified buffers don't seem to be deleted.)
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
862
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
863 -- emacsclient.el, server.el: Handle eval or file open errors when
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
864 doing -t.
82987
1682917e56b4 Major bugfixes and slight enhancements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82986
diff changeset
865
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
866 (Done.)
82985
8d7be2534cbc Delete server frames on server restart.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82983
diff changeset
867
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
868 -- Make parts of struct tty_output accessible from Lisp. The device
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
869 name and the type is sufficient.
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
870
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
871 (Done, see frame-tty-name and frame-tty-type.)
82985
8d7be2534cbc Delete server frames on server restart.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82983
diff changeset
872
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
873 -- Export delete_tty to the Lisp environment, for emacsclient.
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
874
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
875 (Done, see delete-tty.)
82985
8d7be2534cbc Delete server frames on server restart.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82983
diff changeset
876
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
877 -- Get rid of the accessor macros in termchar.h, or define macros for
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
878 all members.
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
879
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
880 (Done.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
881
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
882 -- Move device-specific parameters (like costs) commonly used by
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
883 device backends to a common, device-dependent structure.
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
884
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
885 (Done. See struct display_method in termhooks.h.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
886
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
887 -- Fix X support.
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
888
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
889 (Done. Well, it seems to be working.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
890
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
891 -- Allow simultaneous X and tty frames. (Handling input could be
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
892 tricky. Or maybe not.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
893
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
894 (Done. Allowed, that is. It is currently extremely unstable, to
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
895 the point of being unusable. The rif variable causes constant
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
896 core dumps. Handling input is indeed tricky.)
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
897
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
898 -- Rewrite multi-tty input in terms of MULTI_KBOARD.
53226
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
899
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
900 (Done. In fact, there was no need to rewrite anything, I just
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
901 added a kboard member to tty_display_info, and initialized the
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
902 frame's kboard from there.)
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
903
82992
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
904 -- Fix rif issue with X-tty combo sessions. IMHO the best thing to do
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
905 is to get rid of that global variable (and use the value value in
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
906 display_method, which is guaranteed to be correct).
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
907
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
908 (Done, did exactly that. Core dumps during combo sessions became
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
909 much rarer. In fact, I have not yet met a single one.)
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
910
82997
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
911 -- Add multi-tty support to talk.el.
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
912
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
913 (Done.)
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
914
83004
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
915 -- Clean up the source of emacsclient. It is a mess.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
916
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
917 (Done, eliminated stupid proxy-pty kludge.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
918
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
919 -- Fix faces on tty frames during X-tty combo sessions. There is an
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
920 init_frame_faces call in init_sys_modes, see if there is a problem
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
921 with it.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
922
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
923 (Done, there was a stupid mistake in
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
924 Ftty_supports_face_attributes_p. Colors are broken, though.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
925
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
926 -- C-x 5 2, C-x 5 o, C-x 5 0 on an emacsclient frame unexpectedly
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
927 exits emacsclient. This is a result of trying to be clever with
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
928 delete-frame-functions.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
929
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
930 (Fixed, added delete-tty-after-functions, and changed server.el to
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
931 use it.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
932
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
933 -- Something with (maybe) multi-keyboard support broke function keys
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
934 and arrows on ttys during X+tty combo sessions. Debug this.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
935
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
936 (I can't reproduce it, maybe the terminal type was wrong.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
937
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
938 -- Fix input from raw ttys (again).
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
939
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
940 (Now it seems to work all right.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
941
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
942 -- During an X-tty combo session, a (message "Hello") from a tty frame
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
943 goes to the X frame. Fix this.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
944
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
945 (Done. There was a safeguard against writing to the initial
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
946 terminal frame during bootstrap which prevented echo_area_display
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
947 from working correctly on a tty frame during a combo session.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
948
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
949 -- If there are no frames on its controlling terminal, Emacs should
83097
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
950 exit if the user presses C-c there.
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
951
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
952 (Done, as far as possible. See the SIGTERM comment in
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
953 interrupt_signal on why this seems to be impossible to solve this
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
954 in general.)
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
955
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
956 -- During an X session, Emacs seems to read from stdin. Also, Emacs
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
957 fails to start without a controlling tty.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
958
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
959 (Fixed by replacing the troublesome termcap display with a dummy
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
960 bootstrap display during bootstrap.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
961
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
962 -- Do tty output through struct display, like graphical display
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
963 backends.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
964
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
965 (Done.)
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
966
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
967 -- Define an output_initial value for output_method for the initial
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
968 frame that is dumped with Emacs. Checking for this frame (e.g. in
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
969 cmd_error_internal) is ugly.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
970
83409
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
971 (Done, breaking interactive temacs.)
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
972
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
973 -- The command `emacsclient -t -e '(delete-frame)'' fails to exit.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
974
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
975 (Fixed.)
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
976
83012
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
977 -- frame-creation-function should always create a frame that is on the
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
978 same display as the selected frame. Maybe frame-creation-function
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
979 should simply be removed and make-frame changed to do the right
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
980 thing.
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
981
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
982 (Done, with a nice hack. frame-creation-function is now frame-local.)
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
983
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
984 -- Fix C-g on raw ttys.
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
985
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
986 (Done. I disabled the interrupt/quit keys on all secondary
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
987 terminals, so Emacs sees C-g as normal input. This looks like an
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
988 overkill, because emacsclient has extra code to pass SIGINT to
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
989 Emacs, so C-g should remain the interrupt/quit key on emacsclient
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
990 frames. See the next entry why implementing this distinction would
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
991 be a bad idea.)
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
992
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
993 -- Make sure C-g goes to the right frame with ttys. This is hard, as
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
994 SIGINT doesn't have a tty parameter. :-(
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
995
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
996 (Done, the previous change fixes this as a pleasant side effect.)
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
997
83013
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
998 -- I have seen a case when Emacs with multiple ttys fell into a loop
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
999 eating 100% of CPU time. Strace showed this loop:
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1000
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1001 getpid() = 30284
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1002 kill(30284, SIGIO) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1003 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) @ 0 (0) ---
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1004 ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [0]) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1005 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1006 ioctl(0, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1007 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1008 gettimeofday({1072842297, 747760}, NULL) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1009 gettimeofday({1072842297, 747806}, NULL) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1010 select(9, [0 3 5 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [5 6], left {0, 0})
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1011 select(9, [0 3 5 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [5 6], left {0, 0})
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1012 gettimeofday({1072842297, 748245}, NULL) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1013
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1014 I have seen something similar with a single X frame, but have not
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1015 been able to reproduce it for debugging.
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1016
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1017 Update: This may have been caused by checking for nread != 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1018 instead of nread > 0 after calling read_socket_hook in
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1019 read_avail_input.
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1020
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1021 (Fixed. This was caused by unconditionally including stdin in
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1022 input_wait_mask in init_process. The select call in
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1023 wait_reading_process_input always returned immediately, indicating
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1024 that there is pending input from stdin, which nobody read.
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1025
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1026 Note that the above strace output seems to be an unrelated but
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
1027 similar bug. I think that is now fixed.)
83012
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
1028
83014
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1029 -- Exiting Emacs while there are emacsclient frames doesn't restore the
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1030 ttys to their default states.
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1031
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1032 (This seems to be fixed by some previous change.)
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1033
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1034 -- Allow opening an X session after -nw.
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1035
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1036 (Done.)
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1037
83021
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1038 -- Fix color handling during tty+X combo sessions. (It seems that tty
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1039 sessions automatically convert the face colors to terminal colors
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1040 when the face is loaded. This conversion must happen instead on
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1041 the fly in write_glyphs, which might be problematic, as color
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1042 approximation is currently done in lisp (term/tty-colors.el).)
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1043 (Update: hm, colors seem to work fine if I start emacs with -nw and
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1044 then create an X frame. Maybe it's just a small buglet somewhere.)
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1045
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1046 (Seems to be fixed. The problem was in startup.el, it did not
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1047 initialize tty colors when the initial window system was
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
1048 graphical.)
83014
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
1049
83023
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
1050 -- emacs -nw --eval '(y-or-n-p "Foobar")' segfaults. (Reported by
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
1051 Romain Francoise)
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
1052
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
1053 (Fixed, there was a keyboard initialization problem.)
