[Chmouel Boudjnah <devel@mandrakesoft.com>] [CHRPM] xemacs-21.1.12-9mdk

For 21.2 only; patch for 21.1 under separate head. Chmouel> Can the "Mandrake is not supported" patch could be Chmouel> removed ? Sure. Comments to me; I will commit to CVS in a couple of days unless you comment or the XEmacs Review Board does. Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.155.2.224 diff -u -U0 -r1.155.2.224 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2000/12/19 08:42:19 1.155.2.224 +++ ChangeLog 2000/12/26 06:00:24 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,16 ＠＠ +2000-12-26 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * PROBLEMS (Running/Linux): Undeprecate Mandrake; tip for color-gcc. + +2000-12-20 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * PROBLEMS (Linux): document Mandrake policy, how to get Meta on + Alt, and getaddrinfo() blocking trying to get localhost's CNAME. + +2000-07-20 Kazuyuki IENAGA <ienaga(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * configure.in: use input-method-xlib.o for USE_XFONTSET instead + of input-method-xfs.o. + + * configure: ditto + Index: PROBLEMS =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/PROBLEMS,v retrieving revision 1.26.2.20 diff -u -r1.26.2.20 PROBLEMS --- PROBLEMS 2000/12/20 14:55:53 1.26.2.20 +++ PROBLEMS 2000/12/26 06:00:29 ＠＠ -1258,20 +1258,23 ＠＠ ** Linux -*** Mandrake (all versions) +*** Mandrake -Cannot be fully supported by XEmacs developers because they insist on -applying known broken patches. +The Mandrake Linux distribution is attempting to comprehensively +update the user interface, and make it consistent across +applications. This is very difficult, and will occasionally cause +conflicts with applications like Emacs with their own long-established +interfaces. Known issues specific to Mandrake or especially common: -One known issue is that on keyboards with both a Meta key (typically -the Windows key on PCs) and an Alt key, XEmacs wants to bind the Meta -modifier to the Meta key. Mandrake has a policy that XEmacs -Meta-chords should use the Alt key, which they enforce by patching -XEmacs's modifier-handling code, making the Meta and Alt modifiers -synonymous. This will break planned upgrades to XEmacs to allow menu -hotkeys; be warned. See next topic for how to implement Meta-on-Alt -portably. +Some versions of XEmacs distributed with Mandrake were patched to make +the Meta and Alt keysyms synonymous. These normally work as expected +in the Mandrake environment. However, custom-built XEmacsen will seem +to "inexplicably" not respect the "Alt-invokes-Meta-commands" convention. +See "I want XEmacs to use the Alt key" below. +The color-gcc wrapper (see below) is in common use on the Mandrake +platform. + *** I want XEmacs to use the Alt key, not the XXX key, for Meta commands For historical reasons, XEmacs looks for a Meta key, then an Alt key. ＠＠ -1284,12 +1287,22 ＠＠ One correct way to implement this was suggested on comp.emacs.xemacs (by Kilian Foth and in more detail by Michael Piotrowski): unmap the Meta modifier using xmodmap or xkb, and then map the Meta/Windows key -to the Super or Hyper modifier. XEmacs will not find the Meta keysym, -and default to using the Alt key for Meta keybindings. Typically few -applications use the (X11) Meta modifier (sawfish is one); it is -tedious but not too much so to teach them to use Super instead of -Meta. There may be further useful hints in the discussion of -keymapping on non-Linux platforms. +to the Super or Hyper keysym and an appropriate mod bit. XEmacs will +not find the Meta keysym, and default to using the Alt key for Meta +keybindings. Typically few applications use the (X11) Meta modifier; +it is tedious but not too much so to teach the ones you need to use +Super instead of Meta. There may be further useful hints in the +discussion of keymapping on non-Linux platforms. + +*** The color-gcc wrapper + +This wrapper colorizes the error messages from gcc. By default XEmacs +does not interpret the escape sequences used to generate colors, +resulting in a cluttered, hard-to-read buffer. You can remove or +defeat the wrapper, or you may get good results from the ansi-color.el +library: + +http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/color-emacs.html#ansicolors *** You get crashes in a non-C locale with Linux GNU Libc 2.0. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."