Re: some bugs against 21.4.12

Jens> 1) "XEmacs hangs sometimes when run with multiple frames" There are a bunch of these weird X errors, and until someone who has a clue about how to debug them can reproduce them I doubt they're going to go away. I saw this exactly once (actually it was a bad GC), and never again. Jens> 2) "Cursors changes updating incorrectly/slowly" Never heard of this before. There's a known bug where with multiple frames the filled-box/empty-box that indicates whether an XEmacs frame is "live" gets out of synch. But that is a completely different mechanism from the X cursor. However, getting the wrong X cursor is something I've never seen or heard of. Sounds like window manager bogosity to me. Jens> 3) "shift key no longer recognized as modifier to function keys" There's breakage in old X servers such that Sh-Fn needs to get recognized as F(n+12) or something like that. I believe this symptom has been reported recently, along with a workaround. Jens> Is this an XEmacs change? No. It's possibly an XEmacs bug in that some workaround that was historically needed may need to be disabled. But there's been no change here in 21.4. n.b. There have been no changes to that kind of basic code on Unix platforms since 21.4.0 was released 25 months ago. Jens> 4) "xemacs does not grok OE/oe symbols, etc" There's code to automagically recognize these. We're investigating why it seems to have stopped working in some cases. Jens> 5) "mouse-avoidance-fancy-hook needs guarding" This has been reported several times, but we don't have a real fix for it. I am loath to wrap anything in a condition-case that simply ignores errors, as we have been screwed by that twice in the recent past. Jens> 6) "with fast-lock-mode Info-mode can't be quit" I don't remember this one. fast-lock mode is not used by any of the developers AFAIK, I really can't recommend it for anyone who doesn't want to support it themselves. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.