From 3e702d1649d4f4f67ed355a26ff707733c39e6d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:56:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/PROBLEMS: Small copyedits. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 35 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 332f28dd932..ae836cf73ec 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be are: - in your ~/.Xdefaults file - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or - /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs + /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find @@ -108,6 +107,7 @@ load-path. * Crash bugs ** 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/6031 @@ -154,10 +154,12 @@ If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to 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. See . ** Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version + libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1. Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an @@ -207,6 +209,7 @@ If you need Emacs to be able to recover from closing displays, compile it with the Lucid toolkit instead of GTK. ** Emacs crashes when you try to view a file with complex characters. + For example, the etc/HELLO file (as shown by C-h h). The message "symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/emacs: undefined symbol: OTF_open" is shown in the terminal from which you launched Emacs. @@ -600,22 +603,20 @@ and Latin-1 version of this character to display a space. *** Some of the fonts called for in your fontset may not exist on your X server. -Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs +Each X font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires many different fonts, collected into a fontset. You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can display all the characters Emacs supports. The etl-unicode collection -of fonts (available from and -) includes +of fonts (available from ) includes fonts that can display many Unicode characters; they can also be used by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode characters. -** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. +** Under X, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. -You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution -or the etl-unicode collection (see above). +You may have bad fonts. ** Under X, an unexpected monospace font is used as the default font. @@ -799,7 +800,7 @@ generally read correctly by Emacs 21. *** You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key. This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym -Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11 +Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap. @@ -900,7 +901,7 @@ into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs. This happens sometimes when using Metacity. Resizing Emacs or ALT-Tab:bing makes the system unresponsive to the mouse or the keyboard. Killing Emacs -or shifting out from X11 and back again usually cures it (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 +or shifting out from X and back again usually cures it (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Alt-F7). A bug for it is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/231034. Note that a permanent fix seems to be to disable "assistive technologies". @@ -1030,7 +1031,7 @@ the resource prevents the problem. ** General X problems -*** Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions. +*** Redisplay using X is much slower than previous Emacs versions. We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this @@ -1249,6 +1250,7 @@ You can get back menus on each frame by starting emacs like this: * Runtime problems on character terminals ** The meta key does not work on xterm. + Typing M-x rings the terminal bell, and inserts a string like ";120~". For recent xterm versions (>= 216), Emacs uses xterm's modifyOtherKeys feature to generate strings for key combinations that are not @@ -2145,7 +2147,7 @@ likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific. Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical -printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic +printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows's basic built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it has): @@ -2215,7 +2217,7 @@ running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X selection". -Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then +If this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it here. @@ -2282,8 +2284,7 @@ The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. First ensure that the necessary 32-bit system libraries and include files are installed. Then use: - env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu \ - --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib + env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu --x-libraries=/usr/lib (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). @@ -2522,8 +2523,8 @@ to regenerate all the .elc files. *** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted". -This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el files -during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more space than was allocated. +This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el files during +`temacs --batch --load loadup dump' took up more space than was allocated. This could be caused by 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files -- 2.39.2