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authorGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2014-01-09 14:42:46 -0500
committerGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2014-01-09 14:42:46 -0500
commit236433d624037a970534da5e7c9125020e0fb4d3 (patch)
tree155738488f62cf9b071c78773556405ab7aec402 /etc/PROBLEMS
parent1669fab91c67287fbfdf7d1ace8128b8a3df28bd (diff)
* etc/PROBLEMS: Remove more ancient, irrelevant stuff
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@@ -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