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Re: copyrights to be fixed
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joakim |
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Re: copyrights to be fixed |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:18:30 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Are there major gaps in the features?
>
> No, not that I have seen.
>
> A small number of people can't tell the answer to this question by
> running the program.
>
> We need the people who implemented the multi-tty code to tell us
> whether there are cases they have not handled yet that need to be
> handled to avoid loss of functionality.
This readme contains a list of known issues:
http://lorentey.hu/downloads/emacs/multi-tty/README.multi-tty
For convenience I paste the Known Problems list here:
Known problems:
* GTK support. If you compile your Emacs with the GTK
toolkit, some functionality of multi-tty will be lost. In
particular, you will not be able to work on multiple X
displays at once. Current releases of GTK have limitations
and bugs that prevent full-blown multi-display support in
Emacs. (GTK crashes when Emacs tries to disconnect from an
X server.) Use the Lucid toolkit if you want to see a
complete feature set.
* The single-kboard mode.
If your multi-tty Emacs session seems to be frozen, you
probably have a recursive editing session or a pending
minibuffer prompt (which is a kind of recursive editing) on
another display. To unfreeze your session, switch to that
display and complete the recursive edit, for example by
pressing C-] (`abort-recursive-edit').
I am sorry to say that currently there is no way to break
out of this "single-kboard mode" from a frozen display. If
you are unable to switch to the display that locks the
others (for example because it is on a remote computer),
then you can use emacsclient to break out of all recursive
editing sessions:
emacsclient -e '(top-level)'
Note that this (perhaps) unintuitive behaviour is by design.
Single-kboard mode is required because of an intrinsic Emacs
limitation that is very hard to eliminate. (This limitation
is related to the single-threaded nature of Emacs.)
I plan to implement better user notification and support for
breaking out of single-kboard mode from locked displays.
* Mac, Windows and DOS support is broken, doesn't even
compile. Multiple display support will probably not provide
new Emacs features on these systems, but the multi-tty
branch changed a few low-level interfaces, and the
system-dependent source files need to be adapted
accordingly. The changes are mostly trivial, so almost
anyone can help, if only by compiling the branch and
reporting the compiler errors.
--
Joakim Verona
http://www.verona.se
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, (continued)
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Chong Yidong, 2007/02/09
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/08
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Paul Pogonyshev, 2007/02/08
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, David Kastrup, 2007/02/09
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Romain Francoise, 2007/02/09
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/09
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, joakim, 2007/02/09
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/10
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/02/10
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/11
- Re: copyrights to be fixed,
joakim <=
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, David Kastrup, 2007/02/11
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Jan Djärv, 2007/02/11
- Re: copyrights to be fixed, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/12
- multi-tty branch + GTK (Re: copyrights to be fixed), rentey <address@hidden>, 2007/02/14
- Re: multi-tty branch + GTK (Re: copyrights to be fixed), Richard Stallman, 2007/02/14
- Re: multi-tty branch + GTK (Re: copyrights to be fixed), Karoly Lorentey, 2007/02/16
- Re: multi-tty branch + GTK (Re: copyrights to be fixed), Jan Djärv, 2007/02/15
- Re: multi-tty branch + GTK (Re: copyrights to be fixed), David Kastrup, 2007/02/15
- Re: multi-tty branch + GTK (Re: copyrights to be fixed), Jan Djärv, 2007/02/15
- Re: multi-tty branch + GTK (Re: copyrights to be fixed), Richard Stallman, 2007/02/15