Re: recent experiences with mtty-emacs
Károly Lőrentey <lorentey <at> elte.hu>
2005-11-21 11:00:24 GMT
Joakim Verona <joakim <at> verona.se> writes:
> I'd just like to share my recent experiences with mtty-emacs.
>
> - I tried checking out mtty emacs with tla on an amd64 running fc4.
> tla coredumped during the process.
Nice. I suggest you report this bug, and meanwhile try to replace tla
with Bazaar version 1.0. (The two are mostly compatible. I sometimes
use baz myself, and I am planning to switch over at some point. I
don't follow tla/baz/bzr development much.)
> therefore I checked out a cvs emacs, and applied the latest patch from
> the mtty-emacs page instead.
>
> - when running the shiny new mtty emacs, the "customize" part of my
> .emacs vanished. I dont know why, and I dont know if mtty emacs was
> responsible. I managed to restore the customize part, and it hasnt
> vanished since.
I don't recall any multi-tty changes to the customization code, so
this was likely caused by some bug in the trunk.
> - briefly, swedish utf8 characters didnt get entered in a console, but
> did get entered in the same mtty emacs session in an x frame. I
> wasnt able to reproduce this after restart of emacs.
Well, it could be that Emacs failed to interpret your locale settings,
or the terminal device was in a bad state. Hard to say. Did you try
to explicitly set up an input coding system with `C-x RET k'?
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