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
1054
83024
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
1055 -- Fix interactive use of temacs. There are face-related SEGVs, most
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
1056 likely because of changes in realize_default_face, realize_face.
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
1057
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
1058 (Fixed.)
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
1059
83028
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
1060 -- Don't exit Emacs when the last X connection fails during a
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
1061 multi-display session.
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
1062
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
1063 (Fixed.)
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
1064
83032
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
1065 -- Dan Nicolaescu noticed that starting emacsclient on the same
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
1066 terminal device that is the controlling tty of the Emacs process
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
1067 gives unexpected results.
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
1068
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
1069 (Fixed.)
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
1070
83035
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
1071 -- Istvan Marko reported that Emacs hang on ttys if it was started
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
1072 from a shell script.
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
1073
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
1074 (Fixed. There was a bug in the multi-tty version of
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
1075 narrow_foreground_group. tcsetpgrp blocks if it is called from a
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
1076 process that is not in the same process group as the tty.)
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
1077
83064
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1078 -- emacsclient -t from an Emacs term buffer does not work, complains
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1079 about face problems. This can even lock up Emacs (if the recursive
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1080 frame sets single_kboard). Update: the face problems are caused by
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1081 bugs in term.el, not in multi-tty. The lockup is caused by
83097
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
1082 single_kboard mode, and is not easily resolvable. The best thing to
83064
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1083 do is to simply refuse to create a tty frame of type `eterm'.
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1084
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1085 (Fixed, changed emacsclient to check for TERM=eterm. The face
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1086 complaints seem to be caused by bugs in term.el; they are not
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1087 related to multi-tty.)
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
1088
83065
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1089 -- Find out the best way to support suspending Emacs with multiple
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1090 ttys. My guess: disable it on the controlling tty, but from other
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1091 ttys pass it on to emacsclient somehow. (It is (I hope) trivial to
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1092 extend emacsclient to handle suspend/resume. A `kill -STOP' almost
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1093 works right now.)
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1094
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1095 (Done. I needed to play with signal handling and the server
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1096 protocol a bit to make emacsclient behave as a normal UNIX program
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1097 wrt foreground/background process groups.)
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
1098
83069
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
1099 -- There is a flicker during the startup of `emacs -nw'; it's as if
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
1100 the terminal is initialized, reset and then initialialized again.
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
1101 Debug this. (Hint: narrow_foreground_group is called twice during
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
1102 startup.)
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
1103
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
1104 (This is gone.)
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
1105
83084
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1106 -- Robert Chassell has found serious copy-paste bugs with the
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1107 multi-tty branch. There seem to be redisplay bugs while copying
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1108 from X to a terminal frame. Copying accented characters do not
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1109 work for me.
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1110
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1111 (Patch-124 should fix this, by changing the interprogram-*-function
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1112 variables to be frame-local, as suggested by Mark Plaksin
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1113 (thanks!). I think that the redisplay bugs are in fact not bugs,
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1114 but delays caused by single_kboard --> perhaps MULTI_KBOARD should
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1115 be removed.)
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1116
83118
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1117 -- frame-creation-function was removed, which might be a bad idea.
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1118 Think up a compatible solution.
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1119
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1120 (It was an internal interface that may be changed when necessary.)
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1121
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1122 -- Change Lisp code not to (getenv "TERM"); use the `tty-type' frame
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1123 parameter or the frame-tty-type function instead. (M-x tags-search
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1124 "TERM" helps with this.) Update: Actually, all getenv invocations
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1125 should be checked for multi-tty compatibility, and an interface
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1126 must be implemented to get the remote client's environment.
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1127
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1128 (Done. Only getenv calls in lisp/term/*.el were changed; other
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1129 calls should be mostly left as they are.)
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1130
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1131 -- Add an elaborate mechanism for display-local variables. (There are
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1132 already a few of these; search for `terminal-local' in the Elisp
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1133 manual.)
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1134
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1135 (Not needed. Display-local variables could be emulated by
7652900ea029 Fixed environment variable handling during terminal initialization.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83111
diff changeset
1136 frame-local variables.)
83084
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
1137
83132
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1138 -- Emacs assumes that all terminal frames have the same locale
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1139 settings as Emacs itself. This may lead to bogus results in a
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1140 multi-locale setup. (E.g., while logging in from a remote client
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1141 with a different locale.)
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1142 (Update after new bugreport by Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs:
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1143 (at least) the structs terminal_coding and keyboard_coding in
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1144 coding.c must be moved to struct display, and the Lisp interface
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1145 [set-]keyboard-coding-system must be adapted for the change.)
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1146
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1147 (Fixed. Emacs now uses the locale settings as seen by the
f982df4459a4 Update README.multi-tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83125
diff changeset
1148 emacsclient process for server tty frames.)
83298
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
1149 (Update: Not really; Vlocale_coding_system is still global.)
83167
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1150
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1151 -- Make `struct display' accessible to Lisp programs. Accessor functions:
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1152
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1153 (displayp OBJECT): Returns t if OBJECT is a display.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1154 => Implemented as display-live-p.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1155
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1156 (display-list): Returns list of currently active displays.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1157 => Implemented.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1158
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1159 (selected-display): Returns the display object of the selected frame.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1160 => Not strictly necessary, but implemented anyway.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1161
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1162 (frame-display FRAME): Returns the display object of FRAME.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1163 => Implemented.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1164
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1165 (display-frames DISPLAY): Returns a list of frames on DISPLAY.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1166 => Already implemented, see frames-on-display-list.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1167
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1168 (display-type DISPLAY): Returns the type of DISPLAY, as a
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1169 symbol. (See `framep'.)
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1170 => Implemented as display-live-p.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1171
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1172 (display-device DISPLAY): Returns the name of the device that
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1173 DISPLAY uses, as a string. (E.g: "/dev/pts/16", or
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1174 ":0.0")
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1175 => Implemented as display-name.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1176
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1177 etc.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1178
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1179 See next issue why this is necessary.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1180
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1181 (Update: The consensus on emacs-devel seems to be to do this via
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1182 integer identifiers. That's fine by me.)
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1183
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1184 (Done.)
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1185
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1186 -- The following needs to be supported:
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1187
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1188 $ emacsclient -t
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1189 C-z
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1190 $ emacsclient -t
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1191 (This fails now.)
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1192
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1193 The cleanest way to solve this is to allow multiple displays on the
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1194 same terminal device; each new emacsclient process should create
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1195 its own display. As displays are currently identified by their
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1196 device names, this is not possible until struct display becomes
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1197 accessible as a Lisp-level object.
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1198
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1199 (Done.)
69ebc75cb461 Implemented display ids for multiple emacsclients on the same tty. Plus assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83161
diff changeset
1200
83230
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1201 -- Miles Bader suggests that C-x C-c on an emacsclient frame should
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1202 only close the frame, not exit the entire Emacs session. Update:
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1203 see above for a function that does this. Maybe this should be the
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1204 new default?
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1205
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1206 (Done. This is the new default. No complaints so far.)
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1207
83298
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
1208 -- Clean up the frame-local variable system. I think it's ugly and
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
1209 error-prone. But maybe I just haven't yet fully understood it.
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
1210
ed09a89e2b25 Fix UTF-8 tty input when first frame is an X frame. Steps towards multiple tty locale support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83282
diff changeset
1211 (Nothing to do. It doesn't seem ugly any more. It's rather clever.)
83230
d8738586aaec Remove remaining references to updating_frame.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83220
diff changeset
1212
83300
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1213 -- Support multiple character locales. A version of
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1214 `set-locale-environment' needs to be written for setting up
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1215 display-local settings on ttys. I think calling
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1216 set-display-table-and-terminal-coding-system and
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1217 set-keyboard-coding-system would be enough. The language
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1218 environment itself should remain a global setting.
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1219
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1220 (Done, by an ugly hack.)
6deb860255f3 Support for ttys with different character locale settings.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83298
diff changeset
1221
83318
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1222 -- The terminal customization files in term/*.el tend to change global
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1223 parameters, which may confuse Emacs with multiple displays. Change
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1224 them to tweak only frame-local settings, if possible. (They tend
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1225 to call define-key to set function key sequences a lot.)
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1226
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1227 (Done, by making `function-key-map' terminal-local (i.e., part of
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1228 struct kboard). This has probably covered all the remaining problems.)
666b48e39a5a Work around mysterious breakage of arrow key recognition under screen (see first TODO in README).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83300
diff changeset
1229
83325
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1230 -- Make `function-key-map' and `key-translation-map' terminal-local.
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1231
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1232 (Done.)
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1233
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1234 -- Implement `terminal-local-value' and `set-terminal-local-value' to
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1235 allow deterministic access to terminal local bindings. The
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1236 encode-kb package can not set up `key-translation-map' without
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1237 these. The terminal-local bindings seem to be independent of what
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1238 frame is selected.
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1239
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1240 (Done.)
83369
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
diff changeset
1241
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
diff changeset
1242 -- xt-mouse.el needs to be adapted for multi-tty. It currently
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
diff changeset
1243 signals an error on kill-emacs under X, which prevents the user
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
diff changeset
1244 from exiting Emacs. (Reported by Mnemonikk on freenode.)
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
diff changeset
1245
d2e0850b17f2 Make xt-mouse.el multi-tty-compatible.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83367
diff changeset
1246 (Done, I hope.)
83362
c3dd82172ed1 Enforce the presence of `window-system' and `tty-type' frame parameters in all frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83361
diff changeset
1247
83325
9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83318
diff changeset
1248
83373
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1249 -- Having {reset,init}_all_sys_modes in set-input-mode breaks arrow
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1250 keys on non-selected terminals under screen, and sometimes on other
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1251 terminal types as well. The other function keys continue to work
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1252 fine. Sometimes faces on these screens become garbled.
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1253
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1254 This only seems to affect displays that are of the same terminfo
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1255 type as the selected one. Interestingly, in screen Emacs normally
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1256 reports the up arrow key as `M-o A', but after the above SNAFU, it
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1257 complains about `M-[ a'. UNIX ttys are a complete mystery to me,
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1258 but it seems the reset-reinitialize cycle somehow leaves the
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1259 non-selected terminals in a different state than usual. I have no
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1260 idea how this could happen.
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1261
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1262 Currently set-input-mode resets only the currently selected
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1263 terminal, which seems to somehow work around the problem.
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1264
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1265 Update:
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1266
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1267 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1268 > Some terminals have 2 modes for cursor keys: Application Mode where
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1269 > the cursor keys transmit the codes defined in the terminfo entry, and
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1270 > Cursor mode. Applications have to send the smkx and rmkx terminfo
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1271 > strings to switch between the 2 modes. So Emacs (and emacsclient) have
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1272 > to send smkx when initializing and rmkx when quitting (or on
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1273 > suspend).
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1274
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1275 (I think patch-370 fixed this.)
35ba943c8399 Set Emacs version number to 22.0.51 to allow parallel installations of CVS trunk and the multi-tty branch.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83371
diff changeset
1276
83374
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1277 -- This long-standing bug (first reported by Han Boetes) seems to come
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1278 and go all the time. It is time to track it down and fix it.
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1279
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1280 emacs
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1281 M-x server-start
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1282
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1283 # From another xterm:
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1284 emacsclient -e '(y-or-n-p "Do you want me to crash? ")'
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1285 # Notice how the answer ends up in the *scratch* buffer
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1286 M-x garbage-collect
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1287 SIGSEGV
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1288
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1289 (Fixed in patch-414 after detailed analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
0b75ace4f7ad Fix crash after y-or-n-p prompt triggered by emacsclient. (Reported by Han Boetes, analysis by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83373
diff changeset
1290
83387
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
diff changeset
1291 -- normal-erase-is-backspace-mode in simple.el needs to be updated for
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
diff changeset
1292 multi-tty (rep. by Dan Waber). (The Delete key is broken on X
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
diff changeset
1293 because of this.)
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
diff changeset
1294
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
diff changeset
1295 (Fixed in patch-427.)
0181341f0aca Fix Delete key on X by adapting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode for multi-tty. (Reported by Dan Waber and Dan Nicolaescu.)
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83378
diff changeset
1296
83391
e99392472e41 Change `keyboard-translate-table' to be terminal-local.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83387
diff changeset
1297 -- I think keyboard-translate-table should be made terminal-local.
e99392472e41 Change `keyboard-translate-table' to be terminal-local.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83387
diff changeset
1298
e99392472e41 Change `keyboard-translate-table' to be terminal-local.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83387
diff changeset
1299 (Done in patch-431.)
e99392472e41 Change `keyboard-translate-table' to be terminal-local.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83387
diff changeset
1300
83396
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1301 -- The semantics of terminal-local variables are confusing; it is not
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1302 clear what binding is in effect in any given time. See if
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1303 current_kboard (or at least the terminal-local bindings exported to
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1304 Lisp) might be changed to be tied to the selected frame instead.
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1305 Currently, `function-key-map' and `key-translation-map' may be
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1306 accessed reliably only using the hackish
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1307 `(set-)terminal-local-value' functions.
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1308
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1309 Perhaps there should be a difference between `last-command' &co.
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1310 and these more conventional configuration variables.
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1311 (E.g. `symbol-value' would use current_kboard to access
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1312 `last-command', but SELECTED_FRAME()->display->kboard to get the
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1313 value of `function-key-map'.
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1314
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1315 (Fixed in patch-434.)
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1316
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1317 -- If the first key pressed on a new tty terminal is a function key,
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1318 it is not recognized correctly. May be related to the bug below.
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1319
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1320 (Seems to have been fixed as a side effect of patch-434. "The bug
83409
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
1321 below" was the set-input-mode madness.)
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
1322
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
1323 (Update: this bug was fixed for good in patch-449. It was tracked
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
1324 down to a bug in `read_key_sequence': it failed to reinitialize its
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
1325 local function-key-map/key-translation-map references when it
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
1326 switched keyboards. I don't understand why did this bug only
be1f74bffc1d Fix "first non-ASCII character on new tty frames" problem.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83396
diff changeset
1327 appear on brand new frames, though!)
83396
201f610eb492 Update frames-on-display-list to accept terminal id numbers.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83391
diff changeset
1328
83410
fea405284011 Prevent core dumps with GTK by disabling secondary X connections there.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83409
diff changeset
1329 -- Disable connecting to a new X display when we use the GTK toolkit.
fea405284011 Prevent core dumps with GTK by disabling secondary X connections there.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83409
diff changeset
1330
fea405284011 Prevent core dumps with GTK by disabling secondary X connections there.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83409
diff changeset
1331 (Disabled in patch-450.)
fea405284011 Prevent core dumps with GTK by disabling secondary X connections there.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83409
diff changeset
1332
83421
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1333 -- Implement automatic forwarding of client environment variables to
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1334 forked processes, as discussed on the multi-tty list. Terminal
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1335 parameters are now accessible in C code, so the biggest obstacle is
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1336 gone. The `getenv_internal' and `child_setup' functions in
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1337 callproc.c must be changed to support the following variable:
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1338
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1339 terminal-local-environment-variables is a variable defined in ...
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1340
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1341 Enable or disable terminal-local environment variables.
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1342
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1343 If set to t, `getenv', `setenv' and subprocess creation
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1344 functions use the environment variables of the emacsclient
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1345 process that created the selected frame, ignoring
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1346 `process-environment'.
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1347
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1348 If set to nil, Emacs uses `process-environment' and ignores
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1349 the client environment.
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1350
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1351 Otherwise, `terminal-local-environment-variables' should be a
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
diff changeset
1352 list of variable names (represented by Lisp strings) to look
bb2edc915032 Implement automatic terminal-local environment variables via `local-environment-variables'.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83420
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1353 up in the client environment. The rest will come from
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1354 `process-environment'.
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1355
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1356 (Implemented in patch-461; `terminal-getenv', `terminal-setenv' and
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1357 `with-terminal-environment' are now replaced by extensions to
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parents: 83420
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1358 `getenv' and `setenv', and the new `local-environment-variables'
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parents: 83420
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1359 facility. Yay!)
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parents: 83420
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1360
53226
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
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1361 ;;; arch-tag: 8da1619e-2e79-41a8-9ac9-a0485daad17d
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9e41c80c6389 Work around nondeterministic binding of terminal-local variables. (Fixes national character input on ttys.)
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