From 370e51dea51396fca96a68b14a0daa29d66201b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Kangas Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:23:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Remove some obsolete items from PROBLEMS * etc/PROBLEMS: Remove some obsolete items. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 38 -------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 598a79f978..f68a183c5d 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -419,27 +419,6 @@ EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function "load" will search. If you observe strange problems, check for this variable in your environment. -*** Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error. - -The error message might be something like this: - - "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" - -This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a -built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch -for epop3 to fix it, but perhaps a newer version of epop3 corrects that. - -*** Buffers from 'with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode. - -Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause -problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's -documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem. - -*** The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in -Help mode due to setting 'temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using -'add-hook'. Using '(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook 'help-mode-finish)' -after loading Hyperbole should fix this. - ** Keyboard problems *** Unable to enter the M-| key on some German keyboards. @@ -575,13 +554,6 @@ For example, simply moving through a file that contains hundreds of thousands of characters per line is slow, and consumes a lot of CPU. This is a known limitation of Emacs with no solution at this time. -*** Emacs uses 100% of CPU time - -This was a known problem with some old versions of the Semantic package. -The solution was to upgrade Semantic to version 2.0pre4 (distributed -with CEDET 1.0pre4) or later. Note that Emacs includes Semantic since -23.2, and this issue does not apply to the included version. - *** Display artifacts on GUI frames on X-based systems. This is known to be caused by using double-buffering (which is enabled @@ -1952,11 +1924,6 @@ A few versions of the Linux kernel have timer bugs that break CPU profiling; see Bug#34235. To fix the problem, upgrade to one of the kernel versions 4.14.97, 4.19.19, or 4.20.6, or later. -*** GNU/Linux: Process output is corrupted. - -There is a bug in Linux kernel 2.6.10 PTYs that can cause emacs to -read corrupted process output. - *** GNU/Linux: Remote access to CVS with SSH causes file corruption. If you access a remote CVS repository via SSH, files may be corrupted @@ -2740,11 +2707,6 @@ library on these systems. The solution is to reconfigure Emacs while disabling all the features that require libgio: rsvg, dbus, gconf, and imagemagick. -*** Building Emacs for Cygwin can fail with GCC 3 - -As of Emacs 22.1, there have been stability problems with Cygwin -builds of Emacs using GCC 3. Cygwin users are advised to use GCC 4. - *** Building Emacs 23.3 and later will fail under Cygwin 1.5.19 This is a consequence of a change to src/dired.c on 2010-07-27. The -- 2.28.0