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authorGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2014-03-22 15:56:29 -0700
committerGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2014-03-22 15:56:29 -0700
commit3e702d1649d4f4f67ed355a26ff707733c39e6d8 (patch)
tree42f2d8027273a6db1829c7dddc9bc6a46e54e7bf /etc
parent4118be693dfc66e3640276e404012135ffbf07d4 (diff)
* etc/PROBLEMS: Small copyedits.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r--etc/PROBLEMS35
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 332f28dd93..ae836cf73e 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 <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.
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 <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and
-<URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/mirror/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>) includes
+of fonts (available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/>) 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 [email protected]. Then
+If this does not work, please inform [email protected]. Then
please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix.
If you do, please send it to [email protected] 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