March 1999 - XEmacs-Beta - XEmacs Mailing List Archives

Erlend M. Simonsen

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] (i686-pc-linux, Mule) of Thu Mar 25 1999 on myggen configured using `configure --with-mule' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I hadn't touched my XEmacs screen for a while, when suddenly it bombed on me. I was viewing a message in pgnus-0.79 when this happened: Fatal error: assertion failed, file insdel.c, line 364, VALID_CHARPTR_P (ptr) Fatal error (6) Lisp backtrace follows: extent-at(70 Fatal error: assertion failed, file insdel.c, line 364, VALID_CHARPTR_P (ptr) I was unable to locate the core file. Sorry. Recent keystrokes: M-x g n u s RET n n misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): flyspell on: #<buffer "*mail to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org*"> Loading mail-extr...done Loading mail-extr... Loading emacsbug...done Loading emacsbug... Checking new news...done Loading gnus-sum...done Loading gnus-sum... Opening nndraft server... Opening nntp server on news.fairplay.no... -- Erlend M. Simonsen / Fairplay International AS erlesimo(a)online.no / erlends(a)fairplay.no

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Window configurations are broken 25 years, 8 months

Jan Vroonhof

[Note. All of these also occur in real XEmacs usages. Maybe problems like these also cause the crashes Colin sees using electric-buffer-list, because that uses the window configuration stuff] Because in the window configurations, window sizes are stored in pixels, but frame-sizes in lines we get breakage when there is a redisplay in the save-window-excursion with a new fontheight. xemacs -vanilla -eval '(progn (set-face-font (quote default) "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*") (save-window-excursion (redisplay-device)))' xemacs -vanilla -eval '(progn (set-face-font (quote default) "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-60-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*") (save-window-excursion (redisplay-device)))' [You can actually scroll the cursor off screen with this last one!]. There is code that tries to deal with this (and other frame size changes) in Fset_window_configuration but it fails in the font size change case (because in XEmacs 21.0 font size changes preserve the lines*colums size, not the pixel size). One identified it is easy to come up with other such problems xemacs -vanilla -eval '(save-window-excursion (set-specifier default-toolbar nil) (redisplay-frame))' One could probably continue to do this ad infinitum, (and I have actually seen this happen before). Solution? Maybe we should not blindly copy the window sizes in pixels... Instead we should try to preserve relative sizes. i.e. new-window-width = total-available-width * (old-window-width / old-total-avaliable-with) and the same for height. Of course the real code should do this without floats, deal with over/underflows and should allocate the rounding error pixels to one of the windows. One could also argue that save-window-configuration should also save the relevant specifiers for the tool-bar and the scrollbar etc. Jan

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UW imap c-client 25 years, 8 months

Mark Moll

Hi, I have used both nnimap 0.95 and Pine 4.10. Although nnimap is quite usable, the speed difference between nnimap and Pine is *huge*. I was wondering if anybody has looked at using Pine's imap back-end, c-client. I'm not a real xemacs wizard, but I can imagine that this c-client library can be plugged into xemacs 21.2 as a module. Would this be a good idea? -- Mark Moll e-mail: mmoll(a)cs.cmu.edu | Carnegie Mellon University phone: (412) 268 7123 | Dept. of Computer Science URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmoll | 5000 Forbes Avenue PGP: finger e-mail address | Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Re: XEmacs 21.0.67 "20 minutes to 日光" is released 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > Maybe I missed something really obvious. No. > So, when is this baby going to be renamed to "21.0" and announced to > the public? It's released. It'll be freshmeat'ed when I get back to the US in a couple of days[1]. An announcement to Usenet will be made about the same time. > Do we do binary kits? Not yet. The plan is to continue the code/feature freeze with the 21.1 series, except that each 21.1.x won't be considered, announced or advertised as betas. There will be a 21.1.1 next weekend or shortly thereafter. There will be a 21.1.2 about a week or so later, and so forth. We need a new model of dealing with binary kits to take into account frequent releases. I'll go into more detail on this later in the week. We will also be drafting a wish list for future features. Footnotes: [1] I've forgotten the freshmeat password -- it's on my development machine.

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Re: 'quoted-insert broken?' 25 years, 8 months

Matthew Persico

Ok. Here it is. I started xemacs like this: xemacs foo.c where foo.c does not exist. I set the debug on error option on and then entered this text in the foo.c buffer: main() { int i; I then placed the cursor AFTER the semi-colon on line 2 and attempted to put a tab in, as if to space a trailing comment, and got this text in the *Backtrace* buffer: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument integerp ?\t) int-char(?\t) read-quoted-char() quoted-insert(1) call-interactively(quoted-insert) Do you need more? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: 'quoted-insert' broken? Date: 26 Mar 1999 23:42:29 +0100 From: Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com> To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org References: <A69969F402E9B0228525674000774A6B.007770C280256740(a)notes.teradyne.com> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Persico <Matthew.Persico(a)lazard.com> writes: Matthew> Running xemacs 21.2.13 on sloaris 2.6, no mule. Tried to Matthew> type keystrokes 'C-q tab' in cperl and c modes to get a Matthew> tab at the end of the line before a comment. I got this Matthew> error: Matthew> wrong type argument: integerp, ?\t Matthew> What other info/steps are required to help diagnose? Try Options -> General Options -> Debug On Error run the offending operation and send the contents of *Backtrace* to this list. Regards, Adrian Matthew> Matthew O. Persico Matthew> http://www.lazard.com Matthew> Opinions expressed are MINE, not Lazard's. -- 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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Re: Comparison between integer and character is constant nil (?2 and 0) 25 years, 8 months

Didier Verna

Stephen J Turnbull writes: Stephen> I hope you're not talking about disabling Ebola notices by default in Stephen> betas. I see ebola notices occasionally, and often enough they're Stephen> bugs. Hmmm, I was about to ask whether we really need Ebola any more... The only place where I've been getting Ebola notices for ages is in gnus, and I know the _warnings_ are bogus, not the _code_. -- / / _ _ 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: Bug in pcl-cvs mode 25 years, 8 months

Jari Aalto

* 1999-03-22 Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com> list.xemacs * Message-Id: <ud821dxkt.fsf(a)ecf.teradyne.com> | I just packaged up a few little lisp utilities I maintain for a small | group of people at work. | | And it works great! | | It's just so much more convenient to have an internal package download | directory and send the guys a short e-mail saying: please upgrade to | the latest packages. It sounds like the packaging has matured enough for me to take a look at it. Is there a page that describes step by step what it needs to be done to make a lisp module packaged? jari

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Re: XEmacs 21.0.67 "20 minutes to 日光" is released 25 years, 8 months

Michael Sperber

Maybe I missed something really obvious. So, when is this baby going to be renamed to "21.0" and announced to the public? Do we do binary kits? -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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Re: image-mode and format-alist 25 years, 8 months

Didier Verna

Kyle Jones writes: Kyle> The image-mode mode stuff ought to be removed from format-alist. Kyle> image-mode's type detection stuff should be able to work as a find-file Kyle> hook. At that level, it won't interfere with insert-file-contents. Amen. -- / / _ _ 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: Comparison between integer and character is constant nil (?2 and 0) 25 years, 8 months

SL Baur

Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: >>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: sb> Compile without debugging enabled. It might be harmless sb> enough to disable all Ebola notices in 21.2. > I hope you're not talking about disabling Ebola notices by default in > betas. I was. > I see ebola notices occasionally, and often enough they're bugs. I personally don't see any benefit to removing Ebola notices because they only appear when running a debug-enabled XEmacs. It's a bug that Ebola notices are not documented in the FAQ.

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