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8 their respective relevance for XEmacs, but may have not succeeded
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11 - Problems with building XEmacs
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21 XEmacs provides (e.g. `C-s').
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25 WATCH OUT for your init file! (~/.xemacs/init.el or ~/.emacs) If
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26 you observe strange problems, invoke XEmacs with the `-vanilla'
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27 option and see if you can repeat the problem.
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29 Note that most of the problems described here manifest at RUN
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30 time, even those described as BUILD problems. It is quite unusual
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31 for a released XEmacs to fail to build. So a "build problem"
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32 requires you to tweak the build environment, then rebuild XEmacs.
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33 A "runtime problem" is one that can be fixed by proper
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34 configuration of the existing build. Compatibility problems and
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35 Mule issues are generally runtime problems, but are treated
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36 separately for convenience.
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42 ** General
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43 Much general information is in INSTALL. If it's covered in
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44 INSTALL, we don't repeat it here.
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45
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46 *** How does I configure to get the buffer tabs/progress bars?
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48 These features depend on support for "native widgets". Use the
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49 --with-widgets option to configure. Configuration of widgets is
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50 automatic for "modern" toolkits (MS Windows, GTK, and Motif), but if
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51 you are using Xt and the Athena widgets, you will probably want to
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52 specify a "3d" widget set. See configure --usage, and don't forget to
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53 install the corresponding development libraries.
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54
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55 *** I know I have libfoo installed, but configure doesn't find it.
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57 Typical of Linux systems with package managers. To link with a shared
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58 library, you only need the shared library. To compile objects that
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59 link with it, you need the headers---and distros don't provide them with
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60 the libraries. You need the additional "development" package, too.
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62 *** Don't use -O2 with gcc 2.8.1 and egcs 1.0 under SPARC architectures
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63 without also using `-fno-schedule-insns'.
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65 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise, typically resulting in
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66 crashes in the function skip-syntax-backward.
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70 There have been reports of egcs-1.1 not compiling XEmacs correctly on
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71 Alpha Linux. There have also been reports that egcs-1.0.3a is O.K.
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73 *** Don't use -O2 or -O3 with Cygwin 1.0, CodeFusion-99070 or gcc 2.7.2 on x86
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76 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise. This bug is present in at
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77 least 2.6.x and 2.7.[0-2]. This bug has been fixed in GCC 2.7.2.1 and
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78 later. This bug is O/S independent, but is limited to x86 architectures.
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80 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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83 Net-released ones) have a bug with the same `problem signature'.
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85 If you're lucky, you'll get an error while compiling that looks like:
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87 event-stream.c:3189: internal error--unrecognizable insn:
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88 (insn 256 14 15 (set (reg/v:SI 24)
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89 (minus:SI (reg/v:SI 25)
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90 (const_int 2))) -1 (insn_list 11 (nil))
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91 (nil))
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92 0 0 [main]
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94 If you're unlucky, your code will simply execute incorrectly.
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96 *** Don't use gcc-2.95.2 with -mcpu=ultrasparc on Solaris 2.6.
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98 gcc will assume a 64-bit operating system, even though you've
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99 merely told it to assume a 64-bit instruction set.
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105 present in gcc 2.7.2.3. There have been no reports to indicate the
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106 bug is present in egcs 1.0 (or pgcc 1.0) or later. This bug is O/S
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107 independent, but limited to x86 architectures.
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109 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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112 When using gcc, you get the error message "undefined symbol __main".
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114 This means that you need to link with the gcc library. It may be called
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115 "gcc-gnulib" or "libgcc.a"; figure out where it is, and define LIB_GCC in
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116 config.h to point to it.
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117
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118 It may also work to use the GCC version of `ld' instead of the standard one.
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119
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120 *** Excessive optimization with pgcc can break XEmacs
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122 It has been reported on some systems that compiling with -O6 can lead
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123 to XEmacs failures. The workaround is to use a lower optimization
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124 level. -O2 and -O4 have been tested extensively.
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127 of libc. Snapshots near the release of pgcc-1.0 have been tested
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128 extensively and no sign of breakage has been seen on systems using
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129 glibc-2.
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134 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.
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136 *** When compiling with X11, you get "undefined symbol _XtStrings".
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138 This means that you are trying to link emacs against the X11r4 version of
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139 libXt.a, but you have compiled either Emacs or the code in the lwlib
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140 subdirectory with the X11r5 header files. That doesn't work.
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142 Remember, you can't compile lwlib for r4 and emacs for r5, or vice versa.
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143 They must be in sync.
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146 or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
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147 or, temacs runs and dumps xemacs, but xemacs totally fails to work.
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148 or, temacs gets errors dumping xemacs
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150 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
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151 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are binary
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152 files and can contain all 256 byte values.
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153
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154 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. It
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155 typically truncates "lines". (this does not apply to GNU shar, which
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156 uses uuencode to encode binary files.)
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158 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its nonprinting
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159 characters, you can fix them by running:
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160
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161 make all-elc
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163 This will rebuild all the needed .elc files.
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167 XFree86 installs a very old version of libz.a by default ahead of where
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168 more modern version of libz might be installed. This will cause problems
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169 when attempting to link against libMagick. The fix is to remove the old
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170 libz.a in the X11 binary directory.
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173 ** AIX
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174 *** On AIX 4.3, you must specify --with-dialogs=athena with configure
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177 xemacs -nw to fail in various ways. The official APAR is this:
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179 APAR NUMBER: <IX89470> RESOLVED AS: PROGRAM ERROR
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181 ABSTRACT:
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182 <IX89470>: LIBXT.A INCORRECT HANDLING OF EXCEPTIONS IN XTAPPADDINPUT
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184 The solution is to install X11.base.lib at version >=4.3.2.5.
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188 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
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189 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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191 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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192 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
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193 X11Dev... with smit.
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194
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195 *** On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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196 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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197 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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199 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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200 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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201 you build Emacs:
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202
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203 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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204 chmod 664 libIM.a
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205 ranlib libIM.a
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206
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207 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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208 Makefile).
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209
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210 *** Excessive optimization on AIX 4.2 can lead to compiler failure.
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211
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212 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
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213 At least at the b34 level, and the latest-and-greatest IBM xlc
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214 (3.1.4.4), there are problems with -O3. I haven't investigated
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215 further.
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219 *** Crashes when using Motif libraries, especially with multiple frames.
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220
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221 Crashes that produce C-backtraces like this:
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223 #0 0xfec9a118 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
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224 #1 0x77f48 in fatal_error_signal (sig=11)
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225 at /codes/rpluim/xemacs-21.4/src/emacs.c:539
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226 #2 <signal handler called>
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227 #3 0xfee929f4 in XFindContext () from /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
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228 #4 0xfee92930 in XFindContext () from /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
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229 #5 0xff297e54 in DisplayDestroy () from /usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.4
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230 #6 0xfefbece0 in XtCallCallbackList () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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231 #7 0xfefc486c in XtPhase2Destroy () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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232 #8 0xfefc45d0 in _XtDoPhase2Destroy () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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233 #9 0xfefc43b4 in XtDestroyWidget () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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234 #10 0x15cf9c in x_delete_device (d=0x523f00)
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235
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236 are caused by buggy Motif libraries. Installing the following patches
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237 has been reported to solve the problem on Solaris 2.7:
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239 107081-40 107656-07
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241 For information (although they have not been confirmed to work), the
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242 equivalent patches for Solaris 2.8 are:
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244 108940-33 108652-25
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246 *** Dumping error when using GNU binutils / GNU ld on a Sun.
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247
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248 Errors similar to the following:
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250 Dumping under the name xemacs unexec():
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251 dldump(/space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs): ld.so.1: ./temacs:
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252 fatal: /space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs: unknown dynamic entry:
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253 1879048176
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255 are caused by using GNU ld. There are several workarounds available:
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257 In XEmacs 21.2 or later, configure using the new portable dumper
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258 (--pdump).
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259
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260 Alternatively, you can link using the Sun version of ld, which is
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261 normally held in /usr/ccs/bin. This can be done by one of:
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262
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263 - building gcc with these configure flags:
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264 configure --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as
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265
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266 - adding -B/usr/ccs/bin/ to CFLAGS used to configure XEmacs
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267 (Note: The trailing '/' there is significant.)
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268
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269 - uninstalling GNU ld.
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270
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271 The Solaris2 FAQ claims:
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273 When you install gcc, don't make the mistake of installing
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274 GNU binutils or GNU libc, they are not as capable as their
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275 counterparts you get with Solaris 2.x.
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276
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279 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
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281 /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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283 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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284
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285 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
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286 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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287
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288 *** Problems finding X11 libraries on Solaris with Openwindows
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290 Some users have reported problems in this area. The reported solution
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291 is to define the environment variable OPENWINHOME, even if you must set
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292 it to `/usr/openwin'.
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293
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294 *** Sed problems on Solaris 2.5
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295
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296 There have been reports of Sun sed truncating very lines in the
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297 Makefile during configuration. The workaround is to use GNU sed or,
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298 even better, think of a better way to generate Makefile, and send us a
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299 patch. :-)
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300
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301 *** On Solaris 2 I get undefined symbols from libcurses.a.
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302
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303 You probably have /usr/ucblib/ on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Do the link with
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304 LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset. Generally, avoid using any ucb* stuff when
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305 building XEmacs.
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306
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307 *** On Solaris 2 I cannot make alloc.o, glyphs.o or process.o.
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308
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309 The SparcWorks C compiler may have difficulty building those modules
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310 with optimization level -xO4. Try using only "-fast" optimization
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311 for just those modules. (Or use gcc).
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312
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313 *** Solaris 2.3 /bin/sh coredumps during configuration.
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314
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315 This only occurs if you have LANG != C. This is a known bug with
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316 /bin/sh fixed by installing Patch-ID# 101613-01. Or, you can use
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317 bash, as a workaround.
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318
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319 *** On SunOS, you get linker errors
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322 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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324 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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325 or link libXmu statically.
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326
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327 *** On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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328
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329 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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330 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
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331 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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332
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333 *** Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1.
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335 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
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336 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
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337 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
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338
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339 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
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340 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
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341
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342 *** On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
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346 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
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347
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348 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
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349
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350 *** SunOS 4.1.2: undefined symbol _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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351
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352 Apparently the version of libXmu.so.a that Sun ships is hosed: it's missing
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354 this, but a workaround is to use the static version of libXmu, by changing
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355 the link command from "-lXmu" to "-Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic". If you have
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356 OpenWindows 3.0, ask Sun for these patches:
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357 100512-02 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 libXt Jumbo patch
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358 100573-03 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 undefined symbols with shared libXmu
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362 The X headers and libraries that Sun ships in /usr/{include,lib}/X11 are
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363 broken. Use the ones in /usr/openwin/{include,lib} instead.
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366 *** Under Linux, you get "too many arguments to function `getpgrp'".
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368 You have probably installed LessTiff under `/usr/local' and `libXm.so'
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369 could not be found when linking `getpgrp()' test program, making XEmacs
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370 think that `getpgrp()' takes an argument. Try adding `/usr/local/lib'
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371 in `/etc/ld.so.conf' and run `ldconfig'. Then run XEmacs's `configure'
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372 again. As with all problems of this type, reading the config.log file
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374 prove enlightening.
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378 This error message has been observed with lesstif-0.75a. It does not
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379 appear to cause any harm.
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383 This is a Linux problem where you've compiled the XEmacs binary on a libc
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384 5.4 with version higher than 5.4.19 and attempted to run the binary against
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385 an earlier version. The solution is to upgrade your old library.
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389 *** On Irix 6.5, the MIPSpro compiler gets an internal compiler error
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391 The MIPSpro Compiler (at least version 7.2.1) can't seem to handle the
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392 union type properly, and fails to compile src/glyphs.c. To avoid this
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393 problem, always build ---use-union-type=no (but that's the default, so
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394 you should only see this problem if you're an XEmacs maintainer).
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399 There are a couple of problems [with use of -rpath with Irix ld], though:
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401 1. The ld in IRIX 5.3 ignores all but the last -rpath
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402 spec, so the patched configure spits out a warning
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406 fixed sometime between 5.3 and 6.2.
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408 2. IRIX gcc 2.7.2 doesn't accept -rpath directly, so
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409 it would have to be prefixed by -Xlinker or "-Wl,".
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410 This would be fine, except that configure compiles with
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411 ${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ...
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412 rather than quoting $LDFLAGS with prefix-args, like
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413 src/Makefile does. So if you specify --x-libraries
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414 or --site-runtime-libraries, you must use --use-gcc=no,
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415 or configure will fail.
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416
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419 This occurs if you use the SGI linker version 7.1. Installing the
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420 patch SG0001872 fixes this problem.
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424 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
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425 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
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426 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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428 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
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432 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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433 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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434 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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435 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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441 A problem noted by myself and others (I've lost the references) was
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442 that XEmacs coredumped when the cut or copy toolbar buttons were
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443 pressed. This has been fixed by loading the SGI patchset (Feb 98)
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444 without having to recompile XEmacs.
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447 6.2, compiled using -n32. I'd guess that the relevant individual
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448 patch was "SG0002580: multiple fixes for X libraries". SGI recommends
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449 that the complete patch set be installed rather than parts of it.
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452 *** On Digital UNIX, the DEC C compiler might have a problem compiling
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455 In particular, src/extents.c and src/faces.c might cause the DEC C
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456 compiler to abort. When this happens: cd src, compile the files by
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457 hand, cd .., and redo the "make" command. When recompiling the files by
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458 hand, use the old C compiler for the following versions of Digital UNIX:
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459 - V3.n: Remove "-migrate" from the compile command.
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460 - V4.n: Add "-oldc" to the compile command.
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461
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463 new versions of the compiler should run fine.
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466 optimization but will crash randomly if built with optimization.
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467
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468 Using 'cc -g' is not sufficient to eliminate all optimization. Try
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469 'cc -g -O0' instead.
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470
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471 *** Compilation errors on VMS.
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472
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473 Sorry, XEmacs does not work under VMS. You might consider working on
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474 the port if you really want to have XEmacs work under VMS.
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475
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477 *** On HPUX, the HP C compiler might have a problem compiling some files
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478 with optimization.
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480 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
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481
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482 Had to drop once again to level 2 optimization, at least to
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483 compile lstream.c. Otherwise, I get a "variable is void: \if"
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484 problem while dumping (this is a problem I already reported
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485 with vanilla hpux 10.01 and 9.07, which went away after
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486 applying patches for the C compiler). Trouble is I still
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487 haven't found the same patch for hpux 10.10, and I don't
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488 remember the patch numbers. I think potential XEmacs builders
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489 on HP should be warned about this.
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490
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491 *** I don't have `xmkmf' and `imake' on my HP.
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493 You can get these standard X tools by anonymous FTP to
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494 hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com. Essentially all X programs need these.
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501 successfully. You don't need GNU make when building 21.x.
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505 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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507 This might be a sed problem. For your own safety make sure to use
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508 GNU sed while dumping XEmacs.
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509
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511 (also appears on AIX as reported in comp.emacs.xemacs)
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513 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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514
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515 Unfortunately, XEmacs releases prior to 21.0 don't work with
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516 Motif2.1. It will compile but you will get excessive X11 errors like
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518 xemacs: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
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519
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520 and finally XEmacs gets killed. A workaround is to use the
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521 Motif1.2_R6 libraries. You can the following line to your call to
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522 configure:
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523
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524 --x-libraries="/usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6 -L/usr/lib/X11R6"
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526 Make sure /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.sl is a link to
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527 /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.3.
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528
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529 *** On HP-UX 11.0: Object "" does not have windowed ancestor
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530
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531 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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532
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533 XEmacs dies without core file and reports:
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534
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535 Error: Object "" does not have windowed ancestor.
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536
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537 This is a bug. Please apply the patch PHSS_19964 (check if
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538 superseded). The other alternative is to link with Motif1.2_R6 (see
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539 previous item).
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540
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541
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543 *** Native cc on SCO OpenServer 5 is now OK. Icc may still throw you
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544 a curve. Here is what Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com> says:
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545
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454
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546 Unlike XEmacs 19.13, building with the native cc on SCO OpenServer 5
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547 now produces a functional binary. I will typically build this
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548 configuration for COFF with:
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549
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197
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550 /path_to_xemacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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124
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551 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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552 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas
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553
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454
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554 This version now supports ELF builds. I highly recommend this to
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555 reduce the in-core footprint of XEmacs. This is now how I compile
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556 all my test releases. Build it like this:
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557
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558 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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559 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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560 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic
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561
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562 The compiler known as icc [ supplied with the OpenServer 5 Development
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563 System ] generates a working binary, but it takes forever to generate
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564 XEmacs. ICC also whines more about the code than /bin/cc does. I do
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565 believe all its whining is legitimate, however. Note that you do
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566 have to 'cd src ; make LD=icc' to avoid linker errors.
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567
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568 The way I handle the build procedure is:
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569
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570 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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571 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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572 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic --compiler="icc"
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573
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574 NOTE I have the xpm, xface, and audio libraries and includes in
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575 /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include. If you don't have these,
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576 don't include the "--with-*" arguments in any of my examples.
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577
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454
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578 In previous versions of XEmacs, you had to override the defaults while
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579 compiling font-lock.o and extents.o when building with icc. This seems
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580 to no longer be true, but I'm including this old information in case it
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581 resurfaces. The process I used was:
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582
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454
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583 make -k
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584 [ procure pizza, beer, repeat ]
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585 cd src
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586 make CC="icc -W0,-mP1COPT_max_tree_size=3000" font-lock.o extents.o
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587 make LD=icc
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588
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454
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589 If you want sound support, get the tls566 supplement from
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590 ftp.sco.com:/TLS or any of its mirrors. It works just groovy
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591 with XEmacs.
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592
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593 The M-x manual-entry is known not to work. If you know Lisp and would
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594 like help in making it work, e-mail me at <robertl@dgii.com>.
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595 (UNCHECKED for 19.15 -- it might work).
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596
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597 In earlier releases, gnuserv/gnuclient/gnudoit would open a frame
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598 just fine, but the client would lock up and the server would
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454
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599 terminate when you used C-x # to close the frame. This is now
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600 fixed in XEmacs.
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601
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602 In etc/ there are two files of note. emacskeys.sco and emacsstrs.sco.
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603 The comments at the top of emacskeys.sco describe its function, and
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604 the emacstrs.sco is a suitable candidate for /usr/lib/keyboard/strings
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605 to take advantage of the keyboard map in emacskeys.sco.
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606
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607 Note: Much of the above entry is probably not valid for XEmacs 21.0
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608 and later.
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610 ** Cygwin
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392
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612 *** In general use etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh to trap environment problems.
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613
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614 The script etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh will attempt to detect whether
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524
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615 you have a suitable environment for building. This script may not work
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392
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616 correctly if you are using ash instead of bash (see below).
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617
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524
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618 *** Syntax errors running configure scripts, make failing with exit code 127
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619 in inexplicable situations, etc.
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620
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524
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621 This may be because you are using the default cygwin shell. The
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622 default cygwin shell (/bin/sh.exe) is ash which appears to work in
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623 most circumstances but has some weird failure modes. You need to
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624 replace the symlink with bash.exe.
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392
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625
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524
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626 *** Lots of compile errors, esp. on lines containing macro definitions
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627 terminated by backslashes.
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392
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628
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524
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629 Your partition holding the source files is mounted binary. It needs
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630 to be mounted text. (This will not screw up any binary files because
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631 the Cygwin utilities specify explicitly whether they want binary or
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632 text mode when working with source vs. binary files, which overrides
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633 the mount type.) To fix this, you just need to run the appropriate
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634 mount command once -- afterwards, the settings are remembered in the
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635 registry.
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392
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636
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524
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637 *** Errors from make like /c:not found.
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392
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638
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524
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639 Make sure you set the environment variable MAKE_MODE to UNIX in your
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640 .bashrc, Control Panel (Windows 2000/NT), or AUTOEXEC.BAT (Windows
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641 98/95).
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392
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642
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643 *** The info files will not build.
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644
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524
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645 makeinfo that ships with Cygwin (all versions) doesn't work. You need to
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392
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646 obtain makeinfo from somewhere or build it yourself.
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647
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524
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648 *** XEmacs hangs while attempting to rebuild the .elc files.
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392
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649
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524
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650 Check to make sure you're not configuring with rel-alloc. The relocating
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651 allocator does not currently work under Cygwin due to bugs in Cygwin's
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652 mmap().
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653
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524
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654 *** Trying to build with X, but X11 not detected.
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655
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656 This is usually because xmkmf is not in your path or because you are
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657 using the default cygwin shell. (See above.)
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658
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659
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660 * Problems with running XEmacs
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661 ==============================
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662 ** General
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663 *** Starting with 21.4.x, killing text is absurdly slow.
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664
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665 See FAQ Q3.10.6. Should be available on the web near
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666 http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html#SEC160.
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667
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835
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668 *** Whenever I try to retrieve a remote file, I have problems.
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669
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670 A typical error: FTP Error: USER request failed; 500 AUTH not understood.
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671 Thanks to giacomo boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> on comp.emacs.xemacs:
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672
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673 tell your ftp client to not attempt AUTH authentication (or do not
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674 use FTP servers that don't understand AUTH)
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675
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676 and notes that you need to add an element (often "-u") to
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677 `efs-ftp-program-args'. Use M-x customize-variable, and verify the
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678 needed flag with `man ftp' or other local documentation.
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679
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464
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680 *** gnuserv is running, some clients can connect, but others cannot.
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681
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682 The code in gnuslib.c respects the value of TMPDIR. If the server and
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683 the client have different values in their environment, you lose.
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684 One program known to set TMPDIR and manifest this problem is exmh.
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685 You can defeat the use of TMPDIR by unsetting USE_TMPDIR at the top of
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686 gnuserv.h at build time.
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687
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688 *** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
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689
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690 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
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691 though the system itself is capable of it. Try using a different
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692 shell.
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693
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373
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694 *** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
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695
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696 Emacs has traditionally used Control-H for help; unfortunately this
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424
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697 interferes with its use as Backspace on TTY's. As of XEmacs 21,
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698 XEmacs looks at the "erase" setting of TTY structures and maps C-h to
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699 backspace when erase is set to C-h. This is sort of a special hack,
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700 but it makes it possible for you to use the standard:
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701
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702 stty erase ^H
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703
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424
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704 to get your backspace key to erase characters. The erase setting is
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705 recorded in the Lisp variable `tty-erase-char', which you can use to
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706 tune the settings in your .emacs.
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708 A major drawback of this is that when C-h becomes backspace, it no
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709 longer invokes help. In that case, you need to use f1 for help, or
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710 bind another key. An example of the latter is the following code,
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711 which moves help to Meta-? (ESC ?):
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712
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713 (global-set-key "\M-?" 'help-command)
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714
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715 *** Mail agents (VM, Gnus, rmail) cannot get new mail
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716
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717 rmail and VM get new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
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718 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using the
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719 protocol defined by /bin/mail.
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720
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721 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
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722 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
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723 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
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724 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, the
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725 macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. IF
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726 YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR SYSTEM,
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727 YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
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728
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729 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
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730 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
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731 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
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732 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing
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733 the make install.
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734
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735 chgrp mail movemail
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736 chmod 2755 movemail
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737
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738 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
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739 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
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740 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
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741 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
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742 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
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743 directory copy is ineffective.
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744
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373
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745 *** VM appears to hang in large folders.
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746
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747 This is normal (trust us) when upgrading to VM-6.22 from earlier
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748 versions. Let VM finish what it is doing and all will be well.
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749
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373
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750 *** Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
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0
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751
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197
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752 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files. Then the
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753 old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes will not be seen. To
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754 fix this, do `M-x byte-recompile-directory' and specify the directory
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755 that contains the Lisp files.
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0
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756
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757 Note that you will get a warning when loading a .elc file that is
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758 older than the corresponding .el file.
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0
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759
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373
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760 *** Things which should be bold or italic (such as the initial
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197
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761 copyright notice) are not.
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0
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762
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197
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763 The fonts of the "bold" and "italic" faces are generated from the font
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764 of the "default" face; in this way, your bold and italic fonts will
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765 have the appropriate size and family. However, emacs can only be
|
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766 clever in this way if you have specified the default font using the
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767 XLFD (X Logical Font Description) format, which looks like
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0
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768
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769 *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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770
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197
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771 if you use any of the other, less strict font name formats, some of
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772 which look like:
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773
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0
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774 lucidasanstypewriter-12
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775 and fixed
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776 and 9x13
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777
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778 then emacs won't be able to guess the names of the "bold" and "italic"
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779 versions. All X fonts can be referred to via XLFD-style names, so you
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780 should use those forms. See the man pages for X(1), xlsfonts(1), and
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781 xfontsel(1).
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782
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373
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783 *** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
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0
|
784
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785 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
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786
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787 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
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788 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
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789 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
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790 value in the man page for a.out (5).
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791
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792 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
|
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793 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
|
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794 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
|
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795 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
|
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796 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
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797
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373
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798 *** Reading and writing files is very very slow.
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0
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799
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800 Try evaluating the form (setq lock-directory nil) and see if that helps.
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801 There is a problem with file-locking on some systems (possibly related
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454
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802 to NFS) that I don't understand. Please send mail to the address
|
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0
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803 xemacs@xemacs.org if you figure this one out.
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804
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373
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805 *** When emacs starts up, I get lots of warnings about unknown keysyms.
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124
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806
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807 If you are running the prebuilt binaries, the Motif library expects to find
|
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808 certain thing in the XKeysymDB file. This file is normally in /usr/lib/X11/
|
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809 or in /usr/openwin/lib/. If you keep yours in a different place, set the
|
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454
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810 environment variable $XKEYSYMDB to point to it before starting emacs. If
|
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811 you still have the problem after doing that, perhaps your version of X is
|
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124
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812 too old. There is a copy of the MIT X11R5 XKeysymDB file in the emacs `etc'
|
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|
813 directory. Try using that one.
|
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814
|
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373
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815 *** My X resources used to work, and now some of them are being ignored.
|
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0
|
816
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124
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817 Check the resources in .../etc/Emacs.ad (which is the same as the file
|
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454
|
818 sample.Xdefaults). Perhaps some of the default resources built in to
|
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124
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819 emacs are now overriding your existing resources. Copy and edit the
|
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820 resources in Emacs.ad as necessary.
|
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821
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373
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822 *** I have focus problems when I use `M-o' to switch to another screen
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197
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823 without using the mouse.
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124
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824
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197
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825 The focus issues with a program like XEmacs, which has multiple
|
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826 homogeneous top-level windows, are very complicated, and as a result,
|
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|
827 most window managers don't implement them correctly.
|
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0
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828
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124
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829 The R4/R5 version of twm (and all of its descendants) had buggy focus
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197
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830 handling. Sufficiently recent versions of tvtwm have been fixed. In
|
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831 addition, if you're using twm, make sure you have not specified
|
|
|
832 "NoTitleFocus" in your .tvtwmrc file. The very nature of this option
|
|
|
833 makes twm do some illegal focus tricks, even with the patch.
|
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0
|
834
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197
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835 It is known that olwm and olvwm are buggy, and in different ways. If
|
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836 you're using click-to-type mode, try using point-to-type, or vice
|
|
|
837 versa.
|
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0
|
838
|
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197
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839 In older versions of NCDwm, one could not even type at XEmacs windows.
|
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840 This has been fixed in newer versions (2.4.3, and possibly earlier).
|
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0
|
841
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197
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842 (Many people suggest that XEmacs should warp the mouse when focusing
|
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843 on another screen in point-to-type mode. This is not ICCCM-compliant
|
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844 behavior. Implementing such policy is the responsibility of the
|
|
|
845 window manager itself, it is not legal for a client to do this.)
|
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0
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846
|
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373
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847 *** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
|
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0
|
848
|
|
|
849 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
|
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|
850 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
|
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|
851 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
|
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|
852 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
|
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|
853 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
|
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|
854 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
|
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855 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
|
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856 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
|
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857
|
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858 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
|
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859
|
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860 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
|
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861 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
|
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|
862 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
|
|
|
863
|
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|
864 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
|
|
|
865 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
|
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|
866 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
|
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|
867 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
|
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|
868 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
|
|
|
869 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
|
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|
870
|
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|
871 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
|
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|
872 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
|
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|
873 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
|
|
|
874 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
|
|
|
875 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
|
|
|
876 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
|
|
|
877 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
|
|
|
878 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
|
|
|
879 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
|
|
|
880
|
|
|
881 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
|
|
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882 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
|
|
|
883 codes. You might as well try it.
|
|
|
884
|
|
|
885 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
|
|
|
886 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
|
|
|
887 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
|
|
|
888 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
|
|
|
889 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
|
|
|
890 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
|
|
|
891 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
|
|
|
892 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
|
|
|
893
|
|
|
894 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
|
|
|
895 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
|
|
|
896 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
|
|
|
897 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
|
|
|
898 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
|
|
|
899 control handling.)
|
|
|
900
|
|
|
901 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
|
|
|
902 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
|
|
|
903 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
|
|
|
904 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
|
|
|
905 other control characters are already used by emacs.
|
|
|
906
|
|
|
907 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
|
|
|
908 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
|
|
|
909 order to continue.
|
|
|
910
|
|
|
911 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
|
|
|
912 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
|
|
|
913 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
|
|
|
914 automatically. Here is an example:
|
|
|
915
|
|
|
916 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
|
|
917
|
|
|
918 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
|
|
|
919 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
|
|
|
920 manually.
|
|
|
921
|
|
|
922 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
|
|
|
923 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
|
|
|
924 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
|
|
|
925 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
|
|
|
926 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
|
|
|
927 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
|
|
|
928 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
|
|
|
929 of inferior systems.
|
|
|
930
|
|
373
|
931 *** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
|
|
0
|
932
|
|
|
933 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
|
|
|
934 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
|
|
|
935 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
|
|
|
936 that wants to use flow control.
|
|
|
937
|
|
|
938 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
|
|
|
939 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
|
|
|
940 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
|
|
|
941
|
|
|
942 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
|
|
|
943 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
|
|
|
944 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
|
|
|
945
|
|
373
|
946 *** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net
|
|
197
|
947 connection.
|
|
0
|
948
|
|
|
949 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
|
|
|
950 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
|
|
|
951 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
|
|
|
952 control on the local system.
|
|
|
953
|
|
|
954 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
|
|
|
955 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
|
|
|
956 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
|
|
120
|
957 `stty start u stop u' will do this.
|
|
0
|
958
|
|
|
959 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
|
|
|
960 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
|
|
|
961 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
|
|
|
962
|
|
|
963 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
|
|
120
|
964 `M-x enable-flow-control' at the beginning of your emacs session, or
|
|
0
|
965 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
|
|
|
966 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
|
|
|
967
|
|
|
968 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
|
|
969
|
|
|
970 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
|
|
|
971 info.
|
|
|
972
|
|
373
|
973 *** TTY redisplay is slow.
|
|
197
|
974
|
|
|
975 XEmacs has fairly new TTY redisplay support (beginning from 19.12),
|
|
|
976 which doesn't include some basic TTY optimizations -- like using
|
|
|
977 scrolling regions to move around blocks of text. This is why
|
|
454
|
978 redisplay on the traditional terminals, or over slow lines can be very
|
|
197
|
979 slow.
|
|
|
980
|
|
|
981 If you are interested in fixing this, please let us know at
|
|
|
982 <xemacs@xemacs.org>.
|
|
|
983
|
|
373
|
984 *** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
|
|
0
|
985
|
|
120
|
986 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that terminal
|
|
|
987 is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing the
|
|
|
988 combination of features specified for that terminal.
|
|
0
|
989
|
|
|
990 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
|
|
|
991 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
|
|
120
|
992 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all terminal
|
|
|
993 output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do what makes the
|
|
|
994 screen update wrong, and look at the file and decode the characters
|
|
|
995 using the manual for the terminal. There are several possibilities:
|
|
0
|
996
|
|
|
997 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
|
|
|
998
|
|
|
999 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
|
|
|
1000 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
|
|
|
1001
|
|
120
|
1002 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect of the
|
|
|
1003 terminal behavior not described in an obvious way by termcap.
|
|
0
|
1004
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|
120
|
1005 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for Emacs
|
|
|
1006 to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior and other
|
|
|
1007 terminals that behave subtly differently but are classified the same
|
|
|
1008 by termcap; or else find an algorithm for Emacs to use that avoids the
|
|
|
1009 difference. Such changes must be tested on many kinds of terminals.
|
|
0
|
1010
|
|
|
1011 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
|
|
|
1012
|
|
120
|
1013 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes that are known to be
|
|
|
1014 needed in commonly used termcap entries for certain terminals.
|
|
0
|
1015
|
|
120
|
1016 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be right for
|
|
|
1017 any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
|
|
0
|
1018
|
|
120
|
1019 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed in
|
|
197
|
1020 termcap.c, terminfo.c, tparam.c, cm.c, redisplay-tty.c,
|
|
|
1021 redisplay-output.c, or redisplay.c.
|
|
0
|
1022
|
|
373
|
1023 *** My buffers are full of \000 characters or otherwise corrupt.
|
|
|
1024
|
|
|
1025 Some compilers have trouble with gmalloc.c and ralloc.c; try recompiling
|
|
|
1026 without optimization. If that doesn't work, try recompiling with
|
|
|
1027 SYSTEM_MALLOC defined, and/or with REL_ALLOC undefined.
|
|
|
1028
|
|
|
1029 *** A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
|
|
|
1030
|
|
|
1031 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
|
|
|
1032 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
|
|
|
1033
|
|
|
1034 UsePPosition "on" #allow clents to request a position
|
|
|
1035
|
|
|
1036 *** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice to do
|
|
|
1037 incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
|
|
|
1038
|
|
|
1039 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
|
|
|
1040 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
|
|
|
1041 another escape character in kermit. One user did
|
|
|
1042
|
|
|
1043 set escape-character 17
|
|
|
1044
|
|
|
1045 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
|
|
|
1046
|
|
|
1047 *** The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
|
|
|
1048
|
|
|
1049 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
|
|
|
1050
|
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1051 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
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1052
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1053 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
|
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1054 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
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1055 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
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1056 the resource prevents the problem.
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1057
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1058 *** After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
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1059
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1060 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
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1061 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
|
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1062 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
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1063
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1064 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
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1065 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
|
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1066 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
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1067 configure script) that reads:
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1068 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
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1069 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
|
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1070 the kernel bug.
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1071
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1072 *** Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
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1073 directly with an X server.
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1074
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1075 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
|
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1076 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
|
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1077 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
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1078 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
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1079 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
|
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1080 have made the key binding correctly.
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1081
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1082 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
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1083 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
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1084 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
|
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1085 default.
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1086
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1087 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
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1088
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1089 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
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1090 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
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1091
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1092 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
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1093 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
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1094 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
|
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1095 modifier bit not otherwise used.
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1096
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1097 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
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1098 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
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1099 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
|
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1100 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
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1101
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1102 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
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|
1103 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
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1104
|
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|
1105 *** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
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1106
|
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1107 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
|
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|
1108 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
|
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1109 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
|
|
|
1110 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
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1111
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1112 if ($?EMACS) then
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1113 if ($EMACS == "t") then
|
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454
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1114 unset edit
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373
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1115 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
|
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1116 endif
|
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1117 endif
|
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1118
|
|
|
1119 *** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
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|
1120 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
|
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1121
|
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1122 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
|
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1123 emacs*Cursor: black
|
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1124 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
|
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1125 that isn't a color.)
|
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1126
|
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1127 The fix is to correct your X resources.
|
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1128
|
|
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1129 *** Once you pull down a menu from the menubar, it won't go away.
|
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1130
|
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1131 It has been claimed that this is caused by a bug in certain very old
|
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|
1132 (1990?) versions of the twm window manager. It doesn't happen with
|
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1133 recent vintages, or with other window managers.
|
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1134
|
|
|
1135 *** Emacs ignores the "help" key when running OLWM.
|
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1136
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|
1137 OLWM grabs the help key, and retransmits it to the appropriate client
|
|
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1138 using XSendEvent. Allowing emacs to react to synthetic events is a
|
|
|
1139 security hole, so this is turned off by default. You can enable it by
|
|
|
1140 setting the variable x-allow-sendevents to t. You can also cause fix
|
|
|
1141 this by telling OLWM to not grab the help key, with the null binding
|
|
|
1142 "OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.Help:".
|
|
|
1143
|
|
|
1144 *** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
|
|
|
1145 terminal type.
|
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|
1146
|
|
|
1147 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
|
|
|
1148 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
|
|
|
1149 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
|
|
|
1150 emulates.
|
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|
1151
|
|
|
1152 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
|
|
|
1153 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
|
|
|
1154 it only if it is undefined.
|
|
|
1155
|
|
|
1156 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
|
|
|
1157
|
|
|
1158 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
|
|
|
1159 happen in a non-login shell.
|
|
|
1160
|
|
442
|
1161 *** The popup menu appears at the bottom/right of my screen.
|
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373
|
1162
|
|
|
1163 You probably have something like the following in your ~/.Xdefaults
|
|
|
1164
|
|
|
1165 Emacs.geometry: 81x56--9--1
|
|
|
1166
|
|
|
1167 Use the following instead
|
|
|
1168
|
|
|
1169 Emacs*EmacsFrame.geometry: 81x56--9--1
|
|
|
1170
|
|
|
1171
|
|
|
1172 ** AIX
|
|
|
1173 *** Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
|
|
0
|
1174
|
|
|
1175 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
|
|
|
1176
|
|
|
1177 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
|
|
|
1178 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
|
|
|
1179
|
|
|
1180 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
|
|
|
1181
|
|
373
|
1182 *** On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
|
|
|
1183 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
|
|
124
|
1184
|
|
373
|
1185 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
|
|
|
1186 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
|
|
|
1187 Definitions" to make them defined.
|
|
124
|
1188
|
|
373
|
1189 *** On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
|
|
0
|
1190
|
|
373
|
1191 Could not load program emacs
|
|
|
1192 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1193 Error was: Exec format error
|
|
124
|
1194
|
|
373
|
1195 or this one:
|
|
0
|
1196
|
|
373
|
1197 Could not load program .emacs
|
|
|
1198 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1199 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1200 Error was: Exec format error
|
|
124
|
1201
|
|
373
|
1202 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
|
|
|
1203 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
|
|
124
|
1204
|
|
373
|
1205 *** Trouble using ptys on AIX.
|
|
|
1206
|
|
|
1207 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
|
|
|
1208 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
|
|
|
1209
|
|
0
|
1210
|
|
373
|
1211 ** SunOS/Solaris
|
|
|
1212 *** The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
|
|
197
|
1213
|
|
373
|
1214 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
|
|
|
1215 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
|
|
|
1216 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
|
|
|
1217 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
|
|
|
1218 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
|
|
0
|
1219
|
|
373
|
1220 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
|
|
|
1221
|
|
|
1222 *** When Emacs tries to ring the bell, you get an error like
|
|
124
|
1223
|
|
|
1224 audio: sst_open: SETQSIZE" Invalid argument
|
|
|
1225 audio: sst_close: SETREG MMR2, Invalid argument
|
|
|
1226
|
|
197
|
1227 you have probably compiled using an ANSI C compiler, but with non-ANSI
|
|
|
1228 include files. In particular, on Suns, the file
|
|
|
1229 /usr/include/sun/audioio.h uses the _IOW macro to define the constant
|
|
|
1230 AUDIOSETQSIZE. _IOW in turn uses a K&R preprocessor feature that is
|
|
|
1231 now explicitly forbidden in ANSI preprocessors, namely substitution
|
|
|
1232 inside character constants. All ANSI C compilers must provide a
|
|
|
1233 workaround for this problem. Lucid's C compiler is shipped with a new
|
|
|
1234 set of system include files. If you are using GCC, there is a script
|
|
|
1235 called fixincludes that creates new versions of some system include
|
|
|
1236 files that use this obsolete feature.
|
|
124
|
1237
|
|
373
|
1238 *** On Solaris 2.6, XEmacs dumps core when exiting.
|
|
0
|
1239
|
|
373
|
1240 This happens if you're XEmacs is running on the same machine as the X
|
|
|
1241 server, and the optimized memory transport has been turned on by
|
|
|
1242 setting the environment variable XSUNTRANSPORT. The crash occurs
|
|
|
1243 during the call to XCloseDisplay.
|
|
124
|
1244
|
|
373
|
1245 If this describes your situation, you need to undefine the
|
|
|
1246 XSUNTRANSPORT environment variable.
|
|
126
|
1247
|
|
373
|
1248 *** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
|
|
124
|
1249
|
|
373
|
1250 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
|
|
|
1251 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
|
|
124
|
1252
|
|
373
|
1253 *** On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
|
|
197
|
1254 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
|
|
124
|
1255
|
|
|
1256 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
|
|
|
1257 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
|
|
|
1258
|
|
|
1259 #if ThreadedX
|
|
|
1260 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
|
|
|
1261 #endif
|
|
|
1262
|
|
|
1263 to:
|
|
|
1264
|
|
|
1265 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
|
|
|
1266 #if ThreadedX
|
|
|
1267 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
|
|
|
1268 #endif
|
|
|
1269 #endif
|
|
|
1270
|
|
|
1271 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
|
|
|
1272 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
|
|
|
1273 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
|
|
|
1274 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
|
|
|
1275 definition for your type of machine and system.
|
|
|
1276
|
|
|
1277 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
|
|
|
1278 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
|
|
|
1279 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
|
|
|
1280
|
|
|
1281 For multithreaded X to work it necessary to install patch
|
|
|
1282 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
|
|
|
1283 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
|
|
|
1284 patch.
|
|
0
|
1285
|
|
124
|
1286 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
|
|
|
1287 he changed
|
|
|
1288 #define ThreadedX YES
|
|
|
1289 to
|
|
|
1290 #define ThreadedX NO
|
|
|
1291 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
|
|
|
1292 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
|
|
|
1293 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
|
|
|
1294
|
|
373
|
1295 *** On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
|
|
124
|
1296
|
|
373
|
1297 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
|
|
|
1298 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
|
|
|
1299 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
|
|
|
1300 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
|
|
124
|
1301
|
|
373
|
1302 *** Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
|
|
0
|
1303
|
|
124
|
1304 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
|
|
|
1305 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
|
|
|
1306 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
|
|
|
1307 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
|
|
|
1308 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
|
|
|
1309 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
|
|
|
1310 obtain the destination address.
|
|
|
1311
|
|
|
1312 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
|
|
|
1313 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
|
|
|
1314 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
|
|
|
1315 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
|
|
|
1316 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
|
|
|
1317 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
|
|
|
1318 of this writing, these official versions are available:
|
|
|
1319
|
|
|
1320 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
|
|
|
1321 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
|
|
|
1322 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
|
|
|
1323 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
|
|
|
1324 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
|
|
|
1325
|
|
|
1326 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
|
|
|
1327 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
|
|
|
1328
|
|
373
|
1329 *** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
|
|
124
|
1330 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
|
|
197
|
1331 Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
|
|
|
1332 Gnus can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
|
|
0
|
1333
|
|
124
|
1334 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
|
|
|
1335 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
|
|
|
1336 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
|
|
|
1337 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
|
|
0
|
1338
|
|
124
|
1339 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
|
|
|
1340 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
|
|
|
1341
|
|
|
1342 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
|
|
|
1343 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
|
|
0
|
1344
|
|
124
|
1345 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
|
|
|
1346
|
|
|
1347 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
|
|
|
1348 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
|
|
|
1349 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
|
|
|
1350 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
|
|
|
1351 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
|
|
|
1352 be careful not to lose the others.
|
|
|
1353
|
|
|
1354 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
|
|
|
1355
|
|
|
1356 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
|
|
|
1357
|
|
|
1358 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
|
|
|
1359 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
|
|
|
1360 again to say this:
|
|
|
1361
|
|
|
1362 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
|
|
|
1363
|
|
373
|
1364 *** With process-connection-type set to t, each line of subprocess
|
|
|
1365 output is terminated with a ^M, making ange-ftp and GNUS not work.
|
|
|
1366
|
|
|
1367 On SunOS systems, this problem has been seen to be a result of an
|
|
|
1368 incomplete installation of gcc 2.2 which allowed some non-ANSI
|
|
|
1369 compatible include files into the compilation. In particular this
|
|
|
1370 affected virtually all ioctl() calls.
|
|
|
1371
|
|
|
1372
|
|
|
1373 ** Linux
|
|
845
|
1374 *** XEmacs crashes on startup, in make-frame.
|
|
|
1375
|
|
|
1376 Typically the Lisp backtrace includes
|
|
|
1377
|
|
|
1378 make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x2558>)
|
|
|
1379
|
|
|
1380 somewhere near the top. The problem is due to an improvement in GNU
|
|
|
1381 ld that sorts the ELF reloc sections in the executable, giving
|
|
|
1382 dramatic speedups in startup for large executables. It also confuses
|
|
|
1383 the traditional unexec code in XEmacs, leading to the core dump. The
|
|
|
1384 solution is to use the --pdump or --ldflags='-z nocombreloc' options
|
|
|
1385 to configure. Recent 21.4 and 12.5 autodetect this in configure.
|
|
|
1386
|
|
|
1387 Red Hat and SuSE (at least) distributed a prerelease version of ld
|
|
|
1388 (versions around 2.11.90.x.y) where autodetection is impossible. The
|
|
|
1389 recommended procedure is to upgrade to binutils >= 2.12 and rerun
|
|
|
1390 configure. Otherwise you must apply the flags by hand. --pdump is
|
|
|
1391 recommended.
|
|
448
|
1392
|
|
|
1393 *** I want XEmacs to use the Alt key, not the XXX key, for Meta commands
|
|
|
1394
|
|
|
1395 For historical reasons, XEmacs looks for a Meta key, then an Alt key.
|
|
|
1396 It binds Meta commands to the X11 modifier bit attached to the first
|
|
|
1397 of these it finds. On PCs, the Windows key is often assigned the Meta
|
|
|
1398 bit, but many desktop environments go to great lengths to get all apps
|
|
|
1399 to use the Alt key, and reserve the Windows key to (sensibly enough)
|
|
|
1400 the window manager.
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1401
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1402 One correct way to implement this was suggested on comp.emacs.xemacs
|
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1403 (by Kilian Foth and in more detail by Michael Piotrowski): unmap the
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1404 Meta modifier using xmodmap or xkb, and then map the Meta/Windows key
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450
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1405 to the Super or Hyper keysym and an appropriate mod bit. XEmacs will
|
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1406 not find the Meta keysym, and default to using the Alt key for Meta
|
|
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1407 keybindings. Typically few applications use the (X11) Meta modifier;
|
|
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1408 it is tedious but not too much so to teach the ones you need to use
|
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1409 Super instead of Meta. There may be further useful hints in the
|
|
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1410 discussion of keymapping on non-Linux platforms.
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1411
|
|
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1412 *** The color-gcc wrapper
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1413
|
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1414 This wrapper colorizes the error messages from gcc. By default XEmacs
|
|
|
1415 does not interpret the escape sequences used to generate colors,
|
|
|
1416 resulting in a cluttered, hard-to-read buffer. You can remove the
|
|
|
1417 wrapper, or defeat the wrapper colorization in Emacs process buffers
|
|
|
1418 by editing the "nocolor" attribute in /etc/colorgccrc:
|
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1419
|
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1420 $ diff -u /etc/colorgccrc.old /etc/colorgccrc
|
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1421 --- /etc/colorgccrc.old Tue Dec 26 02:17:46 2000
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1422 +++ /etc/colorgccrc Tue Dec 26 02:15:48 2000
|
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1423 @@ -34,1 +34,1 @@
|
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1424 -nocolor: dumb
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1425 +nocolor: dumb emacs
|
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1426
|
|
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1427 If you want colorization in your Emacs buffers, you may get good
|
|
|
1428 results from the ansi-color.el library:
|
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1429
|
|
|
1430 http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/color-emacs.html#ansicolors
|
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1431
|
|
|
1432 This is written for the mainline GNU Emacs but the author has made
|
|
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1433 efforts to adapt it to XEmacs. YMMV.
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448
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1434
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373
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1435 *** Slow startup on Linux.
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1436
|
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1437 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
|
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448
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1438 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'. There are two
|
|
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1439 problems, one older, one newer.
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1440
|
|
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1441 **** Old problem: IPv4 host lookup
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373
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1442
|
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448
|
1443 On older systems, this is because Emacs looks up the host name when it
|
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1444 starts. Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due
|
|
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1445 to improper system configuration. (Recent Linux distros usually have
|
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1446 this configuration correct "out of the box".) This problem can occur
|
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1447 for both networked and non-networked machines.
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373
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1448
|
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1449 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
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1450
|
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448
|
1451 ***** Networked Case
|
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373
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1452
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1453 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
|
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1454 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
|
|
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1455 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
|
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1456
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1457 127.0.0.1 localhost HOSTNAME
|
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1458
|
|
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1459 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
|
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1460 lines:
|
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1461
|
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454
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1462 order hosts, bind
|
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373
|
1463 multi on
|
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1464
|
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1465 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
|
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1466 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
|
|
|
1467 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
|
|
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1468 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
|
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1469
|
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448
|
1470 ***** Non-Networked Case
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373
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1471
|
|
|
1472 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
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1473 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
|
|
|
1474 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
|
|
|
1475 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
|
|
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1476 file is not necessary with this approach.
|
|
|
1477
|
|
448
|
1478 **** New problem: IPv6 CNAME lookup
|
|
|
1479
|
|
|
1480 A newer problem is due to XEmacs changing to use the modern
|
|
|
1481 getaddrinfo() interface from the older gethostbyname() interface. The
|
|
|
1482 solution above is insufficient, because getaddrinfo() by default tries
|
|
|
1483 to get IPv6 information for localhost. This always involves a dns
|
|
|
1484 lookup to get the CNAME, and the strategies above don't work. It then
|
|
724
|
1485 falls back to IPv4 behavior. This is good[tm] according the people at
|
|
|
1486 WIDE who know about IPv6.
|
|
448
|
1487
|
|
|
1488 ***** Robust network case
|
|
|
1489
|
|
|
1490 Configure your network so that there are no nameservers configured
|
|
|
1491 until the network is actually running. getaddrinfo() will not try to
|
|
|
1492 access a nameserver that isn't configured.
|
|
|
1493
|
|
|
1494 ***** Flaky network case
|
|
|
1495
|
|
|
1496 If you have a flaky modem or DSL connection that can be relied on only
|
|
|
1497 to go down whenever you want to bring XEmacs up, you need to force
|
|
|
1498 IPv4 behavior. Explicitly setting DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 (or whatever
|
|
|
1499 is appropriate) works in most cases.
|
|
|
1500
|
|
|
1501 If you cannot or do not want to do that, you can hard code IPv4
|
|
|
1502 behavior in src/process-unix.c. This is bad[tm], on your own head be
|
|
724
|
1503 it. Use the configure option `--with-ipv6-cname=no'.
|
|
373
|
1504
|
|
845
|
1505 *** Mandrake
|
|
|
1506
|
|
|
1507 The Mandrake Linux distribution is attempting to comprehensively
|
|
|
1508 update the user interface, and make it consistent across
|
|
|
1509 applications. This is very difficult, and will occasionally cause
|
|
|
1510 conflicts with applications like Emacs with their own long-established
|
|
|
1511 interfaces. Known issues specific to Mandrake or especially common:
|
|
|
1512
|
|
|
1513 Some versions of XEmacs (21.1.9 is known) distributed with Mandrake
|
|
|
1514 were patched to make the Meta and Alt keysyms synonymous. These
|
|
|
1515 normally work as expected in the Mandrake environment. However,
|
|
|
1516 custom-built XEmacsen (including all 21.2 betas) will "inexplicably"
|
|
|
1517 not respect the "Alt-invokes-Meta-commands" convention. See "I want
|
|
|
1518 XEmacs to use the Alt key" below.
|
|
|
1519
|
|
|
1520 The color-gcc wrapper (see below) is in common use on the Mandrake
|
|
|
1521 platform.
|
|
|
1522
|
|
|
1523 *** You get crashes in a non-C locale with Linux GNU Libc 2.0.
|
|
|
1524
|
|
|
1525 Internationalization was not the top priority for GNU Libc 2.0.
|
|
|
1526 As of this writing (1998-12-28) you may get crashes while running
|
|
|
1527 XEmacs in a non-C locale. For example, `LC_ALL=en_US xemacs' crashes
|
|
|
1528 while `LC_ALL=C xemacs' runs fine. This happens for example with GNU
|
|
|
1529 libc 2.0.7. Installing libintl.a and libintl.h built from gettext
|
|
|
1530 0.10.35 and re-building XEmacs solves the crashes. Presumably soon
|
|
|
1531 everyone will upgrade to GNU Libc 2.1 and this problem will go away.
|
|
|
1532
|
|
|
1533 *** `C-z', or `M-x suspend-emacs' hangs instead of suspending.
|
|
|
1534
|
|
|
1535 If you build with `gpm' support on Linux, you cannot suspend XEmacs
|
|
|
1536 because gpm installs a buggy SIGTSTP handler. Either compile with
|
|
|
1537 `--with-gpm=no', or don't suspend XEmacs on the Linux console until
|
|
|
1538 this bug is fixed.
|
|
|
1539
|
|
|
1540 *** With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
|
|
|
1541 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
|
|
|
1542
|
|
|
1543 One user on a Linux system reported that this problem went away with
|
|
|
1544 installation of a new X server. The failing server was XFree86 3.1.1.
|
|
|
1545 XFree86 3.1.2 works.
|
|
|
1546
|
|
373
|
1547 ** IRIX
|
|
|
1548 *** On Irix, I don't see the toolbar icons and I'm getting lots of
|
|
|
1549 entries in the warnings buffer.
|
|
|
1550
|
|
|
1551 SGI ships a really old Xpm library in /usr/lib which does not work at
|
|
|
1552 all well with XEmacs. The solution is to install your own copy of the
|
|
|
1553 latest version of Xpm somewhere and then use the --site-includes and
|
|
|
1554 --site-libraries flags to tell configure where to find it.
|
|
|
1555
|
|
|
1556 *** Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
|
|
|
1557
|
|
|
1558 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
|
|
|
1559 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
|
|
|
1560 to allocate ptys reliably.
|
|
|
1561
|
|
|
1562 *** Motif dialog boxes lose on Irix.
|
|
|
1563
|
|
|
1564 Larry Auton <lda@control.att.com> writes:
|
|
|
1565 Beware of not specifying
|
|
|
1566
|
|
|
1567 --with-dialogs=athena
|
|
|
1568
|
|
|
1569 if it builds with the motif dialogs [boom!] you're a dead man.
|
|
|
1570
|
|
|
1571 *** Beware of the default image & graphics library on Irix
|
|
|
1572
|
|
|
1573 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
|
|
|
1574
|
|
|
1575 You *have* to compile your own jpeg lib. The one delivered with SGI
|
|
|
1576 systems is a C++ lib, which apparently XEmacs cannot cope with.
|
|
|
1577
|
|
|
1578
|
|
|
1579 ** Digital UNIX/OSF/VMS/Ultrix
|
|
|
1580 *** XEmacs crashes on Digital Unix within font-lock, or when dealing
|
|
|
1581 with large compilation buffers.
|
|
|
1582
|
|
|
1583 The default stack size under Digital Unix is rather small (2M as
|
|
|
1584 opposed to Solaris 8M), hosing the regexp code, which uses alloca()
|
|
|
1585 extensively, overflowing the stack when complex regexps are used.
|
|
|
1586 Workarounds:
|
|
312
|
1587
|
|
373
|
1588 1) Increase your stack size, using `ulimit -s 8192' or a (t)csh
|
|
|
1589 equivalent;
|
|
|
1590
|
|
|
1591 2) Recompile regex.c with REGEX_MALLOC defined.
|
|
|
1592
|
|
|
1593 *** The `Alt' key doesn't behave as `Meta' when running DECwindows.
|
|
|
1594
|
|
|
1595 The default DEC keyboard mapping has the Alt keys set up to generate the
|
|
|
1596 keysym `Multi_key', which has a meaning to xemacs which is distinct from that
|
|
|
1597 of the `Meta_L' and `Meta-R' keysyms. A second problem is that certain keys
|
|
|
1598 have the Mod2 modifier attached to them for no adequately explored reason.
|
|
|
1599 The correct fix is to pass this file to xmodmap upon starting X:
|
|
|
1600
|
|
|
1601 clear mod2
|
|
|
1602 keysym Multi_key = Alt_L
|
|
|
1603 add mod1 = Alt_L
|
|
|
1604 add mod1 = Alt_R
|
|
|
1605
|
|
|
1606 *** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
|
|
|
1607
|
|
|
1608 This shell command should fix it:
|
|
|
1609
|
|
|
1610 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
|
|
|
1611
|
|
|
1612 *** `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped
|
|
|
1613 Emacs on.
|
|
|
1614
|
|
|
1615 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
|
|
|
1616 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
|
|
|
1617 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
|
|
|
1618 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
|
|
|
1619
|
|
|
1620 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
|
|
|
1621 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
|
|
|
1622
|
|
|
1623 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
|
|
|
1624 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
|
|
|
1625 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
|
|
|
1626 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
|
|
|
1627
|
|
|
1628
|
|
|
1629 ** HP-UX
|
|
|
1630 *** I get complaints about the mapping of my HP keyboard at startup,
|
|
|
1631 but I haven't changed anything.
|
|
|
1632
|
|
|
1633 The default HP keymap is set up to have Mod1 assigned to two different keys:
|
|
|
1634 Meta_L and Mode_switch (even though there is not actually a Mode_switch key on
|
|
|
1635 the keyboard -- it uses an "imaginary" keycode.) There actually is a reason
|
|
|
1636 for this, but it's not a good one. The correct fix is to execute this command
|
|
|
1637 upon starting X:
|
|
|
1638
|
|
|
1639 xmodmap -e 'remove mod1 = Mode_switch'
|
|
312
|
1640
|
|
373
|
1641 *** On HP-UX, you get "poll: Interrupted system call" message in the
|
|
|
1642 window where XEmacs was launched.
|
|
|
1643
|
|
|
1644 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
|
|
|
1645
|
|
|
1646 I get a very strange problem when linking libc.a dynamically: every
|
|
|
1647 event (mouse, keyboard, expose...) results in a "poll: Interrupted
|
|
|
1648 system call" message in the window where XEmacs was
|
|
|
1649 launched. Forcing a static link of libc.a alone by adding
|
|
|
1650 /usr/lib/libc.a at the end of the link line solves this. Note that
|
|
|
1651 my 9.07 build of 19.14b17 and my (old) build of 19.13 both exhibit
|
|
442
|
1652 the same behavior. I've tried various hpux patches to no avail. If
|
|
373
|
1653 this problem cannot be solved before the release date, binary kits
|
|
|
1654 for HP *must* be linked statically against libc, otherwise this
|
|
|
1655 problem will show up. (This is directed at whoever will volunteer
|
|
|
1656 for this kit, as I won't be available to do it, unless 19.14 gets
|
|
|
1657 delayed until mid-june ;-). I think this problem will be an FAQ soon
|
|
|
1658 after the release otherwise.
|
|
|
1659
|
|
|
1660 Note: The above entry is probably not valid for XEmacs 21.0 and
|
|
|
1661 later.
|
|
|
1662
|
|
|
1663 *** The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
|
|
|
1664 other non-English HP keyboards too).
|
|
|
1665
|
|
|
1666 This is because HP-UX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
|
|
|
1667 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
|
|
|
1668 configures the X server.
|
|
|
1669
|
|
|
1670 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
|
|
|
1671 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
|
|
|
1672 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
|
|
|
1673 EOF
|
|
|
1674
|
|
|
1675 xmodmap - << EOF
|
|
|
1676 clear mod1
|
|
|
1677 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
|
|
|
1678 add mod1 = Meta_L
|
|
|
1679 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
|
|
|
1680 add mod2 = Mode_switch
|
|
|
1681 EOF
|
|
|
1682
|
|
442
|
1683
|
|
|
1684 *** XEmacs dumps core at startup when native audio is used. Native
|
|
|
1685 audio does not work with recent versions of HP-UX.
|
|
|
1686
|
|
|
1687 Under HP-UX 10.20 and later (e.g., HP-UX 11.XX), with native audio
|
|
|
1688 enabled, the dumped XEmacs binary ("xemacs") core dumps at startup if
|
|
|
1689 recent versions of the libAlib.sl audio shared library is used. Note
|
|
|
1690 that "temacs" will run, but "xemacs" will dump core. This, of course,
|
|
|
1691 causes the XEmacs build to fail. If GNU malloc is enabled, a stack
|
|
|
1692 trace will show XEmacs to have crashed in the "first" call to malloc().
|
|
|
1693
|
|
|
1694 This bug currently exists in all versions of XEmacs, when the undump
|
|
|
1695 mechanism is used. It is not known if using the experimental portable
|
|
|
1696 dumper will allow native audio to work.
|
|
|
1697
|
|
|
1698 **** Cause:
|
|
|
1699
|
|
|
1700 Recent versions of the HP-UX 10.20 (and later) audio shared library (in
|
|
|
1701 /opt/audio/lib), pulls in the libdce shared library, which pulls in a
|
|
|
1702 thread (libcma) library. This prevents the HP-UX undump() routine (in
|
|
|
1703 unexhp9k800.c) from properly working. What's happening is that some
|
|
|
1704 initialization routines are being called in the libcma library, *BEFORE*
|
|
|
1705 main() is called, and these initialization routines are calling
|
|
|
1706 malloc(). Unfortunately, in order for the undumper to work, XEmacs must
|
|
|
1707 adjust (move upwards) the sbrk() value *BEFORE* the first call to
|
|
|
1708 malloc(); if malloc() is called before XEmacs has properly adjusted sbrk
|
|
|
1709 (which is what is happening), dumped memory that is being used by
|
|
|
1710 XEmacs, is improperly re-allocated for use by malloc() and the dumped
|
|
|
1711 memory is corrupted. This causes XEmacs to die an horrible death.
|
|
|
1712
|
|
|
1713 It is believed that versions of the audio library past December 1998
|
|
|
1714 will trigger this problem. Under HP-UX 10.20, you probably have to
|
|
|
1715 install audio library patches to encounter this. It's probable that
|
|
|
1716 recent "fresh, out-of-the-box" HP-UX 11.XX workstations also have this
|
|
|
1717 problem. For HP-UX 10.20, it's believed that audio patch PHSS_17121 (or
|
|
|
1718 a superceeding one, like PHSS_17554, PHSS_17971, PHSS_18777, PHSS_21481,
|
|
|
1719 or PHSS_21662, etc.) will trigger this.
|
|
|
1720
|
|
|
1721 To check if your audio library will cause problems for XEmacs, run
|
|
|
1722 "chatr /opt/audio/lib/libAlib.sl". If "libdce" appears in the displayed
|
|
|
1723 shared library list, XEmacs will probably encounter problems if audio is
|
|
|
1724 enabled.
|
|
|
1725
|
|
|
1726 **** Workaround:
|
|
|
1727
|
|
|
1728 Don't enable native audio. Re-run configure without native audio
|
|
|
1729 support.
|
|
|
1730
|
|
|
1731 If your site supports it, try using NAS (Network Audio Support).
|
|
|
1732
|
|
|
1733 Try using the experimental portable dumper. It may work, or it may
|
|
|
1734 not.
|
|
|
1735
|
|
|
1736
|
|
373
|
1737 *** `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
|
|
|
1738
|
|
|
1739 On HP-UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
|
|
|
1740 file system. HP-UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
|
|
|
1741 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
|
|
|
1742 value is just ten seconds.
|
|
|
1743
|
|
|
1744 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
|
|
|
1745
|
|
|
1746 *** Shell mode on HP-UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
|
|
124
|
1747
|
|
|
1748 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
|
|
|
1749
|
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1750 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
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197
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1751 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then tty
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1752 will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, but tty
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1753 is giving it back 3.
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1754
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197
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1755 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a
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1756 single word:
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1757
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1758 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
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1759
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1760 should be changed to:
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1761
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1762 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
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1763
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1764 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
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1765 and into .login.
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1766
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1767
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1768 ** SCO
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1769 *** Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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1770
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373
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1771 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
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1772 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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1773 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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1774 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
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1775 GCC.
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1776
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1777
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373
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1778 ** Windows
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524
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1779 *** In general, the Windows code is less mature than the Unix code.
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1780
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1781 The Windows code base is still changing quickly. If you are
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1782 experiencing problems, try the latest beta version to see if the
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1783 problem still exists. Also ask on xemacs-nt@xemacs.org.
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1784
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1785
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1786 ** Cygwin
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1787 *** Subprocesses do not work.
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1788
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1789 You do not have "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable. This must
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1790 be set in your autoexec.bat (win95) or the system properties (winnt)
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1791 as it must be read before the cygwin DLL initializes.
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1792
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1793 *** ^G does not work on hung subprocesses.
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1794
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524
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1795 This is a known problem. It can be remedied by defining BROKEN_SIGIO
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1796 in src/s/cygwin.h, however this currently leads to instability in XEmacs.
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1797 (#### is this still true?)
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1798
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1799 *** Errors from make like `/c:not found' when running `M-x compile'.
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1800
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524
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1801 Make sure you set the environment variable MAKE_MODE to UNIX in your
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1802 init file (.xemacs/init.el), Control Panel (Windows 2000/NT), or
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1803 AUTOEXEC.BAT (Windows 98/95).
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1804
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1805 *** There are no images in the toolbar buttons.
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1806
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1807 You need version 4.71 of commctrl.dll which does not ship with windows
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1808 95. You can get this by installing IE 4.0 or downloading it from the
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1809 microsoft website.
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1810
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1811
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1812 * Compatibility problems (with Emacs 18, GNU Emacs, or previous XEmacs/lemacs)
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88
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1814
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373
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1815 *** "Symbol's value as variable is void: unread-command-char".
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1816 "Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<keymap 143 entries>"
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1817 "Wrong type argument: stringp, [#<keypress-event return>]"
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1818
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124
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1819 There are a few incompatible changes in XEmacs, and these are the
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1820 symptoms. Some of the emacs-lisp code you are running needs to be
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1821 updated to be compatible with XEmacs.
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1822
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1823 The code should not treat keymaps as arrays (use `define-key', etc.),
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1824 should not use obsolete variables like `unread-command-char' (use
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197
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1825 `unread-command-events'). Many (most) of the new ways of doing things
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124
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1826 are compatible in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
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88
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1827
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1828 Modern Emacs packages (Gnus, VM, W3, efs, etc) are written to support
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1829 GNU Emacs and XEmacs. We have provided modified versions of several
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1830 popular emacs packages (dired, etc) which are compatible with this
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1831 version of emacs. Check to make sure you have not set your load-path
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1832 so that your private copies of these packages are being found before
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1833 the versions in the lisp directory.
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1834
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1835 Make sure that your load-path and your $EMACSLOADPATH environment
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1836 variable are not pointing at an Emacs18 lisp directory. This will
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1837 cripple emacs.
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88
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1838
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124
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1839 ** Some packages that worked before now cause the error
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223
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1840 Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<face ... >
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1841
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197
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1842 Code which uses the `face' accessor functions must be recompiled with
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1843 xemacs 19.9 or later. The functions whose callers must be recompiled
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1844 are: face-font, face-foreground, face-background,
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1845 face-background-pixmap, and face-underline-p. The .elc files
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1846 generated by version 19.9 will work in 19.6 and 19.8, but older .elc
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1847 files which contain calls to these functions will not work in 19.9.
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1848
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1849 ** Signaling: (error "Byte code stack underflow (byte compiler bug), pc 38")
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88
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1850
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120
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1851 This error is given when XEmacs 20 is compiled without MULE support
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88
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1852 but is attempting to load a .elc which requires MULE support. The fix
|
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1853 is to rebytecompile the offending file.
|
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1854
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124
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1855 ** Signaling: (wrong-type-argument ...) when loading mail-abbrevs
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88
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1856
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197
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1857 The is seen when installing the Insidious Big Brother Data Base (bbdb)
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1858 which includes an outdated copy of mail-abbrevs.el. Remove the copy
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1859 that comes with bbdb and use the one that comes with XEmacs.
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1860
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144
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1861
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1862 * MULE issues
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144
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1864
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223
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1865 ** A reminder: XEmacs/Mule work does not currently receive *any*
|
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1866 funding, and all work is done by volunteers. If you think you can
|
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1867 help, please contact the XEmacs maintainers.
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1868
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278
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1869 ** XEmacs/Mule doesn't support TTY's satisfactorily.
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223
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1870
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1871 This is a major problem, which we plan to address in a future release
|
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1872 of XEmacs. Basically, XEmacs should have primitives to be told
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1873 whether the terminal can handle international output, and which
|
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1874 locale. Also, it should be able to do approximations of characters to
|
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1875 the nearest supported by the locale.
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1876
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197
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1877 ** Internationalized (Asian) Isearch doesn't work.
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144
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1878
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1879 Currently, Isearch doesn't directly support any of the input methods
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1880 that are not XIM based (like egg, canna and quail) (and there are
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223
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1881 potential problems with XIM version too...). If you're using egg
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1882 there is a workaround. Hitting <RET> right after C-s to invoke
|
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1883 Isearch will put Isearch in string mode, where a complete string can
|
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1884 be typed into the minibuffer and then processed by Isearch afterwards.
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1885 Since egg is now supported in the minibuffer using string mode you can
|
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1886 now use egg to input your Japanese, Korean or Chinese string, then hit
|
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1887 return to send that to Isearch and then use standard Isearch commands
|
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1888 from there.
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144
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1889
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223
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1890 ** Using egg and mousing around while in 'fence' mode screws up my
|
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1891 buffer.
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144
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1892
|
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|
1893 Don't do this. The fence modes of egg and canna are currently very
|
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1894 modal, and messing with where they expect point to be and what they
|
|
|
1895 think is the current buffer is just asking for trouble. If you're
|
|
|
1896 lucky they will realize that something is awry, and simply delete the
|
|
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1897 fence, but worst case can trash other buffers too. We've tried to
|
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|
1898 protect against this where we can, but there still are many ways to
|
|
|
1899 shoot yourself in the foot. So just finish what you are typing into
|
|
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1900 the fence before reaching for the mouse.
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223
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1901
|
|
|
1902 ** Not all languages in Quail are supported like Devanagari and Indian
|
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|
1903 languages, Lao and Tibetan.
|
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1904
|
|
|
1905 Quail requires more work and testing. Although it has been ported to
|
|
|
1906 XEmacs, it works really well for Japanese and for the European
|
|
|
1907 languages.
|
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1908
|
|
|
1909 ** Right-to-left mode is not yet implemented, so languages like
|
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|
1910 Arabic, Hebrew and Thai don't work.
|
|
|
1911
|
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1912 Getting this right requires more work. It may be implemented in a
|
|
|
1913 future XEmacs version, but don't hold your breath. If you know
|
|
|
1914 someone who is ready to implement this, please let us know.
|
|
|
1915
|
|
|
1916 ** We need more developers and native language testers. It's extremely
|
|
|
1917 difficult (and not particularly productive) to address languages that
|
|
|
1918 nobody is using and testing.
|
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|
1919
|
|
|
1920 ** The kWnn and cWnn support for Chinese and Korean needs developers
|
|
|
1921 and testers. It probably doesn't work.
|
|
|
1922
|
|
|
1923 ** There are no `native XEmacs' TUTORIALs for any Asian languages,
|
|
454
|
1924 including Japanese. FSF Emacs and XEmacs tutorials are quite similar,
|
|
223
|
1925 so it should be sufficient to skim through the differences and apply
|
|
|
1926 them to the Japanese version.
|
|
|
1927
|
|
|
1928 ** We only have localized menus translated for Japanese, and the
|
|
|
1929 Japanese menus are developing bitrot (the Mule menu appears in
|
|
|
1930 English).
|
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|
1931
|
|
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1932 ** XIM is untested for any language other than Japanese.
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