X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/6e34ec2973c0a070180512e36cd9431742f19602..b5cb46524294bcfd29005bf3b758dcd932f6ffae:/etc/PROBLEMS diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 185796d514..9ddc899fa9 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -352,12 +352,15 @@ developers. * Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.2. Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu -is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menu items is not +is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or pop-up menu interaction. +Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text +for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows. + There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame @@ -792,7 +795,7 @@ files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later, when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and -its loaded very early in the startup procedure.) +it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.) Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc file could fail to load if it is compressed. @@ -1291,7 +1294,12 @@ combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt. -* Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect +* Emacs crashes when using the Exceed 6.0 X server + +If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was +reported to prevent the crashes. + +* Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective