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1 This file describes various problems that have been encountered
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2 in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.
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4 * Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.
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6 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
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7 of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released
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8 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those
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9 dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1
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10 around Sep 30 2001. The preprocessor in those versions is
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11 incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into
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12 ". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent
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13 directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make
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14 variables).
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16 The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
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17 `-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically
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18 when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some
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19 unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional',
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20 run the script like this:
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22 CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ...
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24 (replace the ellipsis "..." with any additional arguments you pass to
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25 the script).
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27 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
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28 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.
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29
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30 * Building Emacs with a system compiler fails to link because of an
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31 undefined symbol such as __eprintf which does not appear in Emacs.
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33 This can happen if some of the libraries linked into Emacs were built
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34 with GCC, but Emacs itself is being linked with a compiler other than
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35 GCC. Object files compiled with GCC might need some helper functions
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36 from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system
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37 compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the
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38 link stage.
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40 A solution is to link with GCC, like this:
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41
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42 make CC=gcc
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44 Since the .o object files already exist, this will not recompile Emacs
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45 with GCC, but just restart by trying again to link temacs.
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47 * Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.
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49 Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
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50 version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be
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51 necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define
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52 __MSVCRT__, like so:
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54 configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
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56 * Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
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58 The error message might be something like this:
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59
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60 Converting d:/emacs-21.3/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
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61 Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary
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62 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code
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63 '0xffffffff'
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64 Stop.
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66 This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program
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67 which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The
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68 `*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line
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69 endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code
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70 or EOL conversions.
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71
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72 The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not
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73 change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has
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74 in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe'
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75 which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without
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76 mangling them.
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78 * Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux.
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80 The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical
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81 C backtrace printed by GDB:
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83 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
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84 (gdb) where
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85 #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
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86 #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray ()
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87 #2 0x18b3500 in main ()
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88 #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc,
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89
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90 This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base
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91 of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this,
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92 but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks
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93 other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to
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94 distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of
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95 GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the
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96 following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs
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97 distribution:
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98
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99 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog,
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100 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
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101 know what's really going on here. */
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102 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
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103 0x10000000. */
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104 #if defined __linux__
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105 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
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106 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
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107 #endif
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108 #endif
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109 #endif /* 0 */
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111 Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save
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112 the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process
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113 should now succeed.
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114
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115 * JPEG images aren't displayed.
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117 This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library.
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118 Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem.
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120 * Building `ctags' for MS-Windows with the MinGW port of GCC fails.
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121
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122 This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which
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123 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following
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124 patch to assert.h should solve this:
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125
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126 *** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999
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128 ***************
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129 *** 41,47 ****
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130 /*
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131 * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
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132 */
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133 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0);
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135 #else /* debugging enabled */
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138 /*
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139 * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
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140 */
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141 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0)
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143 #else /* debugging enabled */
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147 * Improving performance with slow X connections
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149 If you don't need X Input Methods (XIM) for entering text in some
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150 language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by
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151 configuring Emacs with option `--without-xim'. Configuring Emacs
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152 without XIM does not affect the use of Emacs' own input methods, which
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155 If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider
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156 switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar.
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158 * Getting a Meta key on the FreeBSD console
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160 By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on
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161 FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the
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162 current keymap to a file with the command
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164 $ kbdcontrol -d >emacs.kbd
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166 Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the
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167 definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows''
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169 to look like this
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171 105 meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta O
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173 to make the Windows key the Meta key. Load the new keymap with
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175 $ kbdcontrol -l emacs.kbd
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177 * Emacs' xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal.
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179 A symptom of this bug is that double-clicks insert a control sequence
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180 into the buffer. The reason this happens is an apparent
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181 incompatibility of the Gnome terminal with Xterm, which also affects
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182 other programs using the Xterm mouse interface. A problem report has
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183 been filed.
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185 * Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font
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187 This has been reported for fvwm 2.2.5 and the window manager of KDE
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188 2.1. The reason for the pause is Xt waiting for a ConfigureNotify
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189 event from the window manager, which the window manager doesn't send.
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190 Xt stops waiting after a default timeout of usually 5 seconds.
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192 A workaround for this is to add something like
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194 emacs.waitForWM: false
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196 to your X resources. Alternatively, add `(wait-for-wm . nil)' to a
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197 frame's parameter list, like this:
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199 (modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))
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201 (this should go into your `.emacs' file).
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203 * Underlines appear at the wrong position.
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205 This is caused by fonts having a wrong UNDERLINE_POSITION property.
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206 Examples are the font 7x13 on XFree prior to version 4.1, or the jmk
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207 neep font from the Debian xfonts-jmk package. To circumvent this
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208 problem, set x-use-underline-position-properties to nil in your
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209 `.emacs'.
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211 To see what is the value of UNDERLINE_POSITION defined by the font,
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212 type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION
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213 property.
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216 click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This
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217 is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the
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221 XawM and the few other derivatives of Xaw. So when you compile with
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222 one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one.
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223 For example, strange problems, such as Emacs exiting when you type
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224 "C-x 1", were reported when Emacs compiled with Xaw3d and libXaw was
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225 used with neXtaw at run time.
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227 The solution is to rebuild Emacs with the toolkit version you actually
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228 want to use, or set LD_PRELOAD to preload the same toolkit version you
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229 built Emacs with.
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231 * Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window.
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233 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know
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234 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured
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235 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
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237 * Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'.
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239 This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the
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240 terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo.
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241 If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your
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242 version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses
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243 and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this.
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245 All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the
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246 problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses
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247 terminfo when built.
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249 * Error messages about undefined colors on X.
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250
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251 The messages might say something like this:
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253 Unable to load color "grey95"
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254
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255 (typically, in the `*Messages*' buffer), or something like this:
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256
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257 Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow)
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258
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259 These problems could happen if some other X program has used up too
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260 many colors of the X palette, leaving Emacs with insufficient system
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261 resources to load all the colors it needs.
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262
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263 A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs.
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264
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265 * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
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266
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267 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal
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268 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database
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269 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the
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270 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are
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271 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within
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272 Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system
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273 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is
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274 "colors".
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275
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276 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for
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277 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal
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278 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not
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279 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry
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280 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape
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281 sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make
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282 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op"
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283 capability).
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284
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285 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which
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286 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability
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287 incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting
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288 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps.
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289
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290 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value
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291 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal
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292 entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to
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293 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible
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294 emulator.
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295
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296 Beginning with version 21.3, Emacs supports the --color command-line
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297 option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular
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298 modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up
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299 for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors.
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300
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301 Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
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302 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
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303 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The
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304 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x
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305 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable
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306 `global-font-lock-mode'.
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308 * Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block.
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309
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310 This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use
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311 ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well.
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312 These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where
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313 the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c"
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314 (show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a
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315 blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character
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316 cell. This blinking cannot be stopped, since a hardware cursor
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317 always blinks.
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318
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319 A work-around is to redefine the "cvvis" capability so that it
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320 enables a *software* cursor. The software cursor works by inverting
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321 the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block
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322 cursor that doesn't blink. For this to work, you need to redefine
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323 the "cnorm" capability as well, so that it operates on the software
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324 cursor instead of the hardware cursor.
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325
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326 To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file
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327 `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send
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328 the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to
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329 produce a modified terminfo entry.
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330
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331 Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor,
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332 change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command.
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333
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334 * Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.
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335
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336 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif
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337 emulation for which it is set up.
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338
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339 Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif.
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340 Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD.
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341 On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure
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342 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most
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343 successful. The binary GNU/Linux package
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344 lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with
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345 menu placement.
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347 On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally
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348 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know
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349 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs
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350 developers.
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351
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354 Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu
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355 is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not
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356 displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is
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357 synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while
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358 waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or
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359 pop-up menu interaction.
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360
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361 Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text
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362 for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows.
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363
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364 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
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365 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first
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366 frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame
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367 after moving back into it.
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369 Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although
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370 not as severely as in 21.1.
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372 Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null
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373 characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.
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375 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
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376 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.
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377
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378 Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2). Some
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379 of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded
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380 in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
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382 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
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383 you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate
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384 the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs
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385 ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
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386 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
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387 yet.)
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388
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389 Multilingual text put into the Windows clipboard by other Windows
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390 applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.2). This
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391 is because Windows uses Unicode to represent multilingual text, but
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392 Emacs does not yet support Unicode well enough to decode it. This
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393 means that Emacs can only interchange non-ASCII text with other
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394 Windows programs if the characters are in the system codepage.
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395 Reportedly, a partial solution is to install the Mule-UCS package and
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396 set selection-coding-system to utf-16-le-dos.
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397
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398 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated
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399 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
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400 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system
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401 library function.
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402
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403 * The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
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405 There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker
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406 by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by
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407 default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'.
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408
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409 If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the
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410 `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a
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411 shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun
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412 the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library.
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413 Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file
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414 explicitly.
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415
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416 (If you need the static version of the jpeg library as well, configure
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417 libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared' options.)
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418
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419 * Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
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420
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421 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system
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422 (RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris
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423 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that
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424 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the
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425 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is
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426 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping
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427 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped
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428 Emacs executable to fail with the above message.
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429
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430 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the
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431 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make
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432 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future).
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433 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems.
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434
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435 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05
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436 (Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if
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437 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can
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438 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the
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439 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB
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440 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the
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441 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount
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442 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as
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443 `/etc/auto.home'.
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444
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445 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for
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446 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case,
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447 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
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448 to work around the problem.
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449
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450 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory
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451 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and
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452 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the
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453 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble:
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454
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455 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted...
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456
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457 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
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458
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459 * Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run.
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460
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461 This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted
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462 via NFS. Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of
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463 binary null characters, and the `file' utility says:
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464
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465 emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators
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466
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467 We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to
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468 build Emacs in a directory on a local disk.
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469
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470 * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.
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471
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472 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with
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473 other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software
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474 that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font
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475 size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts
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476 when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean
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477 fonts have this bug in some versions of X.
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478
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479 To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this:
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480
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481 xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
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482
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483 If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the
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484 problem.
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485
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486 The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate
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487 `fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run
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488 `xset fp rehash'.
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489
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490 * Large file support is disabled on HP-UX. See the comments in
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491 src/s/hpux10.h.
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492
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493 * Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version
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494 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1.
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496 Beginning with version 21.3, Emacs refuses to link against libungif
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497 whose version is 4.1.0 or older (the `configure' script behaves as if
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498 libungif were not available at all).
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499
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500 * Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in incorrect faces.
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501
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502 By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace
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503 `{' in column zero. Font Lock assumes that such a paren is outside of
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504 any comment or string. This is of course not true in general, but the
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505 vast majority of well-formatted program source files don't have such
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506 parens, and therefore this assumption is used to allow optimizations
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507 in Font Lock's syntactical analysis. These optimizations avoid some
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508 pathological cases where jit-lock, the Just-in-Time fontification
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509 introduced with Emacs 21.1, could significantly slow down scrolling
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510 through the buffer, especially scrolling backwards, and also jumping
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parents: 39231
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511 to the end of a very large buffer.
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
512
43230
a938ccc00d6e Tell about the parent-on-column-zero highlighting.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43116
diff changeset
513 Beginning with version 21.3, a parenthesis or a brace in column zero
43389
7f7c01afd770 Clarify that the paren in column zero is highlighted only inside
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43304
diff changeset
514 is highlighted in bold-red face if it is inside a string or a comment,
7f7c01afd770 Clarify that the paren in column zero is highlighted only inside
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43304
diff changeset
515 to indicate that it could interfere with Font Lock (and also with
7f7c01afd770 Clarify that the paren in column zero is highlighted only inside
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43304
diff changeset
516 indentation) and should be moved or escaped with a backslash.
43230
a938ccc00d6e Tell about the parent-on-column-zero highlighting.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43116
diff changeset
517
39315
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
518 If you don't use large buffers, or have a very fast machine which
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
519 makes the delays insignificant, you can avoid the incorrect
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
520 fontification by setting the variable
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
521 `font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function' to a nil value. (This must
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
522 be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.)
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
523
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
524 Another alternative is to avoid a paren in column zero. For example,
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
525 in a Lisp string you could precede the paren with a backslash.
311556cdc15a Document Font Lock problems with parens in column zero.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39231
diff changeset
526
41893
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
527 * When running on KDE, colors or fonts are not as specified for Emacs,
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
528 or messed up.
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
529
42167
7d43b2a3529d Update location of Windows Emacs FAQ.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 41893
diff changeset
530 For example, you could see background you set for Emacs only in the
41893
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
531 empty portions of the Emacs display, while characters have some other
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
532 background.
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
533
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
534 This happens because KDE's defaults apply its color and font
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
535 definitions even to applications that weren't compiled for KDE. The
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
536 solution is to uncheck the "Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps"
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
537 option in Preferences->Look&Feel->Style.
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
538
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
539 Alternatively, if you do want the KDE defaults to apply to other
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
540 applications, but not to Emacs, you could modify the file `Emacs.ad'
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
541 (should be in the `/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/' directory)
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
542 so that it doesn't set the default background and foreground only for
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
543 Emacs. For example, make sure the following resources are either not
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
544 present or commented out:
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
545
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
546 Emacs.default.attributeForeground
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
547 Emacs.default.attributeBackground
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
548 Emacs*Foreground
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
549 Emacs*Background
79a843a71f03 Add an entry about fonts and colors problems on KDE.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41892
diff changeset
550
35729
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
551 * Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
552
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
553 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
554 MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
555 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
556 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
557 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.)
bc965ab08080 Document problems with the MS-Windows port of v21.1 and with
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35677
diff changeset
558
43933
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
559 * Dired is very slow.
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
560
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
561 This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
562 time. Possible reasons for this include:
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
563
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
564 - ClearCase mounted filesystems (VOBs) that sometimes make `df'
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
565 response time extremely slow (dozens of seconds);
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
566
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
567 - slow automounters on some old versions of Unix;
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
568
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
569 - slow operation of some versions of `df'.
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
570
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
571 To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
572 `directory-free-space-program' to nil, and thus prevent Emacs from
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
573 invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
574 (c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase.
3147736a801d Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43868
diff changeset
575
39231
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
576 * Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
577
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
578 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
579 due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
580 and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
581 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
582 are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
583 confuses ange-ftp.
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
584
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
585 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
586 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock
42759
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
587 Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' or 'C:\WINNT'
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
588 directory. To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
589 variable `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
590 client's executable. For example:
39231
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
591
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
592 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe")
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
593
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
594 If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
595 this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file:
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
596
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
597 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "")
a3c2d52350d6 Document problems with ange-ftp in the Windows port and the Cygwin FTP client.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39069
diff changeset
598
43304
f32c4ea712c8 Fixes from Dave Love for W3 and PSGML entries.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43275
diff changeset
599 * Some versions of the W3 package released before Emacs 21.1 don't run
f32c4ea712c8 Fixes from Dave Love for W3 and PSGML entries.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43275
diff changeset
600 properly with Emacs 21. These problems are fixed in W3 version
f32c4ea712c8 Fixes from Dave Love for W3 and PSGML entries.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43275
diff changeset
601 4.0pre.47.
35152
320f1445907b *** empty log message ***
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35139
diff changeset
602
34494
c9772e95b9c1 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 34387
diff changeset
603 * On AIX, if linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you
c9772e95b9c1 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 34387
diff changeset
604 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If
c9772e95b9c1 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 34387
diff changeset
605 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure
c9772e95b9c1 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 34387
diff changeset
606 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
c9772e95b9c1 *** empty log message ***
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 34387
diff changeset
607
42228
b968543600c1 Document problems with AIX's /bin/c89 compiler and with old versions
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42167
diff changeset
608 * Compiling on AIX 4.3.x or 4.4 fails.
42229
0340f1accfdf Fix last change.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42228
diff changeset
609
42233
50052f8ef824 Fix typo.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42229
diff changeset
610 This could happen if you use /bin/c89 as your compiler, instead of
42228
b968543600c1 Document problems with AIX's /bin/c89 compiler and with old versions
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42167
diff changeset
611 the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign
b968543600c1 Document problems with AIX's /bin/c89 compiler and with old versions
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42167
diff changeset
612 redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution
b968543600c1 Document problems with AIX's /bin/c89 compiler and with old versions
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42167
diff changeset
613 is to use the default compiler `cc'.
b968543600c1 Document problems with AIX's /bin/c89 compiler and with old versions
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42167
diff changeset
614
43304
f32c4ea712c8 Fixes from Dave Love for W3 and PSGML entries.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 43275
diff changeset
615 * Old versions of the PSGML package use the obsolete variables
34387
30fe602d7443 *** empty log message ***
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 34001
diff changeset
616 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no
42667
d397806da81a Fix typo.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42618
diff changeset
617 longer used by Emacs. Please use PSGML 1.2.3 or later.
41248
74f8ac2c0480 Re-add section "TeX'ing the Calc manual fails".
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41247
diff changeset
618
43696
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
619 * PSGML conflicts with sgml-mode.
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
620
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
621 PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like keymap)
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
622 as built-in sgml-mode.el because it was created as a replacement
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
623 of that package. The conflict will be shown if you load
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
624 sgml-mode.el before psgml.el. E.g. this could happen if you edit
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
625 HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML file. html-mode
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
626 (from sgml-mode.el) is used for HTML file and loading of psgml.el
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
627 (for sgml-mode or xml-mode) will cause an error.
4f4870cb475a Mention psgml possible problems.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 43629
diff changeset
628
42785
3ff0fcbfdfa9 Mention possible problems with ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 1.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42759
diff changeset
629 * The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2.
3ff0fcbfdfa9 Mention possible problems with ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 1.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42759
diff changeset
630
3ff0fcbfdfa9 Mention possible problems with ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 1.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42759
diff changeset
631 It can fail to work with ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 1.
3ff0fcbfdfa9 Mention possible problems with ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 1.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42759
diff changeset
632 Version 1 of OpenLDAP is now deprecated. If you are still using it,
3ff0fcbfdfa9 Mention possible problems with ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 1.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42759
diff changeset
633 please upgrade to version 2. As a temporary workaround, remove
3ff0fcbfdfa9 Mention possible problems with ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 1.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42759
diff changeset
634 argument "-x" from the variable `ldap-ldapsearch-args'.
3ff0fcbfdfa9 Mention possible problems with ldapsearch from OpenLDAP version 1.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 42759
diff changeset
635
38012
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37770
diff changeset
636 * Unicode characters are not unified with other Mule charsets.
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37770
diff changeset
637
3bf93c45de95 Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37770
diff changeset
638 As of v21.1, Emacs charsets are still not unified. This means that
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639 characters which belong to charsets such as Latin-2, Greek, Hebrew,
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640 etc. and the same characters in the `mule-unicode-*' charsets are
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641 different characters, as far as Emacs is concerned. For example, text
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642 which includes Unicode characters from the Latin-2 locale cannot be
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643 encoded by Emacs with ISO 8859-2 coding system; and if you yank Greek
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644 text from a buffer whose buffer-file-coding-system is greek-iso-8bit
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645 into a mule-unicode-0100-24ff buffer, Emacs won't be able to save that
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646 buffer neither as ISO 8859-7 nor as UTF-8.
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647
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648 To work around this, install some add-on package such as Mule-UCS.
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649
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650 * Problems when using Emacs with UTF-8 locales
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651
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652 Some systems, including recent versions of GNU/Linux, have terminals
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653 or X11 subsystems that can be configured to provide Unicode/UTF-8
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654 input and display. Normally, such a system sets environment variables
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655 such as LANG, LC_CTYPE, or LC_ALL to a string which ends with a
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656 `.UTF-8'. For example, a system like this in a French locale might
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657 use `fr_FR.UTF-8' as the value of LANG.
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658
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659 Since Unicode support in Emacs, as of v21.1, is not yet complete (see
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660 the previous entry in this file), UTF-8 support is not enabled by
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661 default, even in UTF-8 locales. Thus, some Emacs features, such as
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662 non-ASCII keyboard input, might appear to be broken in these locales.
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663 To solve these problems, you need to turn on some options in your
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664 `.emacs' file. Specifically, the following customizations should make
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665 Emacs work correctly with UTF-8 input and text:
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666
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667 (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
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668 (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
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669 (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
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670 (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
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671 (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
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672
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673 * The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.
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674
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675 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
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676 slots now. If the built-in Unicode/UTF-8 support is insufficient,
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677 e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package.
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678 Any files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode won't be read
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679 correctly by Emacs 21.
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680
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681 * Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error.
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682
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683 The error message might be something like this:
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684
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685 "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"
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686
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687 This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a
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688 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch
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689 for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3
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690 corrects that.
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691
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692 * ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps.
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693
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694 This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it
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695 defines compatibility functions which trick ps-print into thinking it
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696 runs in XEmacs, and look for the prologue files in a wrong directory.
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697
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698 The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version.
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699
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700 * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors
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701 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some
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702 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support.
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703 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared
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704 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker.
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705
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706 Similar problems could prevent Emacs from building, since the build
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707 process invokes Emacs several times.
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708
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709 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your
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710 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries
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711 can be found.
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712
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713 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before
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714 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a
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715 specified run-time search path in the executable.
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716
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717 On some systems, Emacs can crash due to problems with dynamic
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718 linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with
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719 backtraces like this:
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720
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721 (dbx) where
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722 0 strcmp(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) ["/xlv22/ficus-jan23/work/irix/lib/libc/libc_n32_M3_ns/strings/strcmp.s":35, 0xfb7e480]
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723 1 general_find_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2)
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724 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":2140, 0xfb65a98]
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725 2 resolve_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x0, 0xfbdd438, 0x0, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2)
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726 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":1947, 0xfb657e4]
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727 3 lazy_text_resolve(0xd18, 0x1a3, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2)
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728 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":997, 0xfb64d44]
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729 4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
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730 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld_bridge.s":175, 0xfb6032c]
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731
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732 (`rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know yet why this
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733 happens, but setting the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to 1 (which
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734 forces the dynamic linker to bind all shared objects early on) seems
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735 to work around the problem.
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736
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737 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details.
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738
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739 * On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
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740 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
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741 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
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742 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
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743 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
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744 and the default CFLAGS.
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745
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746 * Compiling syntax.c with the OPENSTEP 4.2 compiler gcc 2.7.2.1 fails.
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747
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748 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the
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749 following message:
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750
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751 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
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752
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753 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD,
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754 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3
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755 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example:
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756
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757 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from)
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758 {
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759 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from));
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760 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/
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761
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762 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c
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parents: 38058
diff changeset
763 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward.
bef7906aca9a Document problems with OPENSTEP's gcc. Provide a work-around.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38058
diff changeset
764
39464
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
765 * Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts.
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
766
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
767 A typical error message might be something like
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
768
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
769 No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
770
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
771 This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
772 Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
773 are:
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
774
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
775 - in your ~/.Xdefaults file
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
776
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
777 - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
778 /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
779 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
780
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
781 One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
782 fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
783 the problematic line(s) and correct them.
b1091e5046d0 Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39463
diff changeset
784
38135
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
785 * Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup.
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
786
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
787 The typical error message might be like this:
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
788
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
789 "Cannot open load file: fontset"
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
790
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
791 This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
792 tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
793 files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
794 Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later,
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
795 when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
796 required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and
44152
cd705768cbe9 Fix typo.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 44111
diff changeset
797 it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.)
38135
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
798
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
799 Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
800 file could fail to load if it is compressed.
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
801
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
802 The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
803 file.
f4830f2d181b Document problems with compressed subdirs.el.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38061
diff changeset
804
41697
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
805 Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
806 lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
807 print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path:
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
808
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
809 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
810
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
811 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale,
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
812 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
813 load-path.
48f16a4dc7fe Another reason for failures related to fontset.elc.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41613
diff changeset
814
41793
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
815 * Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version.
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
816
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
817 An example of such an error is:
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
818
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
819 x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
820
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
821 This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your classpath.
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
822 The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
823 present in load-path:
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
824
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
825 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
826
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
827 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale,
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
828 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
829 load-path.
1adf81b0d0e4 Added stale load-path problems.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 41697
diff changeset
830
37633
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
831 * Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails.
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
832
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
833 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
834 representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the
41365
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
835 ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
836 version 2.4.3, with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
837 systems as well. To avoid this problem, switch to using the standard
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
838 ftp client. On a Debian system, type
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
839
0b508d916f80 Remove already applied calc info patches. Clarify that there is no
Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
parents: 41319
diff changeset
840 update-alternatives --config ftp
37633
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
841
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
842 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp.
fa0afa395c91 Document problems with lukemftp.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37510
diff changeset
843
43275
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
844 * Emacs built on Windows 9x/ME crashes at startup on Windows XP,
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
845 or Emacs built on XP crashes at startup on Windows 9x/ME.
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
846
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
847 There appear to be general problems running programs compiled on
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
848 Windows 9x/ME on Windows XP and vice-versa, at least when compilation
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
849 is done with MSVC 6.0. This affects other programs as well as Emacs.
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
850 The compatibility options in the program properties on Windows XP may
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
851 help in some cases.
edb30cdd9c57 Add notes about cross-compiling between Windows XP and 9x/ME.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 43230
diff changeset
852
38919
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
853 * Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
854
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
855 The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
856 work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET"
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
857 was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
858 work when an antivirus package is installed.
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
859
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
860 The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
861 mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
862 or disable it entirely.
047a58ae4054 Document the problems with MS-Windows antivirus problems.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38914
diff changeset
863
33614
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
864 * On Windows 95/98/ME, subprocesses do not terminate properly.
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
865
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
866 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
867 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
868 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at
42167
7d43b2a3529d Update location of Windows Emacs FAQ.
Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
parents: 41893
diff changeset
869 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/.
33614
9c067a999061 Added note about subprocesses on Windows 9x.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 33455
diff changeset
870
42821
449c8f0630dd Wording changes suggested by Richard Stallman.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42792
diff changeset
871 * Windows 95/98/ME crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs.
449c8f0630dd Wording changes suggested by Richard Stallman.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42792
diff changeset
872
449c8f0630dd Wording changes suggested by Richard Stallman.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42792
diff changeset
873 When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH,
42759
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
874 Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In
42792
ff6514dbd1ce Fix a typo.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42789
diff changeset
875 particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java
42854
ce3a2be6003b Fix a typo.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42841
diff changeset
876 program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system
42792
ff6514dbd1ce Fix a typo.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42789
diff changeset
877 PATH.
42759
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
878
33455
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
879 * Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
880 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
881 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
882 seen.
f100c284e81e Exchange mail mangling.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31514
diff changeset
883
38580
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
884 * After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs, the Meta key stops working.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
885
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
886 This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
887 Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
888 modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
889 keyboard where the Windows key is the one which produces the Meta
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
890 modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
891 was not hacked by Mandrake, expected the Alt key to continue to act as
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
892 Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
893
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
894 The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
895 modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
896 and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
897 which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
898 the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
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899 modifier:
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
900
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
901 xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt"
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
902
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
903 A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
904 is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system:
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
905
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
906 xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
907
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
908 This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
909 keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
910 keys can serve as Meta.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
911
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
912 The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
913 keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them.
446aa2cd256e More information about how to find the Meta keys.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38558
diff changeset
914
31514
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
915 * On OSF/Dec Unix/Tru64/<whatever it is this year> under X locally or
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
916 remotely, M-SPC acts as a `compose' key with strange results. See
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
917 keyboard(5).
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
918
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
919 Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it:
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
920 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L'
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
921 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R'
2c900086fb10 OSF M-SPC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 31378
diff changeset
922
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
923 * Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
924
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
925 Install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this problem should go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
926 It is possible that this problem results from upgrading the operating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
927 system without reinstalling GCC; so you could also try reinstalling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
928 the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
929
39466
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
930 * Emacs dumps core on Solaris in function IMCheckWindow.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
931
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
932 This was reported to happen when Emacs runs with more than one frame,
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
933 and one of them is closed, either with "C-x 5 0" or from the window
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
934 manager.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
935
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
936 This bug was reported to Sun as
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
937
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
938 Gtk apps dump core in ximlocal.so.2:IMCheckIMWindow()
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
939 Bug Reports: 4463537
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
940
39467
7d3bfda9bf1d Fix last change.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39466
diff changeset
941 Installing Solaris 8 patch 108773-12 for Sparc and 108774-12 for x86
39466
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
942 reportedly fixes the bug, which appears to be inside the shared
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
943 library xiiimp.so.
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
944
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
945 Alternatively, you can configure Emacs with `--with-xim=no' to prevent
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
946 the core dump, but will loose X input method support, of course. (You
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
947 can use Emacs's own input methods instead, if you install Leim.)
580933cf6f05 Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 39465
diff changeset
948
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
949 * On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
950
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
951 This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
952 assembler) if you use GCC version 2.7 or later.
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
953 To work around it, either install patch 106950-03 or later,
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
954 or uninstall patch 107058-01, or install the GNU Binutils.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
955 Then recompile Emacs, and it should work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
956
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
957 * With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
958
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
959 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
960
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
961 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
962 +++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
963 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
964 -/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
965 +/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
966 /******************************************************************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
967
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
968 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
969 @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
970 _XimMakeImName(lcd)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
971 XLCd lcd;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
972 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
973 - char* begin;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
974 - char* end;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
975 + char* begin = NULL;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
976 + char* end = NULL;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
977 char* ret;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
978 int i = 0;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
979 char* ximmodifier = XIMMODIFIER;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
980 @@ -182,7 +182,11 @@
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
981 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
982 ret = Xmalloc(end - begin + 2);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
983 if (ret != NULL) {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
984 - (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
985 + if (begin != NULL) {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
986 + (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
987 + } else {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
988 + ret[0] = '\0';
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
989 + }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
990 ret[end - begin + 1] = '\0';
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
991 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
992 return ret;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
993
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
994
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
995 * Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
997 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
999 * Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1000
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1001 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1002 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1003
34880
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1004 * The S-C-t key combination doesn't get passed to Emacs on X.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1005
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1006 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1007 combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1008 definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1009 might be other similar combinations which are grabbed by X for similar
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1010 purposes.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1011
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1012 We think that this can be countermanded with the `xmodmap' utility, if
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1013 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs.
40a2c6e62cee Document the problems with S-C-t on X.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 34721
diff changeset
1014
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1015 * On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1016 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1017
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1018 You can fix this by editing the file:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1019
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1020 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1021
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1022 Near the bottom there is a line that reads:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1023
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1024 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1025
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1026 that should read:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1027
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1028 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1029
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1030 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1031
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1032 * Emacs on Digital Unix 4.0 fails to build, giving error message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1033 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1034
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1035 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1036 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1037
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1038 * Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1039
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1040 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1041 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1042 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1043
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1044 * Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1045
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1046 These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1047 particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1048 configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1049 configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1050 change this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1051
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1052 * When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1053
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1054 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1055 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1056 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1057 correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1058 gives the appearance of "double spacing".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1059
43116
3c64eaf60ff7 Minor updates about libungif and Exceed 6.x.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42913
diff changeset
1060 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1061 feature (in the font part of the configuration window).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1062
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1063 * Failure in unexec while dumping emacs on Digital Unix 4.0
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1064
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1065 This problem manifests itself as an error message
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1066
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1067 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1068
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1069 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1070 were built for an older system version,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1071
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1072 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1073
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1074 made the problem go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1075
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1076 * No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1077
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1078 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1079 as of 8 Dec 1998.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1080
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1081 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1082
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1083 * As of version 20.4, Emacs doesn't work properly if configured for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1084 the Motif toolkit and linked against the free LessTif library. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1085 next Emacs release is expected to work with LessTif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1086
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1087 * Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1088
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1089 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1090 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1091 likely to cause it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1092
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1093 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1094
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1095 * Emacs makes HPUX 11.0 crash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1096
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1097 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1098
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diff changeset
1099 * Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine (HPUX 10.20).
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parents:
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1100
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1101 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1.
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parents:
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1102
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parents:
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1103 * The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1104 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1105 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1106 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1107
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1108 * Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1109 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1110 Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1111 earlier versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1112
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1113 --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1
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parents:
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1114 +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00
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parents:
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1115 @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti
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parents:
diff changeset
1116 (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil))
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parents:
diff changeset
1117 (cond
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parents:
diff changeset
1118 ((stringp entity) ; a file name
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parents:
diff changeset
1119 - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1120 + (insert-file-contents entity)
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parents:
diff changeset
1121 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity)))
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parents:
diff changeset
1122 ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id?
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parents:
diff changeset
1123 (let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity))
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parents:
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1124
35907
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1125 * Emacs 21 freezes when visiting a TeX file with AUC TeX installed.
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1126
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1127 Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUC TeX; upgrading should solve
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1128 these problems.
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1129
41319
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1130 * No colors in AUC TeX with Emacs 21.
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1131
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1132 Upgrade to AUC TeX version 10 or later, and make sure it is
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1133 byte-compiled with Emacs 21.
e6b8eb3755a7 What to do when AUC TeX don't fontify.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 41248
diff changeset
1134
35907
1dc1345e8325 Document problems with AUC TeX and Emacs 21.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 35871
diff changeset
1135 * Running TeX from AUC TeX package with Emacs 20.3 gives a Lisp error
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1136 about a read-only tex output buffer.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1137
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1138 This problem appeared for AUC TeX version 9.9j and some earlier
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1139 versions. Here is a patch for the file tex-buf.el in the AUC TeX
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1140 package.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1141
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1142 diff -c auctex/tex-buf.el~ auctex/tex-buf.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1143 *** auctex/tex-buf.el~ Wed Jul 29 18:35:32 1998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1144 --- auctex/tex-buf.el Sat Sep 5 15:20:38 1998
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1145 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1146 *** 545,551 ****
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parents:
diff changeset
1147 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1148 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1149 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1150 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1151 (set-buffer buffer)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1152 (if dir (cd dir))
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parents:
diff changeset
1153 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1154 - --- 545,552 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1155 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1156 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1157 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1158 ! (let (temp-buffer-show-function temp-buffer-show-hook)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1159 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1160 (set-buffer buffer)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1161 (if dir (cd dir))
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1162 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1163
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1164 * On Irix 6.3, substituting environment variables in file names
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1165 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1166
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1167 Substituting nonexistent environment variable ""
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1168
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1169 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1170 003082 August 11, 1998.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1171
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1172 * After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1174 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1175 (standard-display-european t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1176 That should be changed to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1177 (standard-display-european 1 t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1178
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1179 * Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1180
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1181 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1182 supplies the `install-info' command.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1183
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1184 * Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key, on HPUX.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1185
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1186 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1187 rights, containing this text:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1188
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1189 --------------------------------
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1190 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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parents:
diff changeset
1191 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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parents:
diff changeset
1192 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1193 EOF
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parents:
diff changeset
1194
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1195 xmodmap - << EOF
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parents:
diff changeset
1196 clear mod1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1197 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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parents:
diff changeset
1198 add mod1 = Meta_L
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1199 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1200 add mod2 = Mode_switch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1201 EOF
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1202 --------------------------------
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1203
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1204 * Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed.
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1205
38279
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1206 This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1207 requests the X clipboard contents from applications. Early versions
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1208 of klipper don't implement the ICCM protocol for large selections,
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1209 which leads to Emacs being flooded with selection requests. After a
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1210 while, Emacs will print a message:
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1211
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1212 Timed out waiting for property-notify event
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1213
38279
1ded478b3fda Clarify what's the problem with KDE's klipper applet.
Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
parents: 38277
diff changeset
1214 A workaround is to not use `klipper'.
38058
647c8404a670 Document problems with KDE's klipper.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38054
diff changeset
1215
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1216 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1217 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1218 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1219
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1220 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1221 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1222 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1223
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1224 * M-SPC seems to be ignored as input.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1226 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1227 for character composition.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1228
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1229 * Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1230
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1231 This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1232 full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1233 /etc/hosts file, something like this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1234
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1235 127.0.0.1 localhost
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1236 129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1237
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1238 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1239
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1240 * Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs on Digital Unix 4.0.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1241
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1242 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1243 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1244 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1245 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1246 in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1247
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1248 * When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1249
38026
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1250 This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1251 characters only and then try to use it from Emacs with non-ASCII
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1252 characters, like Latin-1. The solution is to recompile Ispell with
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1253 support for 8-bit characters.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1254
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1255 To see whether your Ispell program supports 8-bit characters, type
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1256 this at your shell's prompt:
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1257
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1258 ispell -vv
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1259
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1260 and look in the output for the string "NO8BIT". If Ispell says
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1261 "!NO8BIT (8BIT)", your speller supports 8-bit characters; otherwise it
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1262 does not.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1263
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1264 To rebuild Ispell with 8-bit character support, edit the local.h file
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1265 in the Ispell distribution and make sure it does _not_ define NO8BIT.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1266 Then rebuild the speller.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1267
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1268 Another possible cause for "misalignment" error messages is that the
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1269 version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade.
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1270
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1271 Yet another possibility is that you are trying to spell-check a word
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1272 in a language that doesn't fit the dictionary you choose for use by
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1273 Ispell. (Ispell can only spell-check one language at a time, because
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1274 it uses a single dictionary.) Make sure that the text you are
ad9617225b8d Clarify the causes for "misalignment" error messages in Ispell.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38012
diff changeset
1275 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1276
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1277 * On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1278 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1279
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1280 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1281 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1282 known to work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1283
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1284 * On Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1285 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1286
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1287 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1288
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1289 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1290 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1291 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1292 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
42759
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
1293 AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
1294 to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1295
45083
67007e5c6b03 Advise not to use Exceed 6.1.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 44929
diff changeset
1296 * Emacs crashes when using the Exceed 6.0 X server
67007e5c6b03 Advise not to use Exceed 6.1.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 44929
diff changeset
1297
67007e5c6b03 Advise not to use Exceed 6.1.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 44929
diff changeset
1298 If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was
67007e5c6b03 Advise not to use Exceed 6.1.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 44929
diff changeset
1299 reported to prevent the crashes.
67007e5c6b03 Advise not to use Exceed 6.1.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 44929
diff changeset
1300
67007e5c6b03 Advise not to use Exceed 6.1.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 44929
diff changeset
1301 * Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1302
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1303 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1304 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1305 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1306 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1307
43116
3c64eaf60ff7 Minor updates about libungif and Exceed 6.x.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42913
diff changeset
1308 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions
3c64eaf60ff7 Minor updates about libungif and Exceed 6.x.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42913
diff changeset
1309 as well; it is reportedly solved in version 6.2.0.16 and later. The
3c64eaf60ff7 Minor updates about libungif and Exceed 6.x.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 42913
diff changeset
1310 problem lies in the X-server settings.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1311
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1312 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1313 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1314 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1315 selection".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1316
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1317 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1318 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1319 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1320 here.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1321
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1322 * On Solaris 2, Emacs dumps core when built with Motif.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1323
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1324 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1325 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1326 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1327 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1328 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1329 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1330 are currently recommended for your host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1331
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1332 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1333 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1334 105284-18 might fix it again.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1335
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1336 * On Solaris 2.6 and 7, the Compose key does not work.
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1337
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1338 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1339 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1340 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch.
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1341 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1342
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1343 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1344 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1345 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1346 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1347 should do.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1348
26664
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1349 pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1350 if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
parents: 25853
diff changeset
1351 libraries.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1352
43629
e21744d59056 Added information on how to set options in CDE so
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 43389
diff changeset
1353 * Frames may cover dialogs they created when using CDE.
e21744d59056 Added information on how to set options in CDE so
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 43389
diff changeset
1354
e21744d59056 Added information on how to set options in CDE so
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 43389
diff changeset
1355 This can happen if you have "Allow Primary Windows On Top" enabled which
e21744d59056 Added information on how to set options in CDE so
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 43389
diff changeset
1356 seems to be the default in the Common Desktop Environment.
e21744d59056 Added information on how to set options in CDE so
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 43389
diff changeset
1357 To change, go in to "Desktop Controls" -> "Window Style Manager"
e21744d59056 Added information on how to set options in CDE so
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 43389
diff changeset
1358 and uncheck "Allow Primary Windows On Top".
e21744d59056 Added information on how to set options in CDE so
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 43389
diff changeset
1359
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1360 * Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1362 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1363 either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1364 calls for specifying this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1365
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1366 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1367 mail-host-address to the value you want.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1368
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1369 * Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs, on UnixWare 2.1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1370
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1371 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1372 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1373 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1374 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1375 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1376 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1377
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1378 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1379 But you have to be root to do it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1380
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1381 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1382
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1383 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1384 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard "
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1385 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1386 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard "
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1387 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1388
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1389 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1390 These changes take effect when you reboot.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1391
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1392 * Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1393
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1394 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1395 scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1396 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1397 on the right (as they were in Emacs 19).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1398
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1399 Here's how to do this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1400
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1401 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1402
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1403 If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1404 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1405 to normal, do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1406
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1407 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1408
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1409 * Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1410
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1411 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1412 supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1413 many different fonts, collected into a fontset.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1414
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1415 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1416 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1417 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1418
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1419 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1420 display all the characters Emacs supports.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1421
35249
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35152
diff changeset
1422 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35152
diff changeset
1423 missing glyph and no default character. This is known ot occur for
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35152
diff changeset
1424 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35152
diff changeset
1425 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35152
diff changeset
1426 of this character to display a space.
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents: 35152
diff changeset
1427
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1428 * Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1429
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1430 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1431
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1432 * Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1433
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1434 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1435 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1436 lines do not overlap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1437
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1438 * You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1439 video, but later frames are not in inverse video.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1440
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1441 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1442 your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1443 check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1444
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1445 * In FreeBSD 2.1.5, useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1446 directories that have the +t bit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1447
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1448 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1449 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1450 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1451 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1452
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1453 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1454 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1455
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1456 * When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1457 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1458
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1459 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit':
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1460
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1461 dbxenv output_short_file_name off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1462
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1463 * Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1464 appear on disk.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1465
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1466 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1467 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1468 implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1469 detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1470 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1471 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1472
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1473 * "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1474
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1475 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1476 will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1477 in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1478 did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1479 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1480 must pick one meaning or the other for any given key.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1481
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1482 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1483 them to two different keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1484
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1485 * Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup, on AIX4.2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1486
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1487 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1488 without optimization; that should avoid the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1489
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1490 * movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1491
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1492 Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1493 NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1494 entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1495 listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1496 the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1497 old POP protocol.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1498
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1499 * Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1500
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1501 This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1502 use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1503 an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1504 happens to exist on your X server).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1505
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1506 * Emacs crashes when you use Bibtex mode.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1507
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1508 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1509 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit')
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1510 to raise the stack size limit before you run Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1511
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1512 Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1513 (src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1514
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1515 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on HPUX 9 after you delete a frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1516
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1517 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1518 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1519 does not happen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1520
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1521 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1522
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1523 We suspect that this is a similar bug in the X libraries provided by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1524 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1525 makes the problem stop:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1526
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1527 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1528 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1529 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1530 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1532 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1533 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1534
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1535 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1536 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1537 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1538
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1539 * Problems running Perl under Emacs on Windows NT/95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1541 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1542 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1544 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1545 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1546 with the user.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1547
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1548 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1549 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1550 communicate with the subprocess.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1551
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1552 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1553 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1554 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1555 stdin.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1556
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1557 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1558
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1559 For Perl 4:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1560
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1561 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1562 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1563 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1564 *** 68,74 ****
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1565 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1566 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1567 else {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1568 ! $console = "con";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1569 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1570 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1571
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1572 --- 68,74 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1573 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1574 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1575 else {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1576 ! $console = "";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1577 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1578 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1579
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1580
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1581 For Perl 5:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1582 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1583 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1584 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1585 *** 22,28 ****
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1586 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1587 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1588 elsif (-e "con") {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1589 ! $console = "con";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1590 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1591 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1592 else {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1593 --- 22,28 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1594 $rcfile=".perldb";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1595 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1596 elsif (-e "con") {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1597 ! $console = "";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1598 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1599 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1600 else {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1601
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1602 * Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1603
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1604 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1605
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1606 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1607 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com';
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1608 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1609
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1610 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1611 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1612 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1613 incorrect library functions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1614
37480
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1615 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1616
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1617 If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1618 Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1619 program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1620 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1621 the front of your PATH environment variable.
e3bb46df554b Document problems with DJGPP and NT's `redir' program.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 37453
diff changeset
1622
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1623 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1624 like make-docfile.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1625
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1626 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1627 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1628 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1629 the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1630
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1631 * Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1632 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled.
38175
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1633
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1634 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1635 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1636 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout
38175
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1637 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs.
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1638
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1639 Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1640 the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1641 Lisp.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1642
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1643 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1644 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1645 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1646 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1647 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1648 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1649 explains this issue in more detail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1650
38175
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1651 Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1652 MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1653 by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1654 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1655 them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1656 must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1657 properly truncated.
8976a1349254 More about long file names and the MSDOS port.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 38135
diff changeset
1658
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1659 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1660
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1661 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1662
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1663 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1664 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1665 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1666 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1667 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1668 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1669 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1670 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1671 your system works as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1672
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1673 * On Windows 95, Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1674
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1675 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1676 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1677
42759
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
1678 * Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on Windows.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1679
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1680 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1681 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
42759
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
1682 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way. A
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
1683 more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination,
eb0beb585d7c Updates for current state of Windows port.
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
parents: 42748
diff changeset
1684 or disable it in the keyboard control panel.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1685
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1686 * `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1688 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1689 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1690 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1691 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1692 does not work with this version of ncurses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1693
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1694 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1695
45339
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1696 * Emacs does not start complaining that it cannot open termcap database file.
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1697
45342
b0790d543280 Fix typo.
Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
parents: 45339
diff changeset
1698 If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern systems
45339
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1699 do), this could happen if you have an old version of ncurses
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1700 installed, or if the newer version is not visible to the Emacs
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1701 configure script (i.e. it cannot be found along the usual path the
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1702 linker looks for libraries).
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1703
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1704 The solution is to install a newer version of ncurses, and make sure
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1705 the linker can find it.
b5b8d69d0a4e Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 45083
diff changeset
1706
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1707 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1708
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1709 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1710 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1711 as GCC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1712
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1713 * Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly truncated
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1714 on GNU/Linux systems.
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1715
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1716 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version
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1717 1.3.75.
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1718
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1719 * Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems.
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1720
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1721 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16
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1722 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the
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1723 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it
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1724 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16.
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1725
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1726 Using the old library version is a workaround.
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1727
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1728 * On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time).
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1729
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1730 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise
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1731 version of Solaris that you are using.
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1732
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1733 * Emacs dumps core on startup, on Solaris.
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1734
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1735 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch
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1736 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris
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1737 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem
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1738 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead.
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1739 However, that linker version won't work with CDE.
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1740
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1741 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if
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1742 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
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1743 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
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1744 for certain.
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1745
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1746 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
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1747 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
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1748 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
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1749
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1750 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
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1751 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)
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1752
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1753 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell
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1754 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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1755
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1756 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and
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1757 Solaris 2.5.
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1758
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1759 * Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called, on Solaris.
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1760
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1761 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2
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1762 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is
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1763 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC.
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1764
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1765 * "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes on HPUX, in
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1766 Emacs built with Motif.
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1767
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1768 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions
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1769 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem.
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1770
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1771 * On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi
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1772
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1773 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
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1774 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
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1775 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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1776
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1777 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
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1778
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1779 * "out of virtual swap space" on Irix 5.3
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1780
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1781 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too
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1782 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more
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1783 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You
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1784 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the
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1785 command `swap -l'.
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1786
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1787 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a
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1788 line like this:
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1789
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1790 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0
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1791
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1792 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance
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1793 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of
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1794 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the
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1795 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further
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1796 information.
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1797
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1798 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be
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1799 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users
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1800 on the network that can log on to the host.
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1801
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1802 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute
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1803 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable
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1804 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM
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1805 icons.
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1806
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1807 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin'
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1808 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35
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1809 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at
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1810 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/.
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1811
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1812 * With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
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1813 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
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1814
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1815 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went
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1816 away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was
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1817 XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works.
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1818
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1819 * On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
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1820
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1821 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
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1822 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
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1823 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
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1824 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
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1825
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1826 * On SunOS 4, Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server
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1827 (or log out, if you logged in using X).
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1828
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1829 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem.
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1830
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1831 * On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
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1832 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
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1833
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1834 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
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1835 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
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1836 Definitions" to make them defined.
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1837
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1838 * On SunOS, you get linker errors
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1839 ld: Undefined symbol
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1840 _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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1841 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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1842
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1843 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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1844 or link libXmu statically.
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1845
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1846 * On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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1847 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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1848 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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1849
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1850 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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1851 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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1852 you build Emacs:
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1853
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1854 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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1855 chmod 664 libIM.a
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1856 ranlib libIM.a
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1857
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1858 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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1859 Makefile).
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1860
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1861 * Unpredictable segmentation faults on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4.
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1862
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1863 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with
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1864 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0.
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1865
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1866 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
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1867
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1868 * Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for
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1869 Windows.
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1870
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1871 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
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1872 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
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1873 problem.
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1874
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1875 * Emacs crashes at startup on MSDOS.
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1876
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1877 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management,
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1878 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet
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1879 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real
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1880 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler.
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1881 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround.
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1882
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1883 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without
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1884 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more
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1885 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp
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1886 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.)
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1887
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1888 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory
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1889 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider
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1890 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches)
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1891 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See
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1892 the djgpp faq for configuration hints.
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1893
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1894 * A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
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1895
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1896 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
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1897 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
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1898
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1899 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position
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1900
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1901 * Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c.
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1902
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1903 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve
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1904 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
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1905 Emacs's configure script.
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1906
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1907 * Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c.
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1908
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1909 This results from a bug in GNU Sed version 2.03. To solve the
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1910 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's
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1911 configure script.
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1912
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1913 * On Sunos 4.1.1, there are errors compiling sysdep.c.
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1914
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1915 If you get errors such as
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1916
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1917 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
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1918 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
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1919 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined
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1920
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1921 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky
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1922 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure
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1923 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must
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1924 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same
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diff changeset
1925 ones available when you build Emacs.
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1926
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1927 * The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
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1928 other non-English HP keyboards too).
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1929
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1930 This is because HPUX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
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1931 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
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1932 configures the X server.
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1933
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1934 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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1935 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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1936 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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1937 EOF
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1938
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1939 xmodmap - << EOF
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1940 clear mod1
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1941 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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1942 add mod1 = Meta_L
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1943 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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1944 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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1945 EOF
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1946
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1947 * The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
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1948
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1949 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
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1950 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
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1951 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
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1952 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
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1953 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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1954
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1955 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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1956
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1957 * Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse.
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1958
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1959 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and
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1960 that replacing the mouse made it stop.
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1961
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1962 * Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
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1963
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1964 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
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1965 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
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1966 to allocate ptys reliably.
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1967
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1968 * On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
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1969
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1970 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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1971 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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1972 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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1973 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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1974 syms.h.
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1975
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1976 * Slow startup on Linux-based GNU systems.
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1977
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1978 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
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1979 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
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1980
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1981 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
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1982 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
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1983 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
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1984 networked and non-networked machines.
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1985
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1986 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
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1987
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1988 ** Networked Case
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1989
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1990 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
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1991 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
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1992 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
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1993
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1994 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME
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1995
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1996 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
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1997 lines:
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1998
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1999 order hosts, bind
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2000 multi on
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2001
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2002 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
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2003 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
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2004 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
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2005 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
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2006
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2007 ** Non-Networked Case
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2008
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2009 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
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2010 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
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2011 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
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2012 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
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2013 file is not necessary with this approach.
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2014
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2015 * On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
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2016 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
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2017
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2018 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
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2019 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
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2020
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2021 #if ThreadedX
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2022 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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2023 #endif
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2024
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2025 to:
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2026
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2027 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
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2028 #if ThreadedX
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2029 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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2030 #endif
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2031 #endif
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2032
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2033 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
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2034 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
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2035 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
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2036 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
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2037 definition for your type of machine and system.
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2038
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2039 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
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2040 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
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2041 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
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2042
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2043 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch
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2044 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
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2045 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
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2046 patch.
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2047
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2048 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
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2049 he changed
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2050 #define ThreadedX YES
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2051 to
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2052 #define ThreadedX NO
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2053 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
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2054 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
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2055 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
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2056
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2057 * With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice
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2058 to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
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2059
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2060 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
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2061 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
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2062 another escape character in kermit. One user did
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2063
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2064 set escape-character 17
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2065
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2066 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
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2067
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2068 * The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
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2069
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2070 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
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2071
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2072 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
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2073
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2074 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
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2075 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
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2076 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
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2077 the resource prevents the problem.
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2078
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2079 * Emacs gets hung shortly after startup, on Sunos 4.1.3.
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2080
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2081 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that
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2082 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug:
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2083
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2084 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01
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2085 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01
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2086 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01
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2087 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02
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2088 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
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2089
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2090 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out
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2091 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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2092
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2093 * Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X.
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2094
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2095 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was
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2096 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to
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2097 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes
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2098 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use
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2099 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers.
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2100 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header
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2101 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the
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2102 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs
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2103 not to work.
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2104
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2105 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir
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2106 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir
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2107 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the
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2108 same directory where system header files are kept.
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2109
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2110 * On Solaris 2.x, GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported"
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2111
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2112 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you
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2113 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this
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2114 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or
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2115 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as
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2116 described in the Solaris FAQ
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2117 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is
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2118 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later.
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2119
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2120 * The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
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2121
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2122 This shell command should fix it:
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2123
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2124 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
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2125
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2126 * Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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2127
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2128 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
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2129 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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2130 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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2131 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
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2132 GCC.
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2133
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2134 * On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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2135
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2136 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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2137 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
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2138 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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2139
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2140 * You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version).
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2141
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2142 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus
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2143 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you
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2144 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in
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2145 the Files menu).
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2146
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2147 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is
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2148 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really
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2149 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a
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2150 workaround can be found.
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2151
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2152 * Unusable default font on SCO 3.2v4.
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2153
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2154 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings
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2155 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such
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2156 fonts, so it does not work.
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2157
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2158 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is
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2159 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal
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2160 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources
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2161 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these
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2162 resources affect Emacs also:
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2163
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2164 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-*
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2165 *Background: scoBackground
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2166 *Foreground: scoForeground
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2167
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2168 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for
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2169 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents:
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2170
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2171 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
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2172 Emacs*Background: white
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2173 Emacs*Foreground: black
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2174
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2175 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to
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2176 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server
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2177 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop
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2178 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell
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2179 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the
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2180 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs,
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2181 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the
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2182 Open Desktop display.
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2183
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2184 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO
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2185 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually.
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2186
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2187 * rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields".
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2188
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2189 This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk.
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2190 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk).
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2191
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2192 * Emacs is slow using X11R5 on HP/UX.
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2193
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2194 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it
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2195 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version
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2196 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a,
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2197 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with
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2198 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to
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2199 install them and rebuild Emacs.
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2200
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2201 * Loading fonts is very slow.
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2202
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2203 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps.
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2204 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font
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2205 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file
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2206 "fonts.scale".
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2207
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2208 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable
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2209 font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details.
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2210
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2211 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font
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2212 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26.
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2213 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary.
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2214
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2215 * On AIX 3.2.4, releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down.
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2216
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2217 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is
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2218 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can
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2219 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are
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2220 treated as control characters.
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2221
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2222 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and
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2223 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.
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2224
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2225 * display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.
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2226
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2227 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
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2228 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2229 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
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2230 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other
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2231 processes die, in particular pcnfsd.
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2232
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2233 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2234 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst.
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2235
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2236 The only known fix: Don't run display-time.
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2237
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2238 * On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
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2239
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2240 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
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2241 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
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2242
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2243 * Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by
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2244 segmentation fault and core dump.
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2245
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2246 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously
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2247 added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code:
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2248
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2249 x FILENAME, N bytes, B tape blocks
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2250
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2251 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to
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2252 untar it :-).
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2253
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2254 * Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
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2255
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2256 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
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2257
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2258 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
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2259
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2260 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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2261
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2262 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
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2263 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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2264
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2265 * Link failure on IBM AIX 1.3 ptf 0013.
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2266
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2267 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in
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2268 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The
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2269 workaround/fix is:
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2270
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2271 cd /lib
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2272 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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2273 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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2274
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2275 * Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose on a Sun.
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2276
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2277 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking
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2278 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in
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2279 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared
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2280 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X
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2281 toolkit.)
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2282
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2283 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find
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2284 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in
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2285 X11R4, then use it in the link.
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2286
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2287 * Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'
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2288
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2289 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded.
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2290 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because
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2291 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls
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2292 where-is-internal in an obsolete way.
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2293
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2294 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey.
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2295
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2296 * In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
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2297
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2298 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
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2299 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
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2300 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2301 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
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2302
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2303 if ($?EMACS) then
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2304 if ($EMACS == "t") then
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parents:
diff changeset
2305 unset edit
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parents:
diff changeset
2306 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
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2307 endif
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parents:
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2308 endif
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parents:
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2309
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2310 * An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
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2311 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
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2312
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2313 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
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2314 emacs*Cursor: black
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parents:
diff changeset
2315 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
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2316 that isn't a color.)
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parents:
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2317
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diff changeset
2318 The fix is to correct your X resources.
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2319
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2320 * Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1 using --with-x-toolkit.
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parents:
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2321
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2322 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2323 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2324 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
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diff changeset
2325
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parents:
diff changeset
2326 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2327 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
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2328
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2329 * Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server.
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2330
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parents:
diff changeset
2331 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is
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parents:
diff changeset
2332 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs.
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parents:
diff changeset
2333 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2334
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parents:
diff changeset
2335 * src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
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parents:
diff changeset
2336
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parents:
diff changeset
2337 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2338 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2339
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2340 * Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2341
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2342 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2343 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2344 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2345 font.
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parents:
diff changeset
2346
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parents:
diff changeset
2347 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2348 your font path, like this:
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parents:
diff changeset
2349
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parents:
diff changeset
2350 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
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parents:
diff changeset
2351
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parents:
diff changeset
2352 * Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs.
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parents:
diff changeset
2353
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2354 An X resource of this form can cause the problem:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2355
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2356 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0
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parents:
diff changeset
2357
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2358 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus
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parents:
diff changeset
2359 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2360 want, rewrite the resource.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2361
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2362 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2363 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2364 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2365
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2366 * --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2367
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2368 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2369 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2370 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2371 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2372 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2373 and Solaris in version 19.29.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2374
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2375 * `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2376
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2377 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2378 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2379 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2380 hand.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2381
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parents:
diff changeset
2382 * --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong on BSD/386.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2383
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parents:
diff changeset
2384 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2385 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2386 such as bash.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2387
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parents:
diff changeset
2388 * Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies, on Sunos 5.3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2389
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2390 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2391 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2392 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2393 communicating through pipes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2394
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2395 * Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2396
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2397 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2398 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2399 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2400 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2401 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2402 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2403 obtain the destination address.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2404
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2405 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2406 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2407 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2408 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2409 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2410 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2411 of this writing, these official versions are available:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2412
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2413 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2414 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2415 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2416 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2417 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2418
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2419 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
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parents:
diff changeset
2420 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2421
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2422 * On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2423
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2424 Could not load program emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2425 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2426 Error was: Exec format error
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2427
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2428 or this one:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2429
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2430 Could not load program .emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2431 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2432 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2433 Error was: Exec format error
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2434
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2435 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2436 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2437
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2438 * On AIX, you get this compiler error message:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2439
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2440 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
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2441 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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2442
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2443 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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2444 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
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2445 X11Dev... with smit.
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2446
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2447 * You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key.
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2448
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2449 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym
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2450 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11
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2451 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key
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2452 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap.
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2453
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2454 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key:
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2455
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2456 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L"
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2457
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2458 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to
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2459 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2460 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display.
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2461
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2462 * C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
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2463
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2464 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2465 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2466 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value.
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2467
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2468 * Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars
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2469
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2470 These control the actions of Emacs.
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2471 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file.
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2472 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2473 "load" will search.
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2474
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2475 If you observe strange problems, check for these and get rid
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2476 of them, then try again.
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2477
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2478 * After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
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2479
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2480 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2481 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2482 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
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2483
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2484 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2485 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2486 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2487 configure script) that reads:
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2488 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
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2489 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2490 the kernel bug.
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2491
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2492 * Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2493 directly with an X server.
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2494
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2495 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2496 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2497 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2498 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2499 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2500 have made the key binding correctly.
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2501
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2502 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2503 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2504 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2505 default.
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2506
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2507 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
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2508
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2509 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
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2510 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2511
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2512 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2513 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2514 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2515 modifier bit not otherwise used.
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2516
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2517 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2518 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
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2519 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2520 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2521
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2522 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2523 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2524
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2525 * `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
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2526
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2527 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2528 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2529 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2530 value is just ten seconds.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2532 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2533
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2534 * `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2535
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2536 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2537 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2538 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2539 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2541 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2542 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2544 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2545 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2546 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2547 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2548
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2549 * On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X.
