22 September 2005
Dear Mike,
I downloaded the additional files from
ftp.suse.com and put them into an
appropriate directory. The content of this directory was then:
Xemacs/SuseRPM> dir
total 38964
-rw-r--r-- 1 users 7402220 2005-09-21 13:41 xemacs-21.5.22-0.1.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 users 1183107 2005-09-21 13:33 xemacs-el-21.5.22-0.1.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 users 2058946 2005-09-21 13:33 xemacs-info-21.5.22-0.1.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 users 16571814 2005-09-22 08:35 xemacs-packages-20050715-0.1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 users 10001272 2005-09-22 08:32 xemacs-packages-el-20050715-0.1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 users 2612993 2005-09-22 08:29
xemacs-packages-info-20050715-0.1.noarch.rpm
Xemacs/SuseRPM>
Then I did as root the command
rpm -Uhv xemacs-21.5.22-0.1.i586.rpm xemacs-el-21.5.22-0.1.i586.rpm
xemacs-info-21.5.22-0.1.i586.rpm xemacs-packages-20050715-0.1.noarch.rpm
xemacs-packages-el-20050715-0.1.noarch.rpm xemacs-packages-info-20050715-0.1.noarch.rpm
This worked and my XEmacs installation was changed.
After rebooting, I tried out the new version of XEmacs.
The good news is that the primary selection is now copied to the kill
ring as it should. Thus, I can now kill a marked region, and if I
afterwards mark a region with the left mouse button, I can copy it
via the middle mouse button somewhere else in the file.
However, the bad news is that many other things do not work now.
For example, when I give the command
xemacs filename
then XEmacs opens with a blank screen with the error message:
No such coding system, iso-8859-14
In order to get the contents of the file into the visible buffer, I
have to click on the File menue item and then on Open.
I addition, XEmacs does not recognize my customization files, and if I
try to customize XEmacs via the Options menue, I cannot save the
changes being made in the Options menue.
Instead, I get the error message:
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Now, What should I do?
Best regards
Ernst Joachim
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