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| author | Glenn Morris | 2014-03-22 15:56:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris | 2014-03-22 15:56:29 -0700 |
| commit | 3e702d1649d4f4f67ed355a26ff707733c39e6d8 (patch) | |
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* etc/PROBLEMS: Small copyedits.
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 332f28dd932..ae836cf73ec 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS | |||
| @@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be are: | |||
| 29 | - in your ~/.Xdefaults file | 29 | - in your ~/.Xdefaults file |
| 30 | 30 | ||
| 31 | - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or | 31 | - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or |
| 32 | /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or | 32 | /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs |
| 33 | /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs | ||
| 34 | 33 | ||
| 35 | One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a | 34 | One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a |
| 36 | fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find | 35 | fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find |
| @@ -108,6 +107,7 @@ load-path. | |||
| 108 | * Crash bugs | 107 | * Crash bugs |
| 109 | 108 | ||
| 110 | ** Emacs crashes when running in a terminal, if compiled with GCC 4.5.0 | 109 | ** Emacs crashes when running in a terminal, if compiled with GCC 4.5.0 |
| 110 | |||
| 111 | This version of GCC is buggy: see | 111 | This version of GCC is buggy: see |
| 112 | 112 | ||
| 113 | http://debbugs.gnu.org/6031 | 113 | http://debbugs.gnu.org/6031 |
| @@ -154,10 +154,12 @@ If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to | |||
| 154 | untar it :-). | 154 | untar it :-). |
| 155 | 155 | ||
| 156 | ** Emacs can crash when displaying PNG images with transparency. | 156 | ** Emacs can crash when displaying PNG images with transparency. |
| 157 | |||
| 157 | This is due to a bug introduced in ImageMagick 6.8.2-3. The bug should | 158 | This is due to a bug introduced in ImageMagick 6.8.2-3. The bug should |
| 158 | be fixed in ImageMagick 6.8.3-10. See <URL:http://debbugs.gnu.org/13867>. | 159 | be fixed in ImageMagick 6.8.3-10. See <URL:http://debbugs.gnu.org/13867>. |
| 159 | 160 | ||
| 160 | ** Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version | 161 | ** Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version |
| 162 | |||
| 161 | libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1. | 163 | libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1. |
| 162 | Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur | 164 | Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur |
| 163 | if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an | 165 | if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an |
| @@ -207,6 +209,7 @@ If you need Emacs to be able to recover from closing displays, compile | |||
| 207 | it with the Lucid toolkit instead of GTK. | 209 | it with the Lucid toolkit instead of GTK. |
| 208 | 210 | ||
| 209 | ** Emacs crashes when you try to view a file with complex characters. | 211 | ** Emacs crashes when you try to view a file with complex characters. |
| 212 | |||
| 210 | For example, the etc/HELLO file (as shown by C-h h). | 213 | For example, the etc/HELLO file (as shown by C-h h). |
| 211 | The message "symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/emacs: undefined symbol: OTF_open" | 214 | The message "symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/emacs: undefined symbol: OTF_open" |
| 212 | is shown in the terminal from which you launched Emacs. | 215 | is shown in the terminal from which you launched Emacs. |
| @@ -600,22 +603,20 @@ and Latin-1 version of this character to display a space. | |||
| 600 | *** Some of the fonts called for in your fontset may not exist on your | 603 | *** Some of the fonts called for in your fontset may not exist on your |
| 601 | X server. | 604 | X server. |
| 602 | 605 | ||
| 603 | Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs | 606 | Each X font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs |
| 604 | supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires | 607 | supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires |
| 605 | many different fonts, collected into a fontset. You can remedy the | 608 | many different fonts, collected into a fontset. You can remedy the |
| 606 | problem by installing additional fonts. | 609 | problem by installing additional fonts. |
| 607 | 610 | ||
| 608 | The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can | 611 | The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can |
| 609 | display all the characters Emacs supports. The etl-unicode collection | 612 | display all the characters Emacs supports. The etl-unicode collection |
| 610 | of fonts (available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and | 613 | of fonts (available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/>) includes |
| 611 | <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/mirror/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>) includes | ||
| 612 | fonts that can display many Unicode characters; they can also be used | 614 | fonts that can display many Unicode characters; they can also be used |
| 613 | by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode characters. | 615 | by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode characters. |
| 614 | 616 | ||
| 615 | ** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. | 617 | ** Under X, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. |
| 616 | 618 | ||
| 617 | You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution | 619 | You may have bad fonts. |
| 618 | or the etl-unicode collection (see above). | ||
| 619 | 620 | ||
| 620 | ** Under X, an unexpected monospace font is used as the default font. | 621 | ** Under X, an unexpected monospace font is used as the default font. |
| 621 | 622 | ||
| @@ -799,7 +800,7 @@ generally read correctly by Emacs 21. | |||
| 799 | *** You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key. | 800 | *** You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key. |
| 800 | 801 | ||
| 801 | This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym | 802 | This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym |
| 802 | Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11 | 803 | Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X |
| 803 | character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key | 804 | character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key |
| 804 | to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap. | 805 | to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap. |
| 805 | 806 | ||
| @@ -900,7 +901,7 @@ into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs. | |||
| 900 | 901 | ||
| 901 | This happens sometimes when using Metacity. Resizing Emacs or ALT-Tab:bing | 902 | This happens sometimes when using Metacity. Resizing Emacs or ALT-Tab:bing |
| 902 | makes the system unresponsive to the mouse or the keyboard. Killing Emacs | 903 | makes the system unresponsive to the mouse or the keyboard. Killing Emacs |
| 903 | or shifting out from X11 and back again usually cures it (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 | 904 | or shifting out from X and back again usually cures it (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 |
| 904 | and then Alt-F7). A bug for it is here: | 905 | and then Alt-F7). A bug for it is here: |
| 905 | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/231034. | 906 | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/231034. |
| 906 | Note that a permanent fix seems to be to disable "assistive technologies". | 907 | Note that a permanent fix seems to be to disable "assistive technologies". |
| @@ -1030,7 +1031,7 @@ the resource prevents the problem. | |||
| 1030 | 1031 | ||
| 1031 | ** General X problems | 1032 | ** General X problems |
| 1032 | 1033 | ||
| 1033 | *** Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions. | 1034 | *** Redisplay using X is much slower than previous Emacs versions. |
| 1034 | 1035 | ||
| 1035 | We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when | 1036 | We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when |
| 1036 | scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this | 1037 | scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this |
| @@ -1249,6 +1250,7 @@ You can get back menus on each frame by starting emacs like this: | |||
| 1249 | * Runtime problems on character terminals | 1250 | * Runtime problems on character terminals |
| 1250 | 1251 | ||
| 1251 | ** The meta key does not work on xterm. | 1252 | ** The meta key does not work on xterm. |
| 1253 | |||
| 1252 | Typing M-x rings the terminal bell, and inserts a string like ";120~". | 1254 | Typing M-x rings the terminal bell, and inserts a string like ";120~". |
| 1253 | For recent xterm versions (>= 216), Emacs uses xterm's modifyOtherKeys | 1255 | For recent xterm versions (>= 216), Emacs uses xterm's modifyOtherKeys |
| 1254 | feature to generate strings for key combinations that are not | 1256 | feature to generate strings for key combinations that are not |
| @@ -2145,7 +2147,7 @@ likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific. | |||
| 2145 | 2147 | ||
| 2146 | Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not | 2148 | Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not |
| 2147 | print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical | 2149 | print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical |
| 2148 | printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic | 2150 | printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows's basic |
| 2149 | built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it | 2151 | built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it |
| 2150 | has): | 2152 | has): |
| 2151 | 2153 | ||
| @@ -2215,7 +2217,7 @@ running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then | |||
| 2215 | un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X | 2217 | un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X |
| 2216 | selection". | 2218 | selection". |
| 2217 | 2219 | ||
| 2218 | Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then | 2220 | If this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then |
| 2219 | please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. | 2221 | please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. |
| 2220 | If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it here. | 2222 | If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it here. |
| 2221 | 2223 | ||
| @@ -2282,8 +2284,7 @@ The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. | |||
| 2282 | First ensure that the necessary 32-bit system libraries and include | 2284 | First ensure that the necessary 32-bit system libraries and include |
| 2283 | files are installed. Then use: | 2285 | files are installed. Then use: |
| 2284 | 2286 | ||
| 2285 | env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu \ | 2287 | env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu --x-libraries=/usr/lib |
| 2286 | --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib | ||
| 2287 | 2288 | ||
| 2288 | (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). | 2289 | (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). |
| 2289 | 2290 | ||
| @@ -2522,8 +2523,8 @@ to regenerate all the .elc files. | |||
| 2522 | 2523 | ||
| 2523 | *** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted". | 2524 | *** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted". |
| 2524 | 2525 | ||
| 2525 | This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el files | 2526 | This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el files during |
| 2526 | during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more space than was allocated. | 2527 | `temacs --batch --load loadup dump' took up more space than was allocated. |
| 2527 | 2528 | ||
| 2528 | This could be caused by | 2529 | This could be caused by |
| 2529 | 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files | 2530 | 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files |