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Re: Error in XEmacs initialization 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

Guido Van Hoecke <Guido.Van_Hoecke(a)alcatel.be> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: >> What does `uname -r' return on cygwin? The script appears to be >> mistaking you for a System V-oid system. >> > /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin $ ./uname -r > 20.1 (0.3/1/1) That will do it. Sigh. Does anyone else remember the legend of the silent echo in Kernighan and Pike?

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Probelm with VM in 21.0.65 25 years, 8 months

Geoffrey Furnish

Hello, I have built 21.0.65 on both Linux and Solaris 2.6. I am using sumo tarball from 3/5/99. On both systems, executing M-x vm, or hitting my mail button on the tool bar which was previously customized to vm, results in an error in the message box. Error says: Invalid function: (marco . #<compiled-function (&rest forms) "...(10)" [let ((vm qt which point it has paraded off the right end of the minibuffer and I can't read any more of it. Is there something I'm doing wrong? This happens with xemacs -q, as well as when I'm being my usual self. BTW, this begs a long standing question I've had. Is there a way to capture all the messages that go to the minibuffer and retain them in a buffer. I once (many years ago) used a multi buffer editor that had a "messages" buffer which you could always flip to in order to review any errors that had gone before. I've always wished I could have this feature in Emacs too. -- Geoffrey Furnish Actel Corporation furnish(a)actel.com Senior Staff Engineer 955 East Arques Ave voice: 408-522-7528 Placement & Routing Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4533 fax: 408-328-2303

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[crash] Free BSD 2.2.8 25 years, 8 months

Robin S. Socha

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.0 "20 minutes to Nikko" [Lucid] (i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.8) of Fri Mar 12 1999 on kens.com configured using `configure --with-sound=no --error-checking=none --debug=no --gung-ho --verbose --with-scrollbars=athena3d --with-dialogs=athena3d' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I fired up Gnus, hit A A (boy, my Admin has a lot of groups here...) and XEmacs went dead: bash-2.02$ gdb /usr/local/bin/xemacs-21.0-b66 xemacs-21.0-b66.core Core was generated by `xemacs-21.0-b66'. Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction. Cannot access memory at address 0x2014a080. #0 0xf0c46 in malloc (size=4096) at gmalloc.c:528 If someone could tell me how to do a proper bug report... OpDelKey: using "entf" aka del to delete sucks. I'm getting RSI in my right pinky. (gdb) list 523 } 524 525 /* Allocate memory from the heap. */ 526 __ptr_t 527 malloc (__malloc_size_t size) 528 { 529 __ptr_t result; 530 __malloc_size_t block, blocks, lastblocks, start; 531 __malloc_size_t i; 532 struct list *next;

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VM bug in 21.0.66 and sumo-03-12 25 years, 8 months

Raymond Toy

One of the users here has run into a problem with the VM in the latest sumo (03-12) tarball and 21.0.66. >From "xemacs -vanilla" and an empty .vm file, M-x vm produces an error. The traceback is appended. However, the sumo tarball from 03-01 doesn't produce this error. Ray

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[Success] 21.2 "Demeter" XEmacs Lucid (beta13) on i586-pc-linux 25 years, 8 months

John Mignault

Patched from b12. Built and works fine so far. j > XEmacs Build Report as generated > by build-report-version 1.35 follows: > Contents of /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2.12/Installation: > (Output from most recent run of ./configure) uname -a: Linux jbm 2.0.34 #1 Fri May 8 16:05:57 EDT 1998 i586 unknown ./configure '--dynamic' '--with-database=gnudbm' '--with-xpm' '--gung-ho' '--with-mule=no' '--with-png=yes' '--with-session' XEmacs 21.2-b13 "Demeter" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2.12 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Using Lisp_Objects with minimal tagbits. Using indexed lrecord implementation. Compiling in extra code for debugging. Compiling in code for checking XEmacs memory usage. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- > /usr/local/src/xemacs-21.2.12/beta.err does not exist!

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Re: Error in XEmacs initialization 25 years, 8 months

Guido Van Hoecke

SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: > What does `uname -r' return on cygwin? The script appears to be > mistaking you for a System V-oid system. > oops, the question was 'uname -r'iso 'uname -a': /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin $ ./uname -r 20.1 (0.3/1/1) /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin $ Guido

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Re: Error in XEmacs initialization 25 years, 8 months

Guido Van Hoecke

SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: > > What does `uname -r' return on cygwin? The script appears to be > mistaking you for a System V-oid system. /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin $ ./uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 btm4bz 20.1 (0.3/1/1) 1998-12-3 20:39:18 i586 unknown /cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin $ HTH, Guido.

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Re: [Various] Backspace direction reversion 25 years, 8 months

Hrvoje Niksic

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes: > >>>>> "SL" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: > > SL> [Whatever the outcome, it *must* go through due process and we're > SL> doing that now. Thanks to everyone who has commented.] > > No. There are times when you have to stand up for a principle. > Having the Backspace key delete forwards by default is simply not > acceptable. To me. It has to go. I agree with Martin here, although I don't share the strength of his conviction.

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Re: Backspace direction reversion 25 years, 8 months

Didier Verna

Jan Vroonhof writes: Jan> Indeed not :-(. How can you guys survive on a keyboard without cursor Jan> keys anyway. Even my notebook has one. I wish my keyboard didn't have cursor keys, ever. This way I probably wouldn't have this hysterical behavior of machine gun'ing the Tab key on all lines, and then using intensively whitespace.el :-) -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19

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Re: Error in XEmacs initialization 25 years, 8 months

Adrian Aichner

>>>>> "SL" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: SL> Guido Van Hoecke <Guido.Van_Hoecke(a)alcatel.be> writes in SL> xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: >> Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes: SL> ... >>> I don't see this. Always make sure you build new betas with 'make beta' >>> rather than just plain 'make'. What happens if you do this? SL> Urgh. `make beta' isn't supposed to be needed now with the slimmed SL> down core. The fact that it makes a difference is a bug in XEmacs. >> Yep, that brings me a lot further. Unfortunately, way down the >> process, the build stops while it expects to find /bin/echo: >> ... >> /usr/local/src/XEMACS~1.65/lib-src/update-elc.sh: /bin/echo: not found SL> This comes from a very dubious block of code: SL> # fuckin' sysv, man... SL> if [ "`uname -r | sed 's/[^0-9]*$[0-9]*$.*/\1/'`" -gt 4 ]; then SL> echon() SL> { SL> /bin/echo $* '\c' SL> } SL> else SL> echon() SL> { SL> echo -n $* SL> } SL> fi SL> What does `uname -r' return on cygwin? The script appears to be cd d:\ e:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin\uname.exe Compilation started at Fri Mar 12 17:36:39 1999 CYGWIN_NT-4.0 Compilation finished at Fri Mar 12 17:36:39 SL> mistaking you for a System V-oid system. SL> Is there any system we currently support that requires that code? -- Adrian Aichner Teradyne GmbH, European Design Center Integra Test Division Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 (What is a Fax?) D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com

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