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7 This file is rather large, but we have tried to sort the entries by
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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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12 - Problems with running XEmacs
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13 - Compatibility problems
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16 Use `C-c C-f' to move to the next equal level of outline, and
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18 info about the Outline mode.
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20 Also, Try finding the things you need using one of the search commands
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21 XEmacs provides (e.g. `C-s').
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22
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23 A general advice:
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24 WATCH OUT for .emacs file! ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file. If
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25 you observe strange problems, invoke XEmacs with the `-q' option
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26 and see if you can repeat the problem.
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32 ** Don't use -O2 with gcc 2.7.2 under Intel/XXX without also using
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33 `-fno-strength-reduce'.
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35 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise. This bug is present in at
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36 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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37 later. This bug is O/S independent, but is limited to x86 architectures.
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39 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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41 ** Don't use -O2 with gcc 2.7.2 under Intel architectures without also
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42 using `-fno-caller-saves'.
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44 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise. This bug is still
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45 present in gcc 2.7.2.3. There have been no reports to indicate the
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46 bug is present in egcs 1.0 (or pgcc 1.0) or later. This bug is O/S
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47 independent, but limited to x86 architectures.
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49 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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50
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51 ** Excessive optimization with pgcc can break XEmacs
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53 It has been reported on some systems that compiling with -O6 can lead
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54 to XEmacs failures. The workaround is to use a lower optimization
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55 level. -O2 and -O4 have been tested extensively.
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57 All of this depends heavily on the version of pgcc and the version
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58 of libc. Snapshots near the release of pgcc-1.0 have been tested
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59 extensively and no sign of breakage has been seen on systems using
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60 glibc-2.
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61
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62 ** `compress' and `uncompress' not found and XFree86
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64 XFree86 installs a very old version of libz.a by default ahead of where
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65 more modern version of libz might be installed. This will cause problems
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66 when attempting to link against libMagick. The fix is to remove the old
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67 libz.a in the X11 binary directory.
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69 ** Excessive optimization on AIX 4.2 can lead to compiler failure.
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71 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
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72 At least at the b34 level, and the latest-and-greatest IBM xlc
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73 (3.1.4.4), there are problems with -O3. I haven't investigated
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74 further.
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75
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76 ** Sed problems on Solaris 2.5
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78 There have been reports of Sun sed truncating very lines in the
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79 Makefile during configuration. The workaround is to use GNU sed or,
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80 even better, think of a better way to generate Makefile, and send us a
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81 patch. :-)
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84 or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
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85 or, temacs runs and dumps xemacs, but xemacs totally fails to work.
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86 or, temacs gets errors dumping xemacs
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88 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
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89 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are binary
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90 files and can contain all 256 byte values.
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92 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. It
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93 typically truncates "lines". (this does not apply to GNU shar, which
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94 uses uuencode to encode binary files.)
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96 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its nonprinting
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97 characters, you can fix them by running:
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99 make all-elc
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101 This will rebuild all the needed .elc files.
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103 ** `Error: No ExtNode to pop!' on Linux systems with Lesstif.
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105 This error message has been observed with lesstif-0.75a. It does not
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106 appear to cause any harm.
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110 Darrell Kindred <dkindred@cmu.edu> writes:
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111 There are a couple of problems [with use of -rpath with Irix ld], though:
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113 1. The ld in IRIX 5.3 ignores all but the last -rpath
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114 spec, so the patched configure spits out a warning
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115 if --x-libraries or --site-runtime-libraries are
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116 specified under irix 5.x, and it only adds -rpath
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117 entries for the --site-runtime-libraries. This bug was
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118 fixed sometime between 5.3 and 6.2.
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120 2. IRIX gcc 2.7.2 doesn't accept -rpath directly, so
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121 it would have to be prefixed by -Xlinker or "-Wl,".
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122 This would be fine, except that configure compiles with
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123 ${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ...
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124 rather than quoting $LDFLAGS with prefix-args, like
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125 src/Makefile does. So if you specify --x-libraries
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126 or --site-runtime-libraries, you must use --use-gcc=no,
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127 or configure will fail.
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131 This occurs if you use the SGI linker version 7.1. Installing the
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132 patch SG0001872 fixes this problem.
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136 This is a Linux problem where you've compiled the XEmacs binary on a libc
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137 5.4 with version higher than 5.4.19 and attempted to run the binary against
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138 an earlier version. The solution is to upgrade your old library.
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139
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140 ** Compilation errors on VMS.
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142 Sorry, XEmacs does not work under VMS. You might consider working on
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143 the port if you really want to have XEmacs work under VMS.
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147 You probably have /usr/ucblib/ on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Do the link with
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148 LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset. Generally, avoid using any ucb* stuff when
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153 The SparcWorks C compiler may have difficulty building those modules
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154 with optimization level -xO4. Try using only "-fast" optimization
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155 for just those modules. (Or use gcc).
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157 ** On Digital UNIX, the DEC C compiler might have a problem compiling
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160 In particular, src/extents.c and src/faces.c might cause the DEC C
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161 compiler to abort. When this happens: cd src, compile the files by
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162 hand, cd .., and redo the "make" command. When recompiling the files by
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163 hand, use the old C compiler for the following versions of Digital UNIX:
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164 - V3.n: Remove "-migrate" from the compile command.
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165 - V4.n: Add "-oldc" to the compile command.
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168 new versions of the compiler should run fine.
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173 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
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175 Had to drop once again to level 2 optimization, at least to
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176 compile lstream.c. Otherwise, I get a "variable is void: \if"
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177 problem while dumping (this is a problem I already reported
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178 with vanilla hpux 10.01 and 9.07, which went away after
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179 applying patches for the C compiler). Trouble is I still
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180 haven't found the same patch for hpux 10.10, and I don't
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181 remember the patch numbers. I think potential XEmacs builders
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182 on HP should be warned about this.
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183
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184 ** I don't have `xmkmf' and `imake' on my HP.
