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- From: jsp@betz.biostr.washington.edu (Jeff Prothero)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
- Subject: tags-search infelicity
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:23:43 -0500
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Lines: 60
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <9301240321.AA19086@betz.biostr.washington.edu>
-
- jsp@betz.biost.washington.edu:
-
- Not a bug, but perhaps nonoptimal:
-
- There appears to be no way to abort a tags-search once started,short
- perhaps of kill -9. In particular, ^G appears to have no effect.
-
- rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu:
-
- As far as I know, C-g does abort tags-search.
- What version are you using, and what machine?
- Every bug report needs to state those things.
-
- jsp@betz.biost.washington.edu:
-
- DAMN. My apologies. Machine is RS/6K running AIX 3.2 (judging from
- /usr/lpp/bos/README -- I forget IBM's official way to list version#),
- emacs is 18.58 installed by myself (meaning possibly bozoed), my notes
- on the installation being:
-
- -------config.h-----
- #include "s-aix3-2.h"
- #include "m-ibmrs6000.h"
-
- #define HAVE_X_WINDOWS 1
- #define HAVE_X_MENU 1
-
- ----------lisp/site-init.el----
- ; If the '(cdr ...)' is left off,
- ; we get a spurious "../lisp" we don't want:
- (setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/emacs/lisp/local" (cdr load-path)))
- ----------build/install command----
- as jsp:
- make all
- as root:
- make install.aix
-
- Following up on rms's comment
-
- "As far as I know, C-g does abort tags-search."
-
- it appears that in fact ^G works just fine in a normal AIXWindow,
- which is what I get if I telnet to the machine, and fails only when
- emacs is running in an X window. For example, if I log in on the
- console and 'emacs', I get an X window emacs that won't obey ^G. If,
- from exactly the same console window, I instead telnet to the same
- account and run emacs (implies same version of emacs, same
- initialization files, same files operated on), I get an emacs that
- works just fine.
-
- This is, therefore, likely a combination of my and AIXWindows
- stupidity: there's something generally funny about my install of
- emacs here when it comes to X, the mouse-sensitive stuff has never
- worked in this install -- I just get a beep -- which is almost
- certainly some idiocy on my part because I've seen emacs installs
- running just fine on same version of AIX/AIXWindows.
-
- Sorry to waste your time :(.
-
-
-