[14290] in Athena Bugs
emacs19 on Solaris Sun 7.7V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David K Krikorian)
Sun Apr 7 05:13:43 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 05:13:39 -0400
From: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
I'm having problems with emacs19 (/usr/athena/bin/emacs19) in the new
release. The ones I have taken the time to figure out are listed
here:
A different temporary file is used for incoming mail. In emacs 18, we
had "Mail/po:dkk~". The emacs in the emacs19 locker (18.25.92.1) uses
"Mail/po:dkk+". The emacs19 on the packs (19.30.1) uses
"Mail/.newmail-po:dkk". This would have been no problem if I had
found documentation of the change, so I suggest you document it in the
release notes.
The application of the variable user-mail-address has changed. I set
it to "David Krikorian <dkk@mit.edu>" in my dot files. That string
was then used for the "From:" line of my outgoing email. With the
emacs 19.30.1 in the release (but not in the emacs 19.29.1 I got with
Slackware, or in any earlier version of emacs I've used) the from line
ended up like this:
From: David K Krikorian <David Krikorian dkk<@mit.edu>
instead of this:
From: David Krikorian dkk<@mit.edu>
The extra '<' caused lots of mail bounces. The only solution I know
of is to set user-mail-address conditionally, depending on the emacs
version. I found no mention of the change in the emacs news file, and
know of no other source of documentation about the emacs version
differences in this release.
Neither of these would have been a problem if this had been an actual
public release with complete release notes. Only the second one is at
all likely to affect regular users.
When I'm back in Massachusetts, I'll demonstrate how I can completely