Known Problems with GNU Emacs
-Copyright (C) 1987-1989, 1993-1999, 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1987-1989, 1993-1999, 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
** Emacs crashes when running in a terminal, if compiled with GCC 4.5.0
This version of GCC is buggy: see
- http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6031
+ http://debbugs.gnu.org/6031
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43904
You can work around this error in gcc-4.5 by omitting sibling call
untar it :-).
** Emacs can crash when displaying PNG images with transparency.
-This is due to a bug introduced in ImageMagick 6.8.2-3. The bug
-should be fixed in ImageMagick 6.8.3-10. Please see Bug#13867.
+This is due to a bug introduced in ImageMagick 6.8.2-3. The bug should
+be fixed in ImageMagick 6.8.3-10. See <URL:http://debbugs.gnu.org/13867>.
** Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version
libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1.
though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell,
or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value.
-*** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice
-to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
-
-This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
-with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
-another escape character in kermit. One user did
-
- set escape-character 17
-
-in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
-
** Mailers and other helper programs
*** movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server.
example, work fine. A bug report has been filed in the Gnome
bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357032
-*** Gnome: Emacs' xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal.
+*** Gnome: Emacs's xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal.
A symptom of this bug is that double-clicks insert a control sequence
into the buffer. The reason this happens is an apparent
1) If you don't need X Input Methods (XIM) for entering text in some
language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by using
the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect
- the use of Emacs' own input methods, which are part of the Leim
+ the use of Emacs's own input methods, which are part of the Leim
package.
2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider
`global-font-lock-mode'.
** Unexpected characters inserted into the buffer when you start Emacs.
-See eg http://debbugs.gnu.org/11129
+See e.g. <URL:http://debbugs.gnu.org/11129>
This can happen when you start Emacs in -nw mode in an Xterm.
For example, in the *scratch* buffer, you might see something like:
exec ssh "$@"
*** GNU/Linux: Truncated svn annotate output with SSH.
-http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7791
+http://debbugs.gnu.org/7791
The symptoms are: you are accessing a svn repository over SSH.
You use vc-annotate on a large (several thousand line) file, and the
same contents as the one used above for CVS_RSH, and set the SVN_SSH
environment variable to point to it.
-*** GNU/Linux: On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
-5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.
-
-This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized.
-One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is
-known to work.
-
*** GNU/Linux: After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs,
the Meta key stops working.
Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor,
change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command.
-*** GNU/Linux: Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems.
-
-There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16
-caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the
-problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it
-is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16.
-
-Using the old library version is a workaround.
-
** FreeBSD
*** FreeBSD 2.1.5: useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other
is missing, all Emacs networking features are disabled.
Old versions of Windows 95 may not have the required DLL. To use
-Emacs' networking features on Windows 95, you must install the
+Emacs's networking features on Windows 95, you must install the
"Windows Socket 2" update available from MicroSoft's support Web.
** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for MS-Windows.
AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set
to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt.
-** Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs' display is incorrect.
+** Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs's display is incorrect.
The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
** Configuration
-*** The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
-
-There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker
-by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by
-default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'.
-
-If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the
-`--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a
-shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun
-the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library.
-Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file
-explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG.
-
*** `configure' warns ``accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor''.
This indicates a mismatch between the C compiler and preprocessor that
The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
cannot easily arrange to supply them.
-*** Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined.
-
-Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS.
-
*** `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.
This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in
Compiling the lisp files fails at random places, complaining:
"No rule to make target `/path/to/some/lisp.elc'".
The causes of this problem are not understood. Using GNU make 3.81 compiled
-from source, rather than the Ubuntu version, worked. See Bug#327,821.
+from source, rather than the Ubuntu version, worked.
+See <URL:http://debbugs.gnu.org/327, <URL:http://debbugs.gnu.org/821>.
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