Re: address@hidden: splash-screen and visiting file with command arg => help menu broken]

[Juri Linkov]

> Would someone please DTRT then ack?

I can't reproduce this bug on the released Emacs version:
GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.13)

And after recent changes in startup.el I suspect it will be not
reproducible at all, since now mouse clicks on the startup screen
don't hide it (unless clicked on a link).

> From: Philippe Waroquiers <address@hidden>
> Subject: splash-screen and visiting file with command arg => help menu broken
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:40:34 +0200 (METDST)
> Reply-To: address@hidden
>
> do the following:
>   touch bidule.el
>   emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file ./bidule.el
>   while the splash screen is there, click mouse-left (to see the file)
>   click on  Help -> Search Documentation -> Find Command by Name ...
>    this click has no effect.
>
> It looks like there is one way or another a strange interaction between
> the splash screen, the emacs lisp mode, the click and the Help menu.
>
> Note that when I use bidule.txt instead of bidule.el, it works.
> If I do not give a filename arg, and just clicks in the splash screen,
> then it works
>
> Note that the same actions do not cause a problem on an emacs 22
> compiled on gnu/linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 
> 4))
> with X toolkit, while this emacs 22 (on hp-ux) has been compiled with Motif.
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11, Motif Version 2.1.0)
>  of 2007-08-14 on bobcat
> Windowing system distributor `Hewlett-Packard Company', version 11.0.600000
> configured using `configure  'hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11' 
> '--prefix=/cm/ot/TOOL/GNU!12.46/build_G!67.IP.11/generated' 
> '--exec-prefix=/cm/ot/TOOL/GNU!12.46/build_G!67.IP.11/generated/libexec/emacs-22.1'
>  '--mandir=/cm/ot/TOOL/GNU!12.46/build_G!67.IP.11/generated/man' 
> '--with-gcc=no' '--with-xpm' '--with-x11r6' '--with-x-toolkit=motif' 
> '--x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11R6:/usr/contrib/X11R6/lib' 
> 'build_alias=hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11' 'host_alias=hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11' 
> 'target_alias=hppa1.1-hp-hpux11.11' 'CFLAGS=-Ae +O3 +Onolimit +Oaggressive 
> +DA1.1' 'LDFLAGS= 
> -L/cm/ot/TOOL/GNU!12.46/build_G!67.IP.11/generated/work/emacs-22.1/xpm-3.4k/lib'
>  
> 'CPPFLAGS=-I/cm/ot/TOOL/GNU!12.46/build_G!67.IP.11/generated/work/emacs-22.1/xpm-3.4k
>  ''

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/