This file describes various problems that have been encountered
in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.
-* Emacs hangs when changing the default font
+* Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font
This has been reported for fvwm 2.2.5 and the window manager of KDE
-2.1. The reason for the hang is that Xt waits indefinitely for a
-ConfigureNotify event from the window manager. A workaround is to add
-something like
+2.1. The reason for the pause is Xt waiting for a ConfigureNotify
+event from the window manager, which the window manager doesn't send.
+Xt stops waiting after a default timeout of usually 5 seconds.
+
+A workaround for this is to add something like
emacs.waitForWM: false
-to your X resources.
+to your X resources. or to add `(wait-for-wm . nil)' to a frame's
+parameter list.
* Underlines appear at the wrong position.
automatically.)
Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
-Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefile's.
+Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.
* Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.
2001-07-03 Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
+ * eval.c (specbind): If SYMBOL has a frame-local binding, record
+ the frame on the binding stack. Change format of entries for
+ local bindings on the binding stack to '(SYMBOL . WHERE)'.
+ (unbind_to): Handle unbinding a frame-local variable.
+
* xdisp.c (compute_line_metrics): On ttys, subtract continuation
glyphs and truncation glyphs at the end of a row from its pixel
width.