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-
-2 Installation and Trouble Shooting
-***********************************
-
- This is part 2 of the XEmacs Frequently Asked Questions list. This
-section is devoted to Installation, Maintenance and Trouble Shooting.
-
-* Menu:
-
-Installation:
-* Q2.0.1:: Running XEmacs without installing.
-* Q2.0.2:: XEmacs is too big.
-* Q2.0.3:: Compiling XEmacs with Netaudio.
-* Q2.0.4:: Problems with Linux and ncurses.
-* Q2.0.5:: Do I need X11 to run XEmacs?
-* Q2.0.6:: I'm having strange crashes. What do I do?
-* Q2.0.7:: Libraries in non-standard locations.
-* Q2.0.8:: can't resolve symbol _h_errno
-* Q2.0.9:: Where do I find external libraries?
-* Q2.0.10:: After I run configure I find a coredump, is something wrong?
-* Q2.0.11:: XEmacs can't resolve host names.
-* Q2.0.12:: Why can't I strip XEmacs?
-* Q2.0.13:: Can't link XEmacs on Solaris with Gcc.
-* Q2.0.14:: Make on HP/UX 9 fails after linking temacs
-
-Trouble Shooting:
-* Q2.1.1:: XEmacs just crashed on me!
-* Q2.1.2:: Cryptic Minibuffer messages.
-* Q2.1.3:: Translation Table Syntax messages at Startup.
-* Q2.1.4:: Startup warnings about deducing proper fonts?
-* Q2.1.5:: XEmacs cannot connect to my X Terminal.
-* Q2.1.6:: XEmacs just locked up my Linux X server.
-* Q2.1.7:: HP Alt key as Meta.
-* Q2.1.8:: got (wrong-type-argument color-instance-p nil)!
-* Q2.1.9:: XEmacs causes my OpenWindows 3.0 server to crash.
-* Q2.1.10:: Warnings from incorrect key modifiers.
-* Q2.1.11:: Can't instantiate image error... in toolbar
-* Q2.1.12:: Regular Expression Problems on DEC OSF1.
-* Q2.1.13:: HP/UX 10.10 and `create_process' failure
-* Q2.1.14:: C-g doesn't work for me. Is it broken?
-* Q2.1.15:: How to debug an XEmacs problem with a debugger.
-* Q2.1.16:: XEmacs crashes in `strcat' on HP/UX 10.
-* Q2.1.17:: `Marker does not point anywhere'.
-* Q2.1.18:: 19.14 hangs on HP/UX 10.10.
-* Q2.1.19:: XEmacs does not follow the local timezone.
-* Q2.1.20:: `Symbol's function definition is void: hkey-help-show.'
-* Q2.1.21:: Every so often the XEmacs frame freezes.
-* Q2.1.22:: XEmacs seems to take a really long time to do some things.
-* Q2.1.23:: Movemail on Linux does not work for XEmacs 19.15 and later.
-* Q2.1.24:: XEmacs won't start without network. (NEW)
-
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-2.0: Installation
-=================
-
-Q2.0.1: Running XEmacs without installing
------------------------------------------
-
- The `INSTALL' file says that up to 108 MB of space is needed
-temporarily during installation! How can I just try it out?
-
- XEmacs will run in place without requiring installation and copying
-of the Lisp directories, and without having to specify a special
-build-time flag. It's the copying of the Lisp directories that
-requires so much space. XEmacs is largely written in Lisp.
-
- A good method is to make a shell alias for xemacs:
-
- alias xemacs=/i/xemacs-20.2/src/xemacs
-
- (You will obviously use whatever directory you downloaded the source
-tree to instead of `/i/xemacs-20.2').
-
- This will let you run XEmacs without massive copying.
-
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Q2.0.2: XEmacs is too big
then proceed to link against the DNS resolver library code.
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Q2.0.12: Why can't I strip XEmacs?
----------------------------------
/usr/local/lib/xemacs-19.16/i586-unknown-linuxaout
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-
-Q2.0.13: Problems linking with Gcc on Solaris
----------------------------------------------
-
- There are known difficulties linking with Gnu ld on Solaris. A
-typical error message might look like:
-
- unexec(): dlopen(../dynodump/dynodump.so): ld.so.1: ./temacs:
- fatal: relocation error:
- symbol not found: main: referenced in ../dynodump/dynodump.so
-
- Martin Buchholz <martin@xemacs.org> writes:
-
- You need to specify `-fno-gnu-linker' as part of your flags to pass
- to ld. Future releases of XEmacs will try to do this
- automatically.
