From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: A list of bugs Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:42:40 -0600 (MDT) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207280242.g6S2ger11391@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <001b01c234ec$47632000$72dd52c3@x874761> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027824200 24806 127.0.0.1 (28 Jul 2002 02:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ye1e-0006Rz-00 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 04:43:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ye20-00061q-00; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 22:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ye13-0005yI-00; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 22:42:41 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6S2goB22006; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:42:50 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g6S2ger11391; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:42:40 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: larsh@math.ku.dk In-Reply-To: <001b01c234ec$47632000$72dd52c3@x874761> (larsh@math.ku.dk) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2953 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2953 Calling expand-file-name with default-directory set to nil, such as in (let ((default-directory nil)) (expand-file-name "foo")) makes Emacs crash without a word. This has been fixed for the next release. Start Emacs (21.2 or 20.7) under MS Windows and try to close MS Windows. Then you get an error message saying that MS Windows cannot shut down Emacs. I suspect that Emacs does not handle the WM_QUERYENDSESSION (0x0011) Only a Windows developer could handle this. Would you like to implement it? Font lock in emacs-lisp-mode gets very confused when a multi line text string (such as a doc string) have a line starting with 'with' or '(' (no quotes). You should put a \ before the (; that is an Emacs convention. I am surprised to hear this about `with', though; can you send a precise self-contained test case for that? When running under MS Windows, the title bar of Emacs frames often flicker. I seems they are redrawn unnecessarily. This problem is introduced with Emacs 21, it is not there with Emacs 20. Can any Windows user figure out the cause of this bug? I have reported this bug before -- however at that time I suspected the error to be MS Windows specific. Now I have seen it on a Linux system as well. It's not a Linux system; it's the GNU system, with Linux as the kernel. (See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more explanation.) Would you please help us out by calling the system "GNU/Linux", and giving us equal mention? We need this help very much. When I scroll a window by holding down the the down-arrow button, the scrolling motion have anoying jumps now and then. What happes is, obviously, that the window gets recentered. This is normal behavior. That command is a cursor-motion command, not a scroll command. When you move point off the screen, it gets recentered. (setq scroll-conservatively 1000) Hmm, if you set scroll-conservatively in this way, it ought to scroll more smoothly. I did not see the window get recentered, but I did see the cursor sometimes appear on the bottom screen line. Would anyone like to try debugging that?