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- From: dgilbert@aeshq.uucp (David Gilbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: GNU-emacs-18.58-Amiga-1.25 memory & lock woes
- Summary: There are two ways...
- Keywords: amiga misc applications emacs problems fixes
- Message-ID: <DGILBERT.92Aug19144340@aeshq.uucp>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:43:40 GMT
- References: <64129@cup.portal.com>
- Sender: dgilbert@aeshq.UUCP
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Organization: Environment Canada --- Atmostpheric Environment Service
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- In-reply-to: plav@cup.portal.com's message of 16 Aug 92 19:27:44 GMT
-
- >>>>> On 16 Aug 92 19:27:44 GMT, plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky) said:
-
- Rick> With all the talk about GNU-emacs that was taking place in
- Rick> c.s.a.programmer, and since Mike has indicated he's dropping
- Rick> support for mg3beta4, I figured that I owed it to myself to
- Rick> check out GNU-emacs for myself. After poking about a bit it
- Rick> seemed to me that David Gay's amiga version 1.25 was the latest
- Rick> so I FTPed a copy of emacs-18.58-Amiga-1.25-bin.lha...
-
- To my mind, you've got the right one. This is what Ihave.
-
- Rick> First reaction: Nice! Performs reasonably well even on my
- Rick> anemic 68000-based B2000. I could live with this even though
- Rick> it's kinda large...
-
- EMACS == Eventually Mallocs All Computer Store!... but seriously,
-
- Rick> But I noticed rather quickly that this port suffers from a
- Rick> couple of problems. First, each invocation appears to eat 64
- Rick> bytes of memory. And when emacs is shut down, it leaves an
- Rick> outstanding lock on gnuemacs:.
-
- Probably related. What's the size of the lock structure?
- Anyways, there's two ways of going about this. One, as you mention,
- is to ignore it, and use emacs once per session... or suffer the 64
- byte loss. The other is to get the source for the port, and fix it.
- I don't have Lattice (I have manx), so I think I'm out of luck for
- recompiling it without a lot of work. The Amiga specific stuff is in
- only a few modules, so it should be easy to fix for someoen.
-
- Rick> Anybody else noticed this? What do you do about it? (Er, besides
- Rick> simply starting emacs once per session :-) Perhaps David's released
- Rick> a patch?
-
- Actually, I start Emacs roughly once per session, but then I have
- 8 meg of 32bit ram. (Via the VXL30 && VXL*32.) It is GNU stofware,
- afterall, though... so anyone can fix it ;).
-
- Dave.
-
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