From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: FCC Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why does .emacs.desktop fail? Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:22:43 +0200 Organization: UPC Message-ID: References: <1121291999.117201.135360@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121344587 25652 80.91.229.2 (14 Jul 2005 12:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 14 14:36:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt2ws-000792-2J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:36:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dt2yb-00073E-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:38:05 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.rediris.es!news.cesca.es!news.upc.es!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: adca05.upc.es Original-X-Trace: defalla.upc.es 1121343757 2860 147.83.51.18 (14 Jul 2005 12:22:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmngr@upc.es Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:22:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1121291999.117201.135360@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132442 comp.emacs:89583 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27952 rgb articulated on 07/14/05 00:02: >>On both systems I use GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1. > > > If this is true then you are using a highly unstable version to which > many months of updates have since been applied. You might first try > using the latest CVS which reports a version number of 22.0.50.1. > Your problem may still exist but upgrading would be a very big step > to try first. > No luck. I have installed GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-pc-Linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-07-12 on malambruno, modified by Debian and the behavior described in the original post persists. Thanks, -- FCC. === The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends. -Chinese saying.