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parents:
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2550
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2551 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2552 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2553 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2554
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2555 * Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2556
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2557 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2558
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2559 * Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2560 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
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parents:
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2561 * Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
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parents:
diff changeset
2562 * GNUs can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2563
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2564 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2565 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2566 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2567 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2568
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2569 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2570 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2571
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2572 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2573 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2574
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2575 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2576
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2577 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2578 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2579 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2580 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2581 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2582 be careful not to lose the others.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2583
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2584 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2585
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2586 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2587
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2588 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2589 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2590 again to say this:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2591
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2592 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2593
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parents:
diff changeset
2594 * On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2595
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2596 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2597
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2598 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2599
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2600 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2601
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2602 * Self documentation messages are garbled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2603
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2604 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2605 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2606 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2607
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2608 * Trouble using ptys on AIX.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2609
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2610 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2611 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2612
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2613 * Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2614
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2615 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2616
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2617 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2618 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2619 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2620 but tty is giving it back 3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2621
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2622 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2623 word:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2624
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2625 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2626
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2627 should be changed to:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2628
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2629 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2630
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2631 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2632 and into .login.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2633
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2634 * Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2635
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2636 Use the shell command `xset bc' to make the old X Menu package work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2637
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2638 * Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2639 * `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2640
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2641 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2642 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2643 the environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2644
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2645 * Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2647 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2648 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2649 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2650 with a floating point option other than the default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2651
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2652 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2653 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2654 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2655 floating point option: -fsoft.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2656
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2657 * Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2658
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2659 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2660 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2661 tell Emacs to compensate for this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2662
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2663 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2664 whether this problem is present on a given system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2665
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2666 * Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2667 as a concentrator.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2668
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2669 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2670 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2671
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2672 * M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2673
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2674 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2675 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2676
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2677 * Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2678 terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2679
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2680 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2681 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2682 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2683 emulates.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2684
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2685 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2686 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2687 it only if it is undefined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2688
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2689 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2690
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2691 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2692 happen in a non-login shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2693
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2694 * X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2695
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2696 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2697 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2698 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2699 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2700
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2701 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2702 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2703 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2704
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2705 The easy way to do this is to put
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2706
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2707 (setq x-sigio-bug t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2708
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2709 in your site-init.el file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2710
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2711 * Problem with remote X server on Suns.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2712
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2713 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2714 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2715 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2716 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2717
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2718 * Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2719
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2720 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2722 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2724 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2725 Here is how to make more of them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2726
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2727 % cd /dev
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2728 % ls pty*
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parents:
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2729 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2730 % /etc/crpty 8
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parents:
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2731 # creates eight new pty's
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2732
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2733 * Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2734
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2735 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2736 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2737
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2738 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2739 space available on the machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2740
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2741 On 68000's, it has also happened because of bugs in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2742 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2743 for large blocks (many pages).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2744
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2745 * test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2746 * or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2747 * or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2748 * or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2749
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2750 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2751 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2752 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2753
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2754 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2755 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2756 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2757 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2758 when unpacking the shell archive.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2759
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2760 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2761 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2762 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2763
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2764 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2765 nonprinting characters, you can fix them:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2766
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2767 1) Record the names of all the .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2768 2) Delete all the .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2769 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2770 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2771 4) Remake emacs. It should work now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2772 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2773 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2774 You may need to increase the value of the variable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2775 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2776 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2777 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2778 and remake temacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2779 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2780
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2781 * temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted"
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2782
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2783 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2784 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2785 space than was allocated.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2786
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2787 This could be caused by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2788 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2789 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2790 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2791 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2792 if you have received Emacs from some other site
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2793 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2794 deleting that file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2795 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2796 (not from the directory you expected).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2797 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2798 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2799 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2800 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2801 the space required.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2802
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2803 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2804 of PURESIZE in puresize.h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2805
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2806 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2807 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2808 problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2809
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2810 * Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2811
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2812 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2813 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2814 will not be seen. To fix this, do M-x byte-recompile-directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2815 and specify the directory that contains the Lisp files.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2816
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2817 Emacs should print a warning when loading a .elc file which is older
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2818 than the corresponding .el file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2819
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2820 * The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2821
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2822 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2823
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2824 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2825 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2826 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2827 value in the man page for a.out (5).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2828
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2829 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2830 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2831 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2832 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2833 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2834
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2835 * Compilation errors on VMS.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2836
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2837 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2838 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2839 This is not an error. Ignore it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2840
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2841 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2842 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2843
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2844 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2845 in conditional expressions. The bug is:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2846 char c = -1, d = 1;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2847 int i;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2848
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2849 i = d ? c : d;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2850 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2851 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2852 constructs in Emacs have been fixed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2854 * rmail gets error getting new mail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2855
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2856 rmail gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2857 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2858 the protocol defined by /bin/mail.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2859
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2860 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2861 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2862 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2863 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2864 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2865 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2866 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2867
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2868 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2869 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2870 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2871 `mail'. You can use these commands (as root):
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2872
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2873 chgrp mail movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2874 chmod 2755 movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2875
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2876 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2877 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2878 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2879 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2880 make install.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2881
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2882 chgrp mail movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2883 chmod 2755 movemail
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2884
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2885 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2886 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2887 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2888 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2889 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2890 directory copy is ineffective.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2891
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2892 * Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2893
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2894 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2895 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2896 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2897 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2898 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2899 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2900 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2901 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2902
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2903 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2904
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2905 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2906 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2907 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2908
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2909 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2910 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2911 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2912 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2913 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2914 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2915
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2916 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2917 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2918 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2919 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2920 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2921 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2922 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2923 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2924 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2925
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2926 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2927 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2928 codes. You might as well try it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2929
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2930 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2931 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2932 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2933 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2934 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2935 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2936 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2937 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2938
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2939 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2940 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2941 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2942 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2943 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2944 control handling.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2945
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2946 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2947 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2948 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2949 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2950 other control characters are already used by emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2951
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2952 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2953 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2954 order to continue.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2955
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2956 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2957 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2958 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2959 automatically. Here is an example:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2960
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2961 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2962
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2963 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2964 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2965 manually.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2966
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2967 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2968 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2969 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2970 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2971 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2972 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2973 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2974 of inferior systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2975
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2976 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2977
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2978 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2979 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2980 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2981 that wants to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2982
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2983 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2984 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2985 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2986
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2987 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2988 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2989 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2990
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2991 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net connection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2992
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2993 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2994 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2995 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2996 control on the local system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2997
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2998 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2999 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3000 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3001 "stty start u stop u" will do this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3002
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3003 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3004 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3005 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3006
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3007 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3008 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3009 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3010 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3011
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3012 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3013
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3014 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3015 info.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3016
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3017 * Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3018
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3019 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3020 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3021 the combination of features specified for that terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3022
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3023 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3024 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3025 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3026 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3027 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3028 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3029 There are several possibilities:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3030
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3031 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3032
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3033 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3034 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3035
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3036 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3037 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3038 by termcap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3039
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3040 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3041 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3042 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3043 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3044 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3045 tested on many kinds of terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3046
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3047 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3048
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3049 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3050 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3051 for certain terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3052
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3053 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3054 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3055
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3056 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3057 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3058
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3059 * Output from Control-V is slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3060
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3061 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3062 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3063 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3064 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3065 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3066 it will scroll them to the top of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3067
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3068 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3069 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3070 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3071 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3072 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3073 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3074 time as the operations really take.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3075
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3076 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3077 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3078 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3079 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3080 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3081 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3082 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3083 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3084 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3085 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3086
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3087 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3088 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3089 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3090 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3091 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3092 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3093 `cm' string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3094
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3095 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3096 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3097 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3098
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3099 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3100 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3101
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3102 * Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3103
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3104 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3105
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3106 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3107 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3108
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3109 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3110
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3111 * You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3112
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3113 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3114 after a day or two.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3115
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3116 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3117 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3118 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3119 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3120 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3121 to it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3122
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3123 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3124 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3125 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3126 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3127 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3128 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3129
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3130 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3131 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3132 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3133 You can probably access help-command via f1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3134
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3135 * Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3136 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3137 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3138 causes it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3139
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3140 There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3141 call in the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3142
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3143 The first is that the fsync() call is handled as another name for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3144 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3145 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3146 to make sure that the bits are on the disk.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3147
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3148 This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3149
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3150 The second, more serious problem, is that fsync() is treated as a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3151 non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3152 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3153 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3154 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3155 is done) is a bad idea; unfortunately, changing it will break the RFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3156 protocol. No fix was supplied for this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3157
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3158 (as always, your line numbers may vary)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3159
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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3160 % rcsdiff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
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3161 RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v
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3162 retrieving revision 1.2
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3163 diff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
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3164 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987
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3165 --- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987
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3166 ***************
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3167 *** 163,169 ****
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3168 /*
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3169 * No return sent for close or fsync!
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3170 */
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3171 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close || syscall == RSYS_fsync)
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3172 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
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3173 else
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3174 {
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3175 --- 166,172 ----
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3176 /*
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3177 * No return sent for close or fsync!
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3178 */
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3179 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close)
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3180 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
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3181 else
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3182 {
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3183
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3184 * Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs.
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3185
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3186 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs:
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3187
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3188 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG
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3189 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom
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3190
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3191 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C.
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3192 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct
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3193 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending
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3194 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes
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3195 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled
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3196 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files
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3197 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine.
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3198
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3199 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect
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3200 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more
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3201 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it
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3202 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an
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3203 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call:
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3204 Lisp_Object *args;
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3205 ...
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3206 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)...
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3207 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in
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3208 Lisp_Object *args;
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3209 Lisp_Object tem;
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3210 ...
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3211 tem = args[i];
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3212 ... foo (r, tem, ...)...
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3213 causes the problem to go away.
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3214 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects,
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3215 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that.
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3216
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3217 * 68000 C compiler problems
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3218
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3219 Various 68000 compilers have different problems.
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3220 These are some that have been observed.
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3221
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3222 ** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses.
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3223 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work
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3224 if x is of type Lisp_Object.
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3225
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3226 ** "cannot reclaim" error.
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3227
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3228 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct
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3229 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with
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3230 simpler expressions.
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3231
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3232 ** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code.
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3233
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3234 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause.
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3235 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code:
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3236
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3237 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; };
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3238
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3239 lose (arg)
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3240 struct foo arg;
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3241 {
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3242 test ((int *) arg.y);
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3243 }
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3244
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3245 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem.
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3246 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with
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3247 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int.
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3248
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3249 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
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3250 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now.
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3251
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3252 * C compilers lose on returning unions
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3253
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3254 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type.
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3255 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is
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3256 defined as a union on some rare architectures.
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3257
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3258 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
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3259 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE.
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3260
41836
09535ed6868f Use outline-mode.
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3261
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3262 Local variables:
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3263 mode: outline
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3264 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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3265 end: