Re: border display glitch
>>>> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw
<barry(a)python.org> writes:
BAW> I only see the bug on my Redhat 7.3 box.
SJT> Yup.
Ah, cool, you see it too then?!
SJT> You'd think that Somebody(a)python.org could figure that out in
SJT> under 1.52 seconds.<wink>
Oh dang, you're right, it's the Python bridge between XEmacs and
XFree86. At line 732 in border.py where it says
while 1:
distance += 1
if text.obscures(distance):
lisp.eval('(draw-annoying-line t)')
break
Change the `annoying' to `beautiful'.
SJT> In the near future I'll be making up an issues list (finals
SJT> are over, only the grading is left), but IIRC the kludges
SJT> needed to work around the upstream (RH 7.3 only, not XFree,
SJT> maybe) breakage are too complicated for 21.4, so ....
SJT> There's always NetBSD.
Ouch. Or... MacOSX? :)
So what did RH /do/ to break this? Is the problem in the XEmacs code,
the X libraries, some place else? Any ideas, or hints of places to
look?
-Barry