From: Glenn Morris Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 19:42:46 +0000 (-0500) Subject: * etc/PROBLEMS: Remove more ancient, irrelevant stuff X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.3.90~173^2^2~42^2~45^2~387^2^2~27 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=236433d624037a970534da5e7c9125020e0fb4d3;p=emacs.git * etc/PROBLEMS: Remove more ancient, irrelevant stuff --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 6e7fe7d18ce..c3e172ec119 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -357,25 +357,6 @@ The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk). ** Problems with hostname resolution -*** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though -the names work properly with other programs on the same system. -*** Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0. -*** Gnus can't make contact with the specified host for nntp. - -This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared -libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the -shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a -similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses. - -The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with -the nameserver, but Emacs does not. - -The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you -installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs. - -If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a, -then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. - *** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name. For example, (system-name) returns some variation on @@ -499,13 +480,6 @@ ftp client. On a Debian system, type and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp. -*** JPEG images aren't displayed. - -This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library. -Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem. Configure checks for the -correct version, but this problem could occur if a binary built -against a shared libjpeg is run on a system with an older version. - *** Dired is very slow. This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long @@ -570,13 +544,6 @@ to work around the problem. Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details. -*** You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse -video, but later frames are not in inverse video. - -This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in -your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to -check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library. - *** When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error. This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII @@ -674,20 +641,6 @@ This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that lines do not overlap. -** Loading fonts is very slow. - -You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps. -Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font -directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file -"fonts.scale". - -If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable -font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details. - -With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font -directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26. -Changes in the future may make this unnecessary. - ** Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in incorrect faces. By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace