ray@rogue.llnl.gov (Ray, Scott) (01/23/90)
I'm having some difficulty running GNU emacs (version 18.41) in conjunction with the VMS (version 5.0 ?) SET HOST command. Here's the details: 1. I have a Vaxstation 2000. emacs works well when I run it this machine. 2. I frequently do a SET HOST to another Vax from my workstation and fire up emacs on the other Vax. This is when the problem occurs. 3. The problem does not occur if I log in directly to the other Vax from a standard terminal (no SET HOST involved). Here's the symptoms: 1. I'm merrily working along and I do an ESC-X to get to the extended command set. Then I change my mind or mistype the command line and hit a ^G to abort and go back to what I was doing. 2. The terminal beeps but the cursor stays frozen on the extended command line until I type another command. 3. From here on out, the display and my keyboard commands are out of sync. I type a command (say ^F) and a previous command takes action. I type another command (say ^B) and the ^F takes action. Sometimes it seems to be one command out of sync and sometimes more. Needless to say this is very annoying. The only way out of this mess is to hit ^X^C repeatedly until emacs finally decides to exit. 4. The incantation described in 1. above that creates this mess does not do the job every time. Sometimes things work fine and sometimes they muck up. Statistically, things muck up about 1/3 of the time. 5. Upon exiting emacs when it is in this state, things generally are fine. The result of the SHOW TERM command is the same as that obtained before the problem. 6. On occasion though, when emacs is exited in this mucked up state, VMS complains about a "termination character not seen." Subsequently, my interaction with DCL seems to be off by a carriage return or a line feed or something. Any ideas? Scott Ray ray@icdc.llnl.gov
rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts) (01/24/90)
In article <45593@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> ray@icdc.llnl.gov writes: >I'm having some difficulty running GNU emacs (version 18.41) in >conjunction with the VMS (version 5.0 ?) SET HOST command. > >Here's the details: > 1. I have a Vaxstation 2000. emacs works well when I run it this machine. ... You may wish to try updating emacs to a newer version. We're running 18.55 and I haven't seen this problem in the last five minor versions. I also often do a set host and run emacs. I can't swear that it's due to the version of emacs, but I do know there were some changes that affected VMS due to at least one VAXC RTL bug. roland -- Roland Roberts, University of Rochester BITNET: roberts@uornsrl Nuclear Structure Research Lab INTERNET: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu 271 East River Road UUCP: rochester!ur-cc!rbr4 Rochester, NY 14267 AT&T: (716) 275-8962