cowan@spanky.sps.mot.com (02/06/90)
Netters, I have been trying desperately to get emacs 18.55 to work correctly under X windows, but to no avail. I have even posted questions previous to this and worked with the clues some of you nice folk gave me. Yet, I still see some weird things with my version of 18.55. First weirdness: Why do I only see what apparently is a subset of the possible X related emacs functions when I do a M-x x-(file completion)? When I use completion to list all the X functions this is what I see: Possible completions are: x-flip-color x-flush-mouse-queue x-new-display x-set-background-color x-set-bell x-set-border-color x-set-border-width x-set-cursor-color x-set-font x-set-foreground-color x-set-internal-border-width x-set-mouse-color x-store-cut-buffer Thats it. Is this what you see? I suspect that many critical functions are missing from my list, but I have no idea if this is true. If it is true, why am I only getting these functions? To help answere these questions, here are some word counts from some of the critical files. Check them against your files to see if I've got the right stuff: wc src/x*.c 897 2662 22421 x11fns.c 2398 6312 53218 x11term.c 2039 8239 57449 xdisp.c 1401 4566 38193 xfns.c 419 1553 11952 xmenu.c 1921 6029 46341 xterm.c wc lisp/x*.el 146 631 5259 lisp/x-menu.el 279 1091 10679 lisp/x-mouse.el 864 3067 30906 lisp/xscheme.el wc lisp/term/x*.el 222 1016 7889 x-win.el 2 13 89 xterm.el I am compiling with the following config.h settings: #include "s-sunos4.h" #include "m-sparc.h" #define HAVE_X_WINDOWS #define X11 #define HAVE_X_MENU Other weirdness: There is some other weirdness happening, but I think its all related to the weirdness I've described above. Anyone got a clue for me? -AC Andy Cowan cowan@soleil.sps.mot.com (602)821-4942
raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) (02/08/90)
This is an inquiry about a different problem that's proving elusive to locate. The GNU emacs code is version 18.54 on an HP 9000/370 running HP-UX 6.5 with a patched C compiler. When X11R4 arrived I deleted src/x11term.o and src/x11fns.o, and remade emacs with R4 includes and libraries. No emacs source code has changed, and the only these two object modules have changed. I've done the remake twice, once using +O2 (-O) for the compilations, and once using +O1. Changing fro +O2 to +O1 did NOT change emacs' behavior. The problem happens intermittently when starting emacs. Perhaps 2/3 of the time it starts normally. Sometimes it appears to either hang or loop after its window is mapped but before anything is drawn into the window. When it does this, it usually sits there benignly. On occasion it appears to go wild in some way that floods the system with page-swapping activity. On rare occasions this will virtually disable the system. On one of those rare occasions I tried an extreme abort by hitting control-shift-reset to abort X. To my amazement it didn't abort X, but it DID cure the problem -- the emacs window suddenly came to life; it initialized, loaded the file to be edited, and operated normally. This problem is intermittent. It seems possible that cursor motion or window manager functions might be involved, but I haven't been able to prove that yet. If anyone else has experienced this problem, or has a clue to its cause, I'd appreciate hearing about it. An email message would be best -- I'll be out of town for ~1.5 weeks. ---------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@isi.edu