[12543] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7I: Emacs on the Sun SparcClassic, with specified X resources for it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (0000-Admin(0000))
Wed Sep 7 21:22:11 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 21:22:05 EDT
From: 0000-Admin(0000) <root@MIT.EDU>
System name: copilot
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7I
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Change the colors of an Emacs window (see below)
What's wrong:
Emacs died with a "Fatal error (6)" and coredumped (see below)
What should have happened:
Anything but that (see below)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
A user first reported this in OLC.
If you try to modify any color in Emacs, using the commands:
Meta-x x-set-foreground-color
Meta-x x-set-background-color
Meta-x x-set-cursor-color
Meta-x x-set-mouse-color
and the like, you'll generate a "Fatal error (6)", if
and *only if* you have the corresponding X resource set
for Emacs. This can be considered to be bad.
This problem does _not_ occur if you do not have the
corresponding X resource set.
For example, using the following X resources on a vanilla
account:
Emacs*foreground: green
Emacs*background: orange
Emacs*cursorcolor: brown
and then setting any of the above once emacs comes up,
will generate an error. Setting the mouse color will
work, though.