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186 You can get these standard X tools by anonymous FTP to hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com.
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187 Essentially all X programs need these.
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191 Marcus Thiessel <marcus_thiessel@hp.com>
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193 Some releases of XEmacs require GNU make to build successfully.
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195 ** On HP-UX 9.05 XEmacs won't compile or coredump during the build.
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197 Marcus Thiessel <marcus_thiessel@hp.com>
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199 This might be a sed problem. For your own safety make sure to use
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200 GNU sed while dumping XEmacs.
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201
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204 This only occurs if you have LANG != C. This is a known bug with
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205 /bin/sh fixed by installing Patch-ID# 101613-01. Or, you can use
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206 bash, as a workaround.
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208 ** On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi
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210 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
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211 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
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212 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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214 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
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218 Pete Forman <gsez020@compo.bedford.waii.com> writes:
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219 A problem noted by myself and others (I've lost the references) was
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220 that XEmacs coredumped when the cut or copy toolbar buttons were
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221 pressed. This has been fixed by loading the SGI patchset (Feb 98)
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222 without having to recompile XEmacs.
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224 My versions are XEmacs 20.3 (problem first noted in 19.15) and IRIX
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225 6.2, compiled using -n32. I'd guess that the relevant individual
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226 patch was "SG0002580: multiple fixes for X libraries". SGI recommends
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227 that the complete patch set be installed rather than parts of it.
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230 a curve. Here is what Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com> says:
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232 Unlike XEmacs 19.13, building with the native cc on SCO OpenServer 5
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233 now produces a functional binary. I will typically build this
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234 configuration for COFF with:
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238 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas
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240 This version now supports ELF builds. I highly recommend this to
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241 reduce the in-core footprint of XEmacs. This is now how I compile
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242 all my test releases. Build it like this:
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244 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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245 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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246 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic
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248 The compiler known as icc [ supplied with the OpenServer 5 Development
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249 System ] generates a working binary, but it takes forever to generate
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250 XEmacs. ICC also whines more about the code than /bin/cc does. I do
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251 believe all its whining is legitimate, however. Note that you do
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252 have to 'cd src ; make LD=icc' to avoid linker errors.
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254 The way I handle the build procedure is:
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256 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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257 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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258 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic --compiler="icc"
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259
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260 NOTE I have the xpm, xface, and audio libraries and includes in
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261 /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include. If you don't have these,
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262 don't include the "--with-*" arguments in any of my examples.
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263
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264 In previous versions of XEmacs, you had to override the defaults while
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265 compiling font-lock.o and extents.o when building with icc. This seems
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266 to no longer be true, but I'm including this old information in case it
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267 resurfaces. The process I used was:
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269 make -k
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270 [ procure pizza, beer, repeat ]
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271 cd src
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272 make CC="icc -W0,-mP1COPT_max_tree_size=3000" font-lock.o extents.o
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273 make LD=icc
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274
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275 If you want sound support, get the tls566 supplement from
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276 ftp.sco.com:/TLS or any of its mirrors. It works just groovy
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277 with XEmacs.
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279 The M-x manual-entry is known not to work. If you know Lisp and would
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280 like help in making it work, e-mail me at <robertl@dgii.com>.
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281 (UNCHECKED for 19.15 -- it might work).
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283 In earlier releases, gnuserv/gnuclient/gnudoit would open a frame
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284 just fine, but the client would lock up and the server would
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285 terminate when you used C-x # to close the frame. This is now
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286 fixed in XEmacs.
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287
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288 In etc/ there are two files of note. emacskeys.sco and emacsstrs.sco.
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289 The comments at the top of emacskeys.sco describe its function, and
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290 the emacstrs.sco is a suitable candidate for /usr/lib/keyboard/strings
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291 to take advantage of the keyboard map in emacskeys.sco.
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299 Using 'cc -g' is not sufficient to eliminate all optimization. Try
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300 'cc -g -O0' instead.
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301
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302 ** On SunOS, you get linker errors
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303 ld: Undefined symbol
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304 _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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305 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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306
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307 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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308 or link libXmu statically.
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309
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310 ** On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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311
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312 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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313 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
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314 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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315
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316 ** On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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317 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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318 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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319
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320 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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321 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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322 you build Emacs:
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324 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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325 chmod 664 libIM.a
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326 ranlib libIM.a
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327
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328 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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329 Makefile).
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330
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331 ** On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
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332
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333 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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334 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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335 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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336 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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337 syms.h.
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338
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339 ** Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
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341 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
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343 /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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344
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345 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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346
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347 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
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348 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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349
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350 ** Link failure on IBM AIX 1.3 ptf 0013.
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351
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352 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in
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353 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The
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354 workaround/fix is:
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356 cd /lib
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357 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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358 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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359
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360 ** Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1.
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362 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
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363 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
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364 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
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365
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366 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
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367 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
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368
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369 ** src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
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370
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371 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
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372 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.
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373
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374 ** On AIX, you get this compiler error message:
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376 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
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377 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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379 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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380 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
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381 X11Dev... with smit.
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382
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383 ** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
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385 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
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387 shell.
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389 ** On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
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391 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
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393 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
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394
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395 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
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396
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397 ** SunOS 4.1.2: undefined symbol _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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398
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399 Apparently the version of libXmu.so.a that Sun ships is hosed: it's missing
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400 some stuff that is in libXmu.a (the static version). Sun has a patch for
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401 this, but a workaround is to use the static version of libXmu, by changing
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402 the link command from "-lXmu" to "-Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic". If you have
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403 OpenWindows 3.0, ask Sun for these patches:
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404 100512-02 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 libXt Jumbo patch
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405 100573-03 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 undefined symbols with shared libXmu
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406
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407 ** Random other SunOS 4.1.[12] link errors.
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408
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409 The X headers and libraries that Sun ships in /usr/{include,lib}/X11 are
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410 broken. Use the ones in /usr/openwin/{include,lib} instead.
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411
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412 ** When using gcc, you get the error message "undefined symbol __fixunsdfsi".
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413 When using gcc, you get the error message "undefined symbol __main".
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415 This means that you need to link with the gcc library. It may be called
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416 "gcc-gnulib" or "libgcc.a"; figure out where it is, and define LIB_GCC in
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417 config.h to point to it.
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418
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419 It may also work to use the GCC version of `ld' instead of the standard one.
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420
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421 ** When compiling with X11, you get "undefined symbol _XtStrings".
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422
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423 This means that you are trying to link emacs against the X11r4 version of
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424 libXt.a, but you have compiled either Emacs or the code in the lwlib
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425 subdirectory with the X11r5 header files. That doesn't work.
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426
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427 Remember, you can't compile lwlib for r4 and emacs for r5, or vice versa.
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428 They must be in sync.
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429
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431
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432 Some users have reported problems in this area. The reported solution
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433 is to define the environment variable OPENWINHOME, even if you must set
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434 it to `/usr/openwin'.
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435
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437
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438 You have probably installed LessTiff under `/usr/local' and `libXm.so'
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439 could not be found when linking `getpgrp()' test program, making XEmacs
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440 think that `getpgrp()' takes an argument. Try adding `/usr/local/lib'
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441 in `/etc/ld.so.conf' and run `ldconfig'. Then run XEmacs's `configure'
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442 again. As with all problems of this type, reading the config.log file
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443 generated from configure and seeing the log of how the test failed can
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444 prove enlightening.
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447 * Problems with running XEmacs
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284
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449 ** On Solaris 2.6, XEmacs dumps core when exiting.
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450
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451 This happens if you're XEmacs is running on the same machine as the X
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452 server, and the optimized memory transport has been turned on by
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453 setting the environment variable XSUNTRANSPORT. The crash occurs
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454 during the call to XCloseDisplay.
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455
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456 If this describes your situation, you need to undefine the
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457 XSUNTRANSPORT environment variable.
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458
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459 ** `C-z', or `M-x suspend-emacs' hangs instead of suspending.
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460
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461 If you build with `gpm' support on Linux, you cannot suspend XEmacs
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462 because gpm installs a buggy SIGTSTP handler. Either compile with
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463 `--with-gpm=no', or don't suspend XEmacs on the Linux console until
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464 this bug is fixed.
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465
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467
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468 Emacs has traditionally used Control-H for help; unfortunately this
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469 interferes with its use as Backspace on TTY's. One way to solve this
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470 problem is to put this in your .emacs:
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471
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472 (when (eq tty-erase-char ?\C-h)
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473 (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?)
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474 (global-set-key "\M-?" 'help-command))
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476 This checks whether the TTY erase char is C-h, and if it is, makes
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477 Control-H (Backspace) work sensibly, and moves help to Meta-? (ESC ?).
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478
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479 Note that you can probably also access help using F1.
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480
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482
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483 rmail and VM get new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
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484 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using the
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485 protocol defined by /bin/mail.
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486
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487 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
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488 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
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489 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
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490 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, the
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491 macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. IF
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492 YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR SYSTEM,
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493 YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
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494
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495 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
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496 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
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497 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
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498 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing
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499 the make install.
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500
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501 chgrp mail movemail
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502 chmod 2755 movemail
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503
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504 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
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505 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
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506 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
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507 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
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508 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
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509 directory copy is ineffective.
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510
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512 with large compilation buffers.
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514 The default stack size under Digital Unix is rather small (2M as
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515 opposed to Solaris 8M), hosing the regexp code, which uses alloca()
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516 extensively, overflowing the stack when complex regexps are used.
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517 Workarounds:
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518
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519 1) Increase your stack size, using `ulimit -s 8192' or a (t)csh
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520 equivalent;
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521
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522 2) Recompile regex.c with REGEX_MALLOC defined.
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523
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524 ** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
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525
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526 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
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527 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
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528
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530
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531 This is normal (trust us) when upgrading to VM-6.22 from earlier
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532 versions. Let VM finish what it is doing and all will be well.
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533
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534 ** Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
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535
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537 old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes will not be seen. To
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538 fix this, do `M-x byte-recompile-directory' and specify the directory
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539 that contains the Lisp files.
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541 Note that you will get a warning when loading a .elc file that is
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542 older than the corresponding .el file.
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543
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544 ** Things which should be bold or italic (such as the initial
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545 copyright notice) are not.
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546
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547 The fonts of the "bold" and "italic" faces are generated from the font
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548 of the "default" face; in this way, your bold and italic fonts will
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549 have the appropriate size and family. However, emacs can only be
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550 clever in this way if you have specified the default font using the
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551 XLFD (X Logical Font Description) format, which looks like
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552
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553 *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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554
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556 which look like:
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557
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558 lucidasanstypewriter-12
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559 and fixed
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560 and 9x13
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561
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562 then emacs won't be able to guess the names of the "bold" and "italic"
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563 versions. All X fonts can be referred to via XLFD-style names, so you
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564 should use those forms. See the man pages for X(1), xlsfonts(1), and
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565 xfontsel(1).
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566
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568
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569 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
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570
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571 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
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572 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
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573 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
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574 value in the man page for a.out (5).
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575
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576 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
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577 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
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578 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
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579 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
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580 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
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581
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583
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584 Try evaluating the form (setq lock-directory nil) and see if that helps.
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585 There is a problem with file-locking on some systems (possibly related
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586 to NFS) that I don't understand. Please send mail to the address
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587 xemacs@xemacs.org if you figure this one out.
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588
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589 ** The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
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590
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591 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
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592 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
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593 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
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594 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
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595 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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596
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597 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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598
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599 ** The `Alt' key doesn't behave as `Meta' when running DECwindows.
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600
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601 The default DEC keyboard mapping has the Alt keys set up to generate the
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602 keysym `Multi_key', which has a meaning to xemacs which is distinct from that
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603 of the `Meta_L' and `Meta-R' keysyms. A second problem is that certain keys
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604 have the Mod2 modifier attached to them for no adequately explored reason.
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605 The correct fix is to pass this file to xmodmap upon starting X:
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606
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607 clear mod2
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608 keysym Multi_key = Alt_L
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609 add mod1 = Alt_L
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610 add mod1 = Alt_R
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611
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612 ** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
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613
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614 This shell command should fix it:
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615
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616 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
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617
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618 ** When emacs starts up, I get lots of warnings about unknown keysyms.
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619
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620 If you are running the prebuilt binaries, the Motif library expects to find
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621 certain thing in the XKeysymDB file. This file is normally in /usr/lib/X11/
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622 or in /usr/openwin/lib/. If you keep yours in a different place, set the
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623 environment variable $XKEYSYMDB to point to it before starting emacs. If
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624 you still have the problem after doing that, perhaps your version of X is
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625 too old. There is a copy of the MIT X11R5 XKeysymDB file in the emacs `etc'
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626 directory. Try using that one.
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627
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628 ** My X resources used to work, and now some of them are being ignored.
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629
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630 Check the resources in .../etc/Emacs.ad (which is the same as the file
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631 sample.Xdefaults). Perhaps some of the default resources built in to
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632 emacs are now overriding your existing resources. Copy and edit the
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633 resources in Emacs.ad as necessary.
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634
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635 ** I get complaints about the mapping of my HP keyboard at startup,
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636 but I haven't changed anything.
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637
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638 The default HP keymap is set up to have Mod1 assigned to two different keys:
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639 Meta_L and Mode_switch (even though there is not actually a Mode_switch key on
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640 the keyboard -- it uses an "imaginary" keycode.) There actually is a reason
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641 for this, but it's not a good one. The correct fix is to execute this command
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642 upon starting X:
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643
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644 xmodmap -e 'remove mod1 = Mode_switch'
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645
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646 ** I have focus problems when I use `M-o' to switch to another screen
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647 without using the mouse.
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648
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649 The focus issues with a program like XEmacs, which has multiple
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650 homogeneous top-level windows, are very complicated, and as a result,
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651 most window managers don't implement them correctly.
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652
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653 The R4/R5 version of twm (and all of its descendants) had buggy focus
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654 handling. Sufficiently recent versions of tvtwm have been fixed. In
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655 addition, if you're using twm, make sure you have not specified
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656 "NoTitleFocus" in your .tvtwmrc file. The very nature of this option
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657 makes twm do some illegal focus tricks, even with the patch.
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658
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659 It is known that olwm and olvwm are buggy, and in different ways. If
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660 you're using click-to-type mode, try using point-to-type, or vice
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661 versa.
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662
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663 In older versions of NCDwm, one could not even type at XEmacs windows.
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664 This has been fixed in newer versions (2.4.3, and possibly earlier).
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665
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666 (Many people suggest that XEmacs should warp the mouse when focusing
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667 on another screen in point-to-type mode. This is not ICCCM-compliant
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668 behavior. Implementing such policy is the responsibility of the
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669 window manager itself, it is not legal for a client to do this.)
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670
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671 ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
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672
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673 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
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674 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
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675 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
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676 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
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677 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
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678 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
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679 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
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680 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
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681
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682 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
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683
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684 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
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685 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
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686 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
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687
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688 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
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689 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
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690 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
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691 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
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692 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
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693 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
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694
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695 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
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696 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
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697 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
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698 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
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699 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
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700 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
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701 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
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702 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
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703 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
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704
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705 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
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706 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
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707 codes. You might as well try it.
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708
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709 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
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710 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
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711 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
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712 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
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713 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
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714 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
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715 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
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716 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
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717
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718 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
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719 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
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720 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
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721 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
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722 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
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723 control handling.)
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724
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725 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
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726 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
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727 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
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728 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
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729 other control characters are already used by emacs.
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730
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731 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
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732 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
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733 order to continue.
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734
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735 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
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736 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
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737 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
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738 automatically. Here is an example:
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739
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740 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
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741
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742 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
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743 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
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744 manually.
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745
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746 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
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747 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
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748 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
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749 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
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750 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
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751 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
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752 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
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753 of inferior systems.
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754
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755 ** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
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756
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757 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
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758 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
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759 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
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760 that wants to use flow control.
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761
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762 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
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763 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
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764 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
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765
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766 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
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767 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
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768 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
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769
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770 ** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net
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197
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771 connection.
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0
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772
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773 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
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774 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
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775 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
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776 control on the local system.
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777
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778 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
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779 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
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780 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
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120
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781 `stty start u stop u' will do this.
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0
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782
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783 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
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784 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
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785 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
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786
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787 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
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120
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788 `M-x enable-flow-control' at the beginning of your emacs session, or
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0
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789 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
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790 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
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791
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792 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
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793
|
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794 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
|
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795 info.
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796
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197
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797 ** TTY redisplay is slow.
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798
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799 XEmacs has fairly new TTY redisplay support (beginning from 19.12),
|
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800 which doesn't include some basic TTY optimizations -- like using
|
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801 scrolling regions to move around blocks of text. This is why
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802 redisplay on the traditional terminals, or over slow lines can be very
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803 slow.
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804
|
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805 If you are interested in fixing this, please let us know at
|
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|
806 <xemacs@xemacs.org>.
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807
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124
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808 ** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
|
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0
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809
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120
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810 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that terminal
|
|
|
811 is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing the
|
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|
812 combination of features specified for that terminal.
|
|
0
|
813
|
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814 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
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|
815 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
|
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120
|
816 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all terminal
|
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|
817 output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do what makes the
|
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818 screen update wrong, and look at the file and decode the characters
|
|
|
819 using the manual for the terminal. There are several possibilities:
|
|
0
|
820
|
|
|
821 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
|
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|
822
|
|
|
823 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
|
|
|
824 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
|
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|
825
|
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120
|
826 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect of the
|
|
|
827 terminal behavior not described in an obvious way by termcap.
|
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0
|
828
|
|
120
|
829 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for Emacs
|
|
|
830 to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior and other
|
|
|
831 terminals that behave subtly differently but are classified the same
|
|
|
832 by termcap; or else find an algorithm for Emacs to use that avoids the
|
|
|
833 difference. Such changes must be tested on many kinds of terminals.
|
|
0
|
834
|
|
|
835 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
|
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836
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120
|
837 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes that are known to be
|
|
|
838 needed in commonly used termcap entries for certain terminals.
|
|
0
|
839
|
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120
|
840 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be right for
|
|
|
841 any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
|
|
0
|
842
|
|
120
|
843 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed in
|
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197
|
844 termcap.c, terminfo.c, tparam.c, cm.c, redisplay-tty.c,
|
|
|
845 redisplay-output.c, or redisplay.c.
|
|
0
|
846
|
|
124
|
847 ** Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
|
|
0
|
848
|
|
|
849 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
|
|
|
850
|
|
|
851 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
|
|
|
852 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
|
|
|
853
|
|
|
854 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
|
|
|
855
|
|
124
|
856 ** With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
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197
|
857 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
|
|
124
|
858
|
|
|
859 One user on a Linux system reported that this problem went away with
|
|
|
860 installation of a new X server. The failing server was XFree86 3.1.1.
|
|
|
861 XFree86 3.1.2 works.
|
|
|
862
|
|
|
863 ** On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
|
|
0
|
864
|
|
124
|
865 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
|
|
|
866 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
|
|
|
867 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
|
|
|
868 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
|
|
|
869
|
|
|
870 ** On Irix, I don't see the toolbar icons and I'm getting lots of
|
|
197
|
871 entries in the warnings buffer.
|
|
0
|
872
|
|
124
|
873 SGI ships a really old Xpm library in /usr/lib which does not work at
|
|
|
874 all well with XEmacs. The solution is to install your own copy of the
|
|
|
875 latest version of Xpm somewhere and then use the --site-includes and
|
|
|
876 --site-libraries flags to tell configure where to find it.
|
|
|
877
|
|
197
|
878 ** On HPUX, you get "poll: Interrupted system call" message in the
|
|
|
879 window where XEmacs was launched.
|
|
124
|
880
|
|
|
881 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
|
|
0
|
882
|
|
197
|
883 I get a very strange problem when linking libc.a dynamically: every
|
|
|
884 event (mouse, keyboard, expose...) results in a "poll: Interrupted
|
|
|
885 system call" message in the window where XEmacs was
|
|
|
886 launched. Forcing a static link of libc.a alone by adding
|
|
|
887 /usr/lib/libc.a at the end of the link line solves this. Note that
|
|
|
888 my 9.07 build of 19.14b17 and my (old) build of 19.13 both exhibit
|
|
|
889 the same behaviour. I've tried various hpux patches to no avail. If
|
|
|
890 this problem cannot be solved before the release date, binary kits
|
|
|
891 for HP *must* be linked statically against libc, otherwise this
|
|
|
892 problem will show up. (This is directed at whoever will volunteer
|
|
|
893 for this kit, as I won't be available to do it, unless 19.14 gets
|
|
|
894 delayed until mid-june ;-). I think this problem will be an FAQ soon
|
|
|
895 after the release otherwise.
|
|
|
896
|
|
276
|
897 Note: The above entry is probably not valid for XEmacs 21.0 and
|
|
207
|
898 later.
|
|
0
|
899
|
|
124
|
900 ** When Emacs tries to ring the bell, you get an error like
|
|
|
901
|
|
|
902 audio: sst_open: SETQSIZE" Invalid argument
|
|
|
903 audio: sst_close: SETREG MMR2, Invalid argument
|
|
|
904
|
|
197
|
905 you have probably compiled using an ANSI C compiler, but with non-ANSI
|
|
|
906 include files. In particular, on Suns, the file
|
|
|
907 /usr/include/sun/audioio.h uses the _IOW macro to define the constant
|
|
|
908 AUDIOSETQSIZE. _IOW in turn uses a K&R preprocessor feature that is
|
|
|
909 now explicitly forbidden in ANSI preprocessors, namely substitution
|
|
|
910 inside character constants. All ANSI C compilers must provide a
|
|
|
911 workaround for this problem. Lucid's C compiler is shipped with a new
|
|
|
912 set of system include files. If you are using GCC, there is a script
|
|
|
913 called fixincludes that creates new versions of some system include
|
|
|
914 files that use this obsolete feature.
|
|
124
|
915
|
|
|
916 ** My buffers are full of \000 characters or otherwise corrupt.
|
|
0
|
917
|
|
124
|
918 Some compilers have trouble with gmalloc.c and ralloc.c; try recompiling
|
|
|
919 without optimization. If that doesn't work, try recompiling with
|
|
|
920 SYSTEM_MALLOC defined, and/or with REL_ALLOC undefined.
|
|
|
921
|
|
|
922 ** On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
|
|
197
|
923 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
|
|
124
|
924
|
|
|
925 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
|
|
|
926 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
|
|
|
927 Definitions" to make them defined.
|
|
|
928
|
|
|
929 ** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for
|
|
197
|
930 Windows.
|
|
0
|
931
|
|
124
|
932 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
|
|
|
933 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
|
|
|
934 problem.
|
|
|
935
|
|
|
936 ** A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
|
|
|
937
|
|
|
938 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
|
|
|
939 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
|
|
0
|
940
|
|
124
|
941 UsePPosition "on" #allow clents to request a position
|
|
|
942
|
|
|
943 ** The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
|
|
|
944 other non-English HP keyboards too).
|
|
|
945
|
|
|
946 This is because HPUX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
|
|
|
947 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
|
|
|
948 configures the X server.
|
|
0
|
949
|
|
124
|
950 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
|
|
|
951 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
|
|
|
952 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
|
|
|
953 EOF
|
|
|
954
|
|
|
955 xmodmap - << EOF
|
|
|
956 clear mod1
|
|
|
957 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
|
|
|
958 add mod1 = Meta_L
|
|
|
959 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
|
|
|
960 add mod2 = Mode_switch
|
|
|
961 EOF
|
|
|
962
|
|
|
963 ** Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
|
|
|
964
|
|
|
965 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
|
|
|
966 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
|
|
|
967 to allocate ptys reliably.
|
|
|
968
|
|
197
|
969 ** Motif dialog boxes lose on Irix.
|
|
126
|
970
|
|
|
971 Larry Auton <lda@control.att.com> writes:
|
|
|
972 Beware of not specifying
|
|
|
973
|
|
|
974 --with-dialogs=athena
|
|
|
975
|
|
|
976 if it builds with the motif dialogs [boom!] you're a dead man.
|
|
|
977
|
|
|
978 ** Beware of the default image & graphics library on Irix
|
|
|
979
|
|
|
980 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
|
|
|
981 You *have* to compile your own jpeg lib. The one delivered with SGI
|
|
|
982 systems is a C++ lib, which apparently XEmacs cannot cope with.
|
|
|
983
|
|
124
|
984 ** Slow startup on Linux.
|
|
|
985
|
|
|
986 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
|
|
|
987 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
|
|
|
988
|
|
|
989 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
|
|
|
990 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
|
|
|
991 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
|
|
|
992 networked and non-networked machines.
|
|
0
|
993
|
|
124
|
994 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
|
|
|
995
|
|
|
996 *** Networked Case
|
|
|
997
|
|
|
998 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
|
|
|
999 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
|
|
|
1000 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
|
|
|
1001
|
|
|
1002 127.0.0.1 localhost HOSTNAME
|
|
|
1003
|
|
|
1004 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
|
|
|
1005 lines:
|
|
|
1006
|
|
|
1007 order hosts, bind
|
|
|
1008 multi on
|
|
|
1009
|
|
|
1010 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
|
|
|
1011 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
|
|
|
1012 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
|
|
|
1013 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
|
|
|
1014
|
|
|
1015 *** Non-Networked Case
|
|
|
1016
|
|
|
1017 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
|
|
|
1018 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
|
|
|
1019 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
|
|
|
1020 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
|
|
|
1021 file is not necessary with this approach.
|
|
|
1022
|
|
|
1023 ** On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
|
|
197
|
1024 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
|
|
124
|
1025
|
|
|
1026 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
|
|
|
1027 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
|
|
|
1028
|
|
|
1029 #if ThreadedX
|
|
|
1030 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
|
|
|
1031 #endif
|
|
|
1032
|
|
|
1033 to:
|
|
|
1034
|
|
|
1035 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
|
|
|
1036 #if ThreadedX
|
|
|
1037 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
|
|
|
1038 #endif
|
|
|
1039 #endif
|
|
|
1040
|
|
|
1041 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
|
|
|
1042 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
|
|
|
1043 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
|
|
|
1044 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
|
|
|
1045 definition for your type of machine and system.
|
|
|
1046
|
|
|
1047 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
|
|
|
1048 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
|
|
|
1049 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
|
|
|
1050
|
|
|
1051 For multithreaded X to work it necessary to install patch
|
|
|
1052 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
|
|
|
1053 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
|
|
|
1054 patch.
|
|
0
|
1055
|
|
124
|
1056 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
|
|
|
1057 he changed
|
|
|
1058 #define ThreadedX YES
|
|
|
1059 to
|
|
|
1060 #define ThreadedX NO
|
|
|
1061 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
|
|
|
1062 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
|
|
|
1063 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
|
|
|
1064
|
|
|
1065 ** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice to do
|
|
197
|
1066 incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
|
|
0
|
1067
|
|
124
|
1068 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
|
|
|
1069 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
|
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1070 another escape character in kermit. One user did
|
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1071
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1072 set escape-character 17
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1073
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1074 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
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0
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1075
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124
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1076 ** The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
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1077
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1078 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
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1079
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1080 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
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1081
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1082 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
|
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1083 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
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1084 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
|
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1085 the resource prevents the problem.
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0
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1086
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124
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1087 ** Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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1088
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1089 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
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1090 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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1091 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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1092 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
|
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1093 GCC.
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1094
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1095 ** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
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1096
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1097 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
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1098 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
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1099 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
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1100 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
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1101
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1102 if ($?EMACS) then
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1103 if ($EMACS == "t") then
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1104 unset edit
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1105 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
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1106 endif
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1107 endif
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1108
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1109 ** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
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1110 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
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1111
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1112 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
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1113 emacs*Cursor: black
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1114 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
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1115 that isn't a color.)
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1116
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1117 The fix is to correct your X resources.
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1118
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1119 ** Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
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0
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1120
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124
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1121 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
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1122 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
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1123 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
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1124 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
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1125 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
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1126 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
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1127 obtain the destination address.
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1128
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1129 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
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1130 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
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1131 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
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1132 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
|
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1133 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
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1134 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
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1135 of this writing, these official versions are available:
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1136
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1137 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
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1138 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
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1139 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
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1140 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
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1141 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
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1142
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1143 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
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1144 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
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1145
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1146 ** On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
|
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0
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1147
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124
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1148 Could not load program emacs
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1149 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
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1150 Error was: Exec format error
|
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1151
|
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1152 or this one:
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1153
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1154 Could not load program .emacs
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1155 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
|
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1156 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
|
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1157 Error was: Exec format error
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1158
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1159 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
|
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1160 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
|
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1161
|
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1162 ** After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
|
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1163
|
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|
1164 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
|
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1165 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
|
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1166 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
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1167
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1168 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
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1169 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
|
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|
1170 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
|
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1171 configure script) that reads:
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1172 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
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1173 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
|
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1174 the kernel bug.
|
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1175
|
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1176 ** Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
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197
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1177 directly with an X server.
|
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0
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1178
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124
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1179 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
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1180 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
|
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1181 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
|
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|
1182 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
|
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|
1183 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
|
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1184 have made the key binding correctly.
|
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|
1185
|
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1186 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
|
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|
1187 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
|
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|
1188 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
|
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|
1189 default.
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1190
|
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1191 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
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0
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1192
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124
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1193 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
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1194 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
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1195
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1196 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
|
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|
1197 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
|
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1198 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
|
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1199 modifier bit not otherwise used.
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0
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1200
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124
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1201 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
|
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1202 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
|
|
|
1203 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
|
|
|
1204 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
|
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|
1205
|
|
|
1206 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
|
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|
1207 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
|
|
|
1208
|
|
|
1209 ** `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
|
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0
|
1210
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124
|
1211 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
|
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1212 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
|
|
|
1213 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
|
|
|
1214 value is just ten seconds.
|
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1215
|
|
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1216 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
|
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1217
|
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197
|
1218 ** `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped
|
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|
1219 Emacs on.
|
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124
|
1220
|
|
|
1221 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
|
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|
1222 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
|
|
|
1223 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
|
|
|
1224 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
|
|
|
1225
|
|
|
1226 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
|
|
|
1227 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
|
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0
|
1228
|
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124
|
1229 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
|
|
|
1230 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
|
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|
1231 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
|
|
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1232 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
|
|
|
1233
|
|
|
1234 ** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
|
|
|
1235 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
|
|
197
|
1236 Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
|
|
|
1237 Gnus can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
|
|
0
|
1238
|
|
124
|
1239 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
|
|
|
1240 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
|
|
|
1241 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
|
|
|
1242 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
|
|
0
|
1243
|
|
124
|
1244 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
|
|
|
1245 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
|
|
|
1246
|
|
|
1247 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
|
|
|
1248 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
|
|
0
|
1249
|
|
124
|
1250 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
|
|
|
1251
|
|
|
1252 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
|
|
|
1253 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
|
|
|
1254 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
|
|
|
1255 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
|
|
|
1256 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
|
|
|
1257 be careful not to lose the others.
|
|
|
1258
|
|
|
1259 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
|
|
|
1260
|
|
|
1261 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
|
|
|
1262
|
|
|
1263 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
|
|
|
1264 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
|
|
|
1265 again to say this:
|
|
|
1266
|
|
|
1267 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
|
|
|
1268
|
|
|
1269 ** Trouble using ptys on AIX.
|
|
0
|
1270
|
|
124
|
1271 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
|
|
|
1272 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
|
|
|
1273
|
|
|
1274 ** Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
|
|
|
1275
|
|
|
1276 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
|
|
|
1277
|
|
|
1278 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
|
|
197
|
1279 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then tty
|
|
|
1280 will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, but tty
|
|
|
1281 is giving it back 3.
|
|
124
|
1282
|
|
197
|
1283 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a
|
|
|
1284 single word:
|
|
0
|
1285
|
|
124
|
1286 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
|
|
|
1287
|
|
|
1288 should be changed to:
|
|
|
1289
|
|
|
1290 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
|
|
|
1291
|
|
|
1292 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
|
|
|
1293 and into .login.
|
|
0
|
1294
|
|
197
|
1295 ** With process-connection-type set to t, each line of subprocess
|
|
|
1296 output is terminated with a ^M, making ange-ftp and GNUS not work.
|
|
0
|
1297
|
|
197
|
1298 On SunOS systems, this problem has been seen to be a result of an
|
|
|
1299 incomplete installation of gcc 2.2 which allowed some non-ANSI
|
|
|
1300 compatible include files into the compilation. In particular this
|
|
|
1301 affected virtually all ioctl() calls.
|
|
124
|
1302
|
|
|
1303 ** Once you pull down a menu from the menubar, it won't go away.
|
|
0
|
1304
|
|
197
|
1305 It has been claimed that this is caused by a bug in certain very old
|
|
|
1306 (1990?) versions of the twm window manager. It doesn't happen with
|
|
|
1307 recent vintages, or with other window managers.
|
|
124
|
1308
|
|
|
1309 ** Emacs ignores the "help" key when running OLWM.
|
|
88
|
1310
|
|
197
|
1311 OLWM grabs the help key, and retransmits it to the appropriate client
|
|
|
1312 using XSendEvent. Allowing emacs to react to synthetic events is a
|
|
|
1313 security hole, so this is turned off by default. You can enable it by
|
|
|
1314 setting the variable x-allow-sendevents to t. You can also cause fix
|
|
|
1315 this by telling OLWM to not grab the help key, with the null binding
|
|
|
1316 "OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.Help:".
|
|
124
|
1317
|
|
|
1318 ** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
|
|
197
|
1319 terminal type.
|
|
88
|
1320
|
|
124
|
1321 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
|
|
|
1322 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
|
|
|
1323 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
|
|
|
1324 emulates.
|
|
88
|
1325
|
|
124
|
1326 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
|
|
|
1327 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
|
|
|
1328 it only if it is undefined.
|
|
|
1329
|
|
|
1330 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
|
|
|
1331
|
|
|
1332 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
|
|
|
1333 happen in a non-login shell.
|
|
|
1334
|
|
197
|
1335
|
|
124
|
1336 * Compatibility problems (with Emacs 18, GNU Emacs, or previous XEmacs/lemacs)
|
|
197
|
1337 ==============================================================================
|
|
88
|
1338
|
|
124
|
1339 ** "Symbol's value as variable is void: unread-command-char".
|
|
197
|
1340 "Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<keymap 143 entries>"
|
|
|
1341 "Wrong type argument: stringp, [#<keypress-event return>]"
|
|
88
|
1342
|
|
124
|
1343 There are a few incompatible changes in XEmacs, and these are the
|
|
|
1344 symptoms. Some of the emacs-lisp code you are running needs to be
|
|
|
1345 updated to be compatible with XEmacs.
|
|
|
1346
|
|
|
1347 The code should not treat keymaps as arrays (use `define-key', etc.),
|
|
|
1348 should not use obsolete variables like `unread-command-char' (use
|
|
197
|
1349 `unread-command-events'). Many (most) of the new ways of doing things
|
|
124
|
1350 are compatible in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
|
|
88
|
1351
|
|
197
|
1352 Modern Emacs packages (Gnus, VM, W3, efs, etc) are written to support
|
|
|
1353 GNU Emacs and XEmacs. We have provided modified versions of several
|
|
|
1354 popular emacs packages (dired, etc) which are compatible with this
|
|
|
1355 version of emacs. Check to make sure you have not set your load-path
|
|
|
1356 so that your private copies of these packages are being found before
|
|
|
1357 the versions in the lisp directory.
|
|
124
|
1358
|
|
|
1359 Make sure that your load-path and your $EMACSLOADPATH environment
|
|
|
1360 variable are not pointing at an Emacs18 lisp directory. This will
|
|
|
1361 cripple emacs.
|
|
88
|
1362
|
|
124
|
1363 ** Some packages that worked before now cause the error
|
|
223
|
1364 Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<face ... >
|
|
124
|
1365
|
|
197
|
1366 Code which uses the `face' accessor functions must be recompiled with
|
|
|
1367 xemacs 19.9 or later. The functions whose callers must be recompiled
|
|
|
1368 are: face-font, face-foreground, face-background,
|
|
|
1369 face-background-pixmap, and face-underline-p. The .elc files
|
|
|
1370 generated by version 19.9 will work in 19.6 and 19.8, but older .elc
|
|
|
1371 files which contain calls to these functions will not work in 19.9.
|
|
124
|
1372
|
|
|
1373 ** Signaling: (error "Byte code stack underflow (byte compiler bug), pc 38")
|
|
88
|
1374
|
|
120
|
1375 This error is given when XEmacs 20 is compiled without MULE support
|
|
88
|
1376 but is attempting to load a .elc which requires MULE support. The fix
|
|
|
1377 is to rebytecompile the offending file.
|
|
|
1378
|
|
124
|
1379 ** Signaling: (wrong-type-argument ...) when loading mail-abbrevs
|
|
88
|
1380
|
|
197
|
1381 The is seen when installing the Insidious Big Brother Data Base (bbdb)
|
|
|
1382 which includes an outdated copy of mail-abbrevs.el. Remove the copy
|
|
|
1383 that comes with bbdb and use the one that comes with XEmacs.
|
|
|
1384
|
|
144
|
1385
|
|
|
1386 * MULE issues
|
|
197
|
1387 =============
|
|
144
|
1388
|
|
223
|
1389 ** A reminder: XEmacs/Mule work does not currently receive *any*
|
|
|
1390 funding, and all work is done by volunteers. If you think you can
|
|
|
1391 help, please contact the XEmacs maintainers.
|
|
|
1392
|
|
278
|
1393 ** XEmacs/Mule doesn't support TTY's satisfactorily.
|
|
223
|
1394
|
|
|
1395 This is a major problem, which we plan to address in a future release
|
|
|
1396 of XEmacs. Basically, XEmacs should have primitives to be told
|
|
|
1397 whether the terminal can handle international output, and which
|
|
|
1398 locale. Also, it should be able to do approximations of characters to
|
|
|
1399 the nearest supported by the locale.
|
|
|
1400
|
|
197
|
1401 ** Internationalized (Asian) Isearch doesn't work.
|
|
144
|
1402
|
|
|
1403 Currently, Isearch doesn't directly support any of the input methods
|
|
|
1404 that are not XIM based (like egg, canna and quail) (and there are
|
|
223
|
1405 potential problems with XIM version too...). If you're using egg
|
|
|
1406 there is a workaround. Hitting <RET> right after C-s to invoke
|
|
|
1407 Isearch will put Isearch in string mode, where a complete string can
|
|
|
1408 be typed into the minibuffer and then processed by Isearch afterwards.
|
|
|
1409 Since egg is now supported in the minibuffer using string mode you can
|
|
|
1410 now use egg to input your Japanese, Korean or Chinese string, then hit
|
|
|
1411 return to send that to Isearch and then use standard Isearch commands
|
|
|
1412 from there.
|
|
144
|
1413
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1415 buffer.
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144
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1416
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1417 Don't do this. The fence modes of egg and canna are currently very
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1418 modal, and messing with where they expect point to be and what they
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1419 think is the current buffer is just asking for trouble. If you're
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1420 lucky they will realize that something is awry, and simply delete the
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1421 fence, but worst case can trash other buffers too. We've tried to
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1422 protect against this where we can, but there still are many ways to
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1423 shoot yourself in the foot. So just finish what you are typing into
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1424 the fence before reaching for the mouse.
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1425
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1426 ** Not all languages in Quail are supported like Devanagari and Indian
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1427 languages, Lao and Tibetan.
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1428
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1429 Quail requires more work and testing. Although it has been ported to
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1430 XEmacs, it works really well for Japanese and for the European
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1431 languages.
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1432
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1433 ** Right-to-left mode is not yet implemented, so languages like
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1434 Arabic, Hebrew and Thai don't work.
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1435
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1436 Getting this right requires more work. It may be implemented in a
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1437 future XEmacs version, but don't hold your breath. If you know
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1438 someone who is ready to implement this, please let us know.
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1439
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1440 ** We need more developers and native language testers. It's extremely
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1441 difficult (and not particularly productive) to address languages that
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1442 nobody is using and testing.
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1443
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1444 ** The kWnn and cWnn support for Chinese and Korean needs developers
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1445 and testers. It probably doesn't work.
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1446
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1447 ** There are no `native XEmacs' TUTORIALs for any Asian languages,
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1448 including Japanese. FSF Emacs and XEmacs tutorials are quite similar,
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1449 so it should be sufficient to skim through the differences and apply
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1450 them to the Japanese version.
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1451
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1452 ** We only have localized menus translated for Japanese, and the
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1453 Japanese menus are developing bitrot (the Mule menu appears in
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1454 English).
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1455
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1456 ** XIM is untested for any language other than Japanese.
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