silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (SILBAR, RICHARD R.) (04/08/91)
Some oddities in my setting up of the new John Myers (thanks again, John!) front-end to Emacs that works in 2.0. Unfortunately, for me, only sort of. There are the following peculiarities. First, I didn't see, in the Makefile, any reference to the "streams/error.h" include-file that was brought up here a few weeks ago by someone. I made the (soft) link to "objc/error.h" anyway, figuring it couldn't hurt anything. The "make" of the executable seems to have gone without error. However, when I launch Emacs, I get the following error in the "message line window" at the bottom of the screen: "stack overflow in byte code (byte compiler bug), pc = 7" I don't know what that means, but I suspect that something might be wrong in my .emacs file. One reason for the suspicion is that the Emacs I get is not totally dys- functional. After a while a "$" came up in the *scratch* window, and I could proceed to load a file into an edit buffer. I can move around the file with arrows and control keys, the <alt> functions as a <meta> (as God so intended), but I have no mouse functions at all. I believe I moved all the eterm files into their proper places, but having written that reminds me I should check this point. Earlier, back in 1.0 days but after I took the NeXT off the net, I was getting an error message that emacs couldn't find the host named "whistler", which is what the NeXT used to be called. I haven't seen that message for a while, but in that version ALSO (after the error started to appear) I had no mouse functions. I didn't bother to try to fix that back then because I was "soon" about to upgrade to 2.0. Besides, I may have fixed this hostname error somewhere along the line, following some suggestion made here, but I don't recall the details right now. Anyone know what's going on? Dick Silbar
charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) (04/08/91)
I haven't had any of the problems described with the mouse-even the 'paste' is fixed. (Recall, however, that I did *not* compile Emacs on my machine, but just used the binary that was in the tar file.) One problem I have experienced is that sometimes C-x C-c won't exit emacs-it just repeats the control sequence in the mini-buffer. QUIT on the menu always works (but sometimes I must click it two or three times.) Has anyone seen this one before? Charlie