On May 26, Kendall P. Bullen wrote > Hi All, > > I'm having weird problems with EMACS. I just installed Debian 1.2 > (rex-fixed, actually, so that would be 1.2.15 at the time I snarfed > it, methinks) -- a clean install, onto a fresh HD. As I recall, EMACS > required some X library or other (I don't have X on my system), which > seemed odd to me, but whatever.
This doesn't seem to be in the FAQ, but programs which *allow* operation under X-Windows are always linked against the X libraries under Debian. The large part of the X system is the server and the programs; the base library is reasonably small (1.5Mb or thereabouts, which admittedly isn't tiny), and doing it this way avoids having two binaries in every package, or two packages for everything like this. > Basically, the display in EMACS gets garbled frequently. [snip rest of description] This is probably not the case, but I thought I'd mention it; you aren't by any chance using XEmacs rather than FSF Emacs, are you? ISTR getting this problem with 19.14; although it has been fixed in 19.15 (in Hamm), this version has it's own problems. Sorry I can't suggest any fixes if this is the case, though. :( &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- Sleep, sweet child, The moon will change your mind. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
