jwas@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) (04/07/90)
A user running elm 2.2pl13 gets the following error when doing a 'reply'
to a mail message:
t_token calls nested greater than 20 deep!
Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!
She says that she gets this message occasionally. Although when I asked her for
the mail that it had bombed on, it had already been read and deleted with
Unix mail.
Sorry, but I am not able to upgrade to pl16 on this machine.
Any suggestions?
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No shoes, no shirt, no dial tone.eric@abode.UUCP (Eric C. Bennett) (12/28/90)
I recently compiled Elm on my system and have come across a couple of
problems with it.
First off, it doesn't seem to like the 'ex' editor. If the users default
editor is ex he cannot send a message with elm. Here is an example. The
user is in elm, he uses the 'm' command to enter a message and then gets
the ':' prompt. After the user uses the 'a' command to add what he wants
to the message he needs to exit the editor and write and send the file.
Well, the problem is that the user cannot get out of the editor. You are
supposed to be able to hit the delete key and get the ':' prompt again
but it doesn't seem to work. Nothing I try will make the prompt appear.
But, elm works fine with the 'vi' editor.
Last note... I am only using Elm to patch level 5. If this was a problem
on earlier versions and I am not patched up to that please let me know. I
have patches 7, 8 and 9 and but I need to get 6 first.
If anyone here has any suggestions please send them to me in Email since I
do not regularly read this newsgroup.
Thanks
Eric
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If you can read this you aren't looking through the hubble space telescope!syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (12/28/90)
eric@abode.UUCP (Eric C. Bennett) writes:
:First off, it doesn't seem to like the 'ex' editor. If the users default
:editor is ex he cannot send a message with elm. Here is an example. The
:user is in elm, he uses the 'm' command to enter a message and then gets
:the ':' prompt. After the user uses the 'a' command to add what he wants
:to the message he needs to exit the editor and write and send the file.
:Well, the problem is that the user cannot get out of the editor. You are
:supposed to be able to hit the delete key and get the ':' prompt again
:but it doesn't seem to work. Nothing I try will make the prompt appear.
:But, elm works fine with the 'vi' editor.
The problem here is not with Elm, but with how you are using ex.
Ex ends append mode with an escape. DEL, your interrupt key, happens
to work also, but the proper code is escape.
Note, your ex is broken, as it sounds like it is not resetting
the interrupt trap correctly.
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