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| author | Glenn Morris | 2010-05-26 23:13:23 -0700 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris | 2010-05-26 23:13:23 -0700 |
| commit | b7bd84780e8a409dd1df344a5c6a78339b183d26 (patch) | |
| tree | ead0e8dce35dcc7d3a136dddddb6322a5d09a4a0 | |
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* etc/PROBLEMS: Remove some more old information.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 56 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 54 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 87d95a19d5e..4d48b66f47a 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS | |||
| @@ -91,14 +91,7 @@ The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc | |||
| 91 | file. | 91 | file. |
| 92 | 92 | ||
| 93 | Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files | 93 | Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files |
| 94 | lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will | 94 | lurking somewhere on your load-path -- see the next section. |
| 95 | print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path: | ||
| 96 | |||
| 97 | emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows | ||
| 98 | |||
| 99 | If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, | ||
| 100 | and should be deleted or their directories removed from your | ||
| 101 | load-path. | ||
| 102 | 95 | ||
| 103 | ** Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version. | 96 | ** Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version. |
| 104 | 97 | ||
| @@ -489,13 +482,7 @@ causes it. | |||
| 489 | else | 482 | else |
| 490 | { | 483 | { |
| 491 | 484 | ||
| 492 | ** PSGML | 485 | ** PSGML conflicts with sgml-mode. |
| 493 | |||
| 494 | *** Old versions of the PSGML package use the obsolete variables | ||
| 495 | `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no | ||
| 496 | longer used by Emacs. Please use PSGML 1.2.3 or later. | ||
| 497 | |||
| 498 | *** PSGML conflicts with sgml-mode. | ||
| 499 | 486 | ||
| 500 | PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like keymap) | 487 | PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like keymap) |
| 501 | as built-in sgml-mode.el because it was created as a replacement | 488 | as built-in sgml-mode.el because it was created as a replacement |
| @@ -505,23 +492,6 @@ HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML file. html-mode | |||
| 505 | (from sgml-mode.el) is used for HTML file and loading of psgml.el | 492 | (from sgml-mode.el) is used for HTML file and loading of psgml.el |
| 506 | (for sgml-mode or xml-mode) will cause an error. | 493 | (for sgml-mode or xml-mode) will cause an error. |
| 507 | 494 | ||
| 508 | *** Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2 | ||
| 509 | (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later. | ||
| 510 | Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably, | ||
| 511 | earlier versions. | ||
| 512 | |||
| 513 | --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1 | ||
| 514 | +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00 | ||
| 515 | @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti | ||
| 516 | (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil)) | ||
| 517 | (cond | ||
| 518 | ((stringp entity) ; a file name | ||
| 519 | - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity)) | ||
| 520 | + (insert-file-contents entity) | ||
| 521 | (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity))) | ||
| 522 | ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id? | ||
| 523 | (let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity)) | ||
| 524 | |||
| 525 | ** PCL-CVS | 495 | ** PCL-CVS |
| 526 | 496 | ||
| 527 | *** Lines are not updated or new lines are added in the buffer upon commit. | 497 | *** Lines are not updated or new lines are added in the buffer upon commit. |
| @@ -629,13 +599,6 @@ To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable | |||
| 629 | invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or | 599 | invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or |
| 630 | (c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase. | 600 | (c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase. |
| 631 | 601 | ||
| 632 | *** The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2. | ||
| 633 | |||
| 634 | It can fail to work with ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 1. | ||
| 635 | Version 1 of OpenLDAP is now deprecated. If you are still using it, | ||
| 636 | please upgrade to version 2. As a temporary workaround, remove | ||
| 637 | argument "-x" from the variable `ldap-ldapsearch-args'. | ||
| 638 | |||
| 639 | *** ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps. | 602 | *** ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps. |
| 640 | 603 | ||
| 641 | This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it | 604 | This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it |
| @@ -1365,15 +1328,6 @@ One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in | |||
| 1365 | your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in | 1328 | your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in |
| 1366 | the environment. | 1329 | the environment. |
| 1367 | 1330 | ||
| 1368 | *** Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server. | ||
| 1369 | |||
| 1370 | The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd | ||
| 1371 | arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to | ||
| 1372 | tell Emacs to compensate for this. | ||
| 1373 | |||
| 1374 | I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself | ||
| 1375 | whether this problem is present on a given system. | ||
| 1376 | |||
| 1377 | *** X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname. | 1331 | *** X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname. |
| 1378 | 1332 | ||
| 1379 | People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs | 1333 | People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs |
| @@ -1385,12 +1339,6 @@ You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil). | |||
| 1385 | However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that | 1339 | However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that |
| 1386 | you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g. | 1340 | you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g. |
| 1387 | 1341 | ||
| 1388 | The easy way to do this is to put | ||
| 1389 | |||
| 1390 | (setq x-sigio-bug t) | ||
| 1391 | |||
| 1392 | in your site-init.el file. | ||
| 1393 | |||
| 1394 | *** Prevent double pastes in X | 1342 | *** Prevent double pastes in X |
| 1395 | 1343 | ||
| 1396 | The problem: a region, such as a command, is pasted twice when you copy | 1344 | The problem: a region, such as a command, is pasted twice when you copy |