[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS

[Eli Zaretskii]

Index: emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
diff -c emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.100 emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.101
*** emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.100    Fri Dec 21 07:47:12 2001
--- emacs/etc/PROBLEMS  Fri Jan  4 05:15:04 2002
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  a good way of implementing it with widgets).  If Emacs is configured
  --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
  
+ * Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'.
+ 
+ This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the
+ terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo.
+ If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your
+ version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses
+ and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this.
+ 
+ All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the
+ problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses
+ terminfo when built.
+ 
  * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
  
  Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal