I have installed emacs21 today and while experimenting with it I noticed
the following changes in behaviour - both of them causing problems for
me:
1. According to the emacs news the Home and End keys will no longer take
me to the beginning or end of buffer. I have to use C-Home and C-End.
No problem on X-windows, but this does not work on tty.
2. The second problem also relates to the behaviour of emacs on a tty:
I normally use the following script to activate gnuserv or gnuclient:
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#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
LEER="/tmp/gnuserv.`date +'%H%M%S'`"
else
LEER=$1
fi
pidof emacs && gnuclient -q $LEER || emacs -f gnuserv-start $LEER
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If the first instance of emacs is running on a tty, gnuclient just opens
a new buffer on the existing emacs - even if I want it to run under X11.
If the gnuserv was started under X11, I get the following error when
trying to run the script (above):
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Restarting gnuserv
(New file)
error in process filter: byte-code: Wrong number of arguments:
#[(&optional tty terminal-type) "ÂÀÁ D#§" [tty terminal-type
make-device] 5 "Create a new device on TTY. TTY should be the name of a
tty device file (e.g. \"/dev/ttyp3\" under SunOS et al.), as returned by
the `tty' command. A value of nil means use the stdin and stdout as
passed to XEmacs from the shell. If TERMINAL-TYPE is non-nil, it should
be a string specifying the type of the terminal attached to the
specified tty. If it is nil, the terminal type will be inferred from
the TERM environment variable."], 3 error in process filter: Wrong
number of arguments: #[(&optional tty terminal-type) "ÂÀÁ D#"
[tty terminal-type make-device] 5 "Create a new device on TTY. TTY
should be the name of a tty device file (e.g. \"/dev/ttyp3\" under SunOS
et al.), as returned by the `tty' command. A value of nil means
use the stdin and stdout as passed to XEmacs from the shell.
If TERMINAL-TYPE is non-nil, it should be a string specifying the
type of the terminal attached to the specified tty. If it is nil,
the terminal type will be inferred from the TERM environment
variable."], 3
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Are there cures for these problems?
Johann
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Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
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