-
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-
-Q2.0.14: Make on HP/UX 9 fails after linking temacs
----------------------------------------------------
-
- Problem when building xemacs-19.16 on hpux 9:
-
- Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
-
- make on hpux fails after linking temacs with a message:
-
- "make: don't know how to make .y."
-
- Solution: This is a problem with HP make revision 70.X. Either
- use GNU make, or install PHCO_6552, which will bring make to
- revision 72.24.1.17.
-
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2.1: Trouble Shooting
=====================
you've got is a core dump, all is not lost.
If you're using GDB, there are some macros in the file
- `src/gdbinit' in the XEmacs source distribution that should make it
- easier for you to decode Lisp objects. Copy this file to
- `~/.gdbinit', or `source' it from `~/.gdbinit', and use the macros
- defined therein. In particular, use the `pobj' macro to print the
- internal C representation of a lisp object. This will work with a
- core file or not-yet-run executable. The aliases `ldp' and `lbt'
- are provided for conveniently calling `debug_print' and
- `debug_backtrace'.
+ `src/.gdbinit' in the XEmacs source distribution that should make
+ it easier for you to decode Lisp objects. This file is
+ automatically read by gdb if gdb is run in the directory where
+ xemacs was built, and contains these useful macros to inspect the
+ state of xemacs:
+
+ `pobj'
+ Usage: pobj lisp_object
+ Print the internal C representation of a lisp object.
+
+ `xtype'
+ Usage: xtype lisp_object
+ Print the Lisp type of a lisp object.
+
+ `lbt'
+ Usage: lbt
+ Print the current Lisp stack trace. Requires a running
+ xemacs process.
+
+ `ldp'
+ Usage: ldp lisp_object
+ Print a Lisp Object value using the Lisp printer. Requires a
+ running xemacs process.
+
+ `run-temacs'
+ Usage: run-temacs
+ Run temacs interactively, like xemacs. Use this with
+ debugging tools (like purify) that cannot deal with dumping,
+ or when temacs builds successfully, but xemacs does not.
+
+ `dump-temacs'
+ Usage: dump-temacs
+ Run the dumping part of the build procedure. Use when
+ debugging temacs, not xemacs! Use this when temacs builds
+ successfully, but xemacs does not.
+
+ `check-xemacs'
+ Usage: check-xemacs
+ Run the test suite. Equivalent to 'make check'.
+
+ `check-temacs'
+ Usage: check-temacs
+ Run the test suite on temacs. Equivalent to 'make
+ check-temacs'. Use this with debugging tools (like purify)
+ that cannot deal with dumping, or when temacs builds
+ successfully, but xemacs does not.
If you are using Sun's `dbx' debugger, there is an equivalent file
- `src/dbxrc' to copy to or source from `~/.dbxrc'.
+ `src/.dbxrc', which defines the same commands for dbx.
* If you're using a debugger to get a C stack backtrace and you're
seeing stack traces with some of the innermost frames mangled, it
* If you compile with the newer gcc variants gcc-2.8 or egcs, you
- will also need gdb 4.17. Earlier releases of gdb can't handle the
- debug information generated by the newer compilers.
+ will also need gdb 4.17 or above. Earlier releases of gdb can't
+ handle the debug information generated by the newer compilers.
- * The above information on using `src/gdbinit' works for XEmacs-21.0
- and above. For older versions of XEmacs, there are different
- `gdbinit' files provided in the `src' directory. Use the one
- corresponding to the configure options used when building XEmacs.
+ * In versions of XEmacs before 21.2.27, `src/.gdbinit' was named
+ `src/gdbinit'. This had the disadvantage of not being sourced
+ automatically by gdb, so you had to set that up yourself.
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-Q2.1.18: 19.14 hangs on HP/UX 10.10.
-------------------------------------
-
- Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
-
- For the record, compiling on hpux 10.10 leads to a hang in Gnus
- when compiled with optimization on.
-
- I've just discovered that my hpux 10.01 binary was working less
- well than expected. In fact, on a 10.10 system, `(while t)' was not
- interrupted by `C-g'. I defined `BROKEN_SIGIO' and recompiled on
- 10.10, and... the hang is now gone.
-
- As far as configure goes, this will be a bit tricky: `BROKEN_SIGIO'
- is needed on 10.10, but *not* on 10.01: if I run my 10.01 binary
- on a 10.01 machine, without `BROKEN_SIGIO' being defined, `C-g'
- works as expected.
-
- Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> adds:
-
- Apparently somebody has found the reason why there is this `poll:
- interrupted...' message for each event. For some reason, libcurses
- reimplements a `select()' system call, in a highly broken fashion.
- The fix is to add a -lc to the link line _before_ the -lxcurses.
- XEmacs will then use the right version of `select()'.
-
- Alain Fauconnet <af@biomath.jussieu.fr> writes:
-
- The _real_ solution is to _not_ link -lcurses in! I just changed
- -lcurses to -ltermcap in the Makefile and it fixed:
-
- 1. The `poll: interrupted system call' message.
-
- 2. A more serious problem I had discovered in the meantime, that
- is the fact that subprocess handling was seriously broken:
- subprocesses e.g. started by AUC TeX for TeX compilation of a
- buffer would _hang_. Actually they would wait forever for
- emacs to read the socket which connects stdout...
+Q2.1.18: removed
+----------------
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-Q2.1.21: Every so often the XEmacs frame freezes
-------------------------------------------------
-
- This problem has been fixed in 19.15, and was due to a not easily
-reproducible race condition.
+Q2.1.21: [This question intentionally left blank]
+-------------------------------------------------
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+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Customization, Next: Subsystems, Prev: Installation, Up: Top
+
+3 Customization and Options
+***************************
+
+ This is part 3 of the XEmacs Frequently Asked Questions list. This
+section is devoted to Customization and screen settings.
+
+* Menu:
+
+Customization---Emacs Lisp and `.emacs':
+* Q3.0.1:: What version of Emacs am I running?
+* Q3.0.2:: How do I evaluate Elisp expressions?
+* Q3.0.3:: `(setq tab-width 6)' behaves oddly.
+* Q3.0.4:: How can I add directories to the `load-path'?
+* Q3.0.5:: How to check if a lisp function is defined?
+* Q3.0.6:: Can I force the output of `(face-list)' to a buffer?
+* Q3.0.7:: Font selections don't get saved after `Save Options'.
+* Q3.0.8:: How do I make a single minibuffer frame?
+* Q3.0.9:: What is `Customize'?
+
+X Window System & Resources:
+* Q3.1.1:: Where is a list of X resources?
+* Q3.1.2:: How can I detect a color display?
+* Q3.1.3:: [This question intentionally left blank]
+* Q3.1.4:: [This question intentionally left blank]
+* Q3.1.5:: How can I get the icon to just say `XEmacs'?
+* Q3.1.6:: How can I have the window title area display the full path?
+* Q3.1.7:: `xemacs -name junk' doesn't work?
+* Q3.1.8:: `-iconic' doesn't work.
+
+Textual Fonts & Colors:
+* Q3.2.1:: How can I set color options from `.emacs'?
+* Q3.2.2:: How do I set the text, menu and modeline fonts?
+* Q3.2.3:: How can I set the colors when highlighting a region?
+* Q3.2.4:: How can I limit color map usage?
+* Q3.2.5:: My tty supports color, but XEmacs doesn't use them.
+* Q3.2.6:: Can I have pixmap backgrounds in XEmacs?
+
+The Modeline:
+* Q3.3.1:: How can I make the modeline go away?
+* Q3.3.2:: How do you have XEmacs display the line number in the modeline?
+* Q3.3.3:: How do I get XEmacs to put the time of day on the modeline?
+* Q3.3.4:: How do I turn off current chapter from AUC TeX modeline?
+* Q3.3.5:: How can one change the modeline color based on the mode used?
+
+3.4 Multiple Device Support:
+* Q3.4.1:: How do I open a frame on another screen of my multi-headed display?
+* Q3.4.2:: Can I really connect to a running XEmacs after calling up over a modem? How?
+
+3.5 The Keyboard:
+* Q3.5.1:: How can I bind complex functions (or macros) to keys?
+* Q3.5.2:: How can I stop down-arrow from adding empty lines to the bottom of my buffers?
+* Q3.5.3:: How do I bind C-. and C-; to scroll one line up and down?
+* Q3.5.4:: Globally binding Delete?
+* Q3.5.5:: Scrolling one line at a time.
+* Q3.5.6:: How to map Help key alone on Sun type4 keyboard?
+* Q3.5.7:: How can you type in special characters in XEmacs?
+* Q3.5.8:: Why does `(global-set-key [delete-forward] 'delete-char)' complain?
+* Q3.5.9:: How do I make the Delete key delete forward?
+* Q3.5.10:: Can I turn on "sticky" modifier keys?
+* Q3.5.11:: How do I map the arrow keys?
+
+The Cursor:
+* Q3.6.1:: Is there a way to make the bar cursor thicker?
+* Q3.6.2:: Is there a way to get back the old block cursor where the cursor covers the character in front of the point?
+* Q3.6.3:: Can I make the cursor blink?
+
+The Mouse and Highlighting:
+* Q3.7.1:: How can I turn off Mouse pasting?
+* Q3.7.2:: How do I set control/meta/etc modifiers on mouse buttons?
+* Q3.7.3:: Clicking the left button does not do anything in buffer list.
+* Q3.7.4:: How can I get a list of buffers when I hit mouse button 3?
+* Q3.7.5:: Why does cut-and-paste not work between XEmacs and a cmdtool?
+* Q3.7.6:: How I can set XEmacs up so that it pastes where the text cursor is?
+* Q3.7.7:: How do I select a rectangular region?
+* Q3.7.8:: Why does M-w take so long?
+
+The Menubar and Toolbar:
+* Q3.8.1:: How do I get rid of the menu (or menubar)?
+* Q3.8.2:: Can I customize the basic menubar?
+* Q3.8.3:: How do I control how many buffers are listed in the menu `Buffers' list?
+* Q3.8.4:: Resources like `Emacs*menubar*font' are not working?
+* Q3.8.5:: How can I bind a key to a function to toggle the toolbar?
+
+Scrollbars:
+* Q3.9.1:: How can I disable the scrollbar?
+* Q3.9.2:: How can one use resources to change scrollbar colors?
+* Q3.9.3:: Moving the scrollbar can move the point; can I disable this?
+* Q3.9.4:: How can I get automatic horizontal scrolling?
+
+Text Selections:
+* Q3.10.1:: How can I turn off or change highlighted selections?
+* Q3.10.2:: How do I get that typing on an active region removes it?
+* Q3.10.3:: Can I turn off the highlight during isearch?
+* Q3.10.4:: How do I turn off highlighting after C-x C-p (mark-page)?
+* Q3.10.5:: The region disappears when I hit the end of buffer while scrolling.
+
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+
+3.0: Customization - Emacs Lisp and .emacs
+==========================================
+
+Q3.0.1: What version of Emacs am I running?
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ How can `.emacs' determine which of the family of Emacsen I am using?
+
+ To determine if you are currently running GNU Emacs 18, GNU Emacs 19,
+XEmacs 19, XEmacs 20, or Epoch, and use appropriate code, check out the
+example given in `etc/sample.emacs'. There are other nifty things in
+there as well!
+
+ For all new code, all you really need to do is:
+
+ (defvar running-xemacs (string-match "XEmacs\\|Lucid" emacs-version))
+
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+
+Q3.0.2: How can I evaluate Emacs-Lisp expressions?
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+ I know I can evaluate Elisp expressions from `*scratch*' buffer with
+`C-j' after the expression. How do I do it from another buffer?
+
+ Press `M-:' (the default binding of `eval-expression'), and enter
+the expression to the minibuffer. In XEmacs prior to 19.15
+`eval-expression' used to be a disabled command by default. If this is
+the case, upgrade your XEmacs.
+
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+File: xemacs-faq.info, Node: Q3.0.3, Next: Q3.0.4, Prev: Q3.0.2, Up: Customization
+
+Q3.0.3: `(setq tab-width 6)' behaves oddly.
+-------------------------------------------
+
+ If you put `(setq tab-width 6)' in your `.emacs' file it does not
+work! Is there a reason for this? If you do it at the EVAL prompt it
+works fine!! How strange.
+
+ Use `setq-default' instead, since `tab-width' is all-buffer-local.
+
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+
+Q3.0.4: How can I add directories to the `load-path'?
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+ Here are two ways to do that, one that puts your directories at the
+front of the load-path, the other at the end:
+
+ ;;; Add things at the beginning of the load-path, do not add
+ ;;; duplicate directories:
+ (pushnew "bar" load-path :test 'equal)
+
+ (pushnew "foo" load-path :test 'equal)
+
+ ;;; Add things at the end, unconditionally
+ (setq load-path (nconc load-path '("foo" "bar")))
+
+ keith (k.p.) hanlan <keithh@nortel.ca> writes:
+
+ To add directories using Unix shell metacharacters use
+ `expand-file-name' like this:
+
+ (push (expand-file-name "~keithh/.emacsdir") load-path)
+
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