No answere here. All I see is quoted text from my original message. Try again? On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:20:11AM -0400, Jeremy Allard wrote:

Le 9 avril 2012 00:10, Steve Holmes a écrit :

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I don't know what happened lately, but I notice that emacs totally locks up on me now. It was working find yesterday before I did a major pacman -Syu this morning. Even if I move my .emacs out of the way and start up emacs, I get the welcome screen but then no cursor key movement. The only way I can get emacs to close is to kill it from another console. Any ideas?

Anyone else experiencing trouble with emacs 23.4?

Emacs 23.4 over here and no problem for me. :/

No Jude, it's worse than that.I have no keyboard control at all after emacs starts. Actually, it works OK while in gnome so I can use it that way for now. It relates to when -nw is used although I don't explicitly specify it when I run it from the console. So speakup isn't the issue here at all. Just amazes me that the GNU devs would close the emacs-23 branch and then release 23.4 some time later without the patch. On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 09:48:35PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:

Steve,

if you're using speakup, is your cursor parked?

On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Steve Holmes wrote:

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No answere here. All I see is quoted text from my original message. Try again?

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:20:11AM -0400, Jeremy Allard wrote:

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Le 9 avril 2012 00:10, Steve Holmes a ?crit :

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I don't know what happened lately, but I notice that emacs totally locks up on me now. It was working find yesterday before I did a major pacman -Syu this morning. Even if I move my .emacs out of the way and start up emacs, I get the welcome screen but then no cursor key movement. The only way I can get emacs to close is to kill it from another console. Any ideas?

Anyone else experiencing trouble with emacs 23.4?

Emacs 23.4 over here and no problem for me. :/

---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:12:12PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: I switched to emacs-nox from community which works fine. I may even

keep using it as it obviously has significantly less dependencies than emacs compiled with X support.

Well, it seems that it is fixed now. I see we have emacs-23.4-2 so I wonder if our devs patched or something. All good from my vantage point.

Am 14.04.2012 17:03, schrieb Jeremiah Dodds:

Steve Holmes writes:

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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:12:12PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: I switched to emacs-nox from community which works fine. I may even

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keep using it as it obviously has significantly less dependencies than emacs compiled with X support.

Well, it seems that it is fixed now. I see we have emacs-23.4-2 so I wonder if our devs patched or something. All good from my vantage point.

FWIW, I build emacs from trunk pretty regularly, and it's really stable. I've had to look to the lists for a build faliure once over the last two years, and it was fixed the next day anyhow.

I have a script in ~/bin with something like:

cd $HOME/workspace/emacs bzr pull (make || make bootstrap&& make)&& sudo make install

in it. I occasionally need to recompile due to system updates.

Unless you're really tied to 23.4, I recommend giving it a shot -- there's a lot of improvements, and I actually run into *fewer* problems with things getting broken then when I run emacs from distro packages.

Why not using a PKGBUILD from AUR to do so? We have a fantastic package manager, we should use it. How do you deinstall such a self built emacs? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33337 emacs-bzr, pulls from trunk https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53902 emacs-xwidget-bzr, pulls from xwidget-branch. Best Regards

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 07:41:07PM +0200, Stefan Husmann wrote:

Am 14.04.2012 17:03, schrieb Jeremiah Dodds:

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Well, it seems that it is fixed now. I see we have emacs-23.4-2 so I wonder if our devs patched or something. All good from my vantage point.

Why not using a PKGBUILD from AUR to do so? We have a fantastic package manager, we should use it. How do you deinstall such a self built emacs?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33337 emacs-bzr, pulls from trunk

Additionally, you get emacs' awesome package manager with emacs-bzr (which is emacs-24.*): M-x list-packages Florian

On 04/13/2012 10:31 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:12:12PM +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: I switched to emacs-nox from community which works fine. I may even

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keep using it as it obviously has significantly less dependencies than emacs compiled with X support.

Well, it seems that it is fixed now. I see we have emacs-23.4-2 so I wonder if our devs patched or something. All good from my vantage point.

Most likely what occurred is the first emacs build based on gcc47 was broken. gcc47 dramatically changed what the compiler will accept as well as what headers are included by default (primarily unistd.h). Unfortunately, the first gcc47 release did not correctly catch all instances where an include was required or where old code is no longer accepted -- allowing code to build, but with runtime problems. Generally the developers can fix these issues relatively quickly. With a standard package like emacs that is so widely used, generally everything is patched and fixed within a few days. I suspect (but don't know for certain) that is what happened with emacs... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.