Re: can not use the menu list of xemacs

Please reply to posts on the list, so that people with the same problem, or interested in improving XEmacs as a program or in the documentation, can see what's being discussed. For example, although I will try to help you, I can only repeat what was written on this list in the past because I don't use Windows myself! jianxia cui writes: I suspect you may not have any packages installed. XEmacs by itself is a very flexible version of Notepad, but not much more. What makes it easy to use and so powerful are the extension packages. To find out about the packages, please visit http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html. Since you are using Cygwin, you probably want to use the Cygwin setup program to get them, instead of downloading by hand. Unless you are extremely short on space, get them all. Some packages require others to work properly (or at all), but this knowledge is not properly embedded yet---you just have to try and hope nothing breaks. Getting all of them avoids this problem. Then when you have a few minutes to experiment, you can delete one or two that you don't think you need---if you're wrong, it's easy to fix. Another possibility is that XEmacs 21.4.20 was released about a week ago, and you might want to upgrade to the new Cygwin version at the same time. There is also a "native" Windows version (the "Innosetup" installer version), but since you use X you may not want that. It is possible that lack of some extension packages could cause this. If adding packages fixes the problem, please tell us, because that would be a bug. Basic functions like menus should work even without any packages at all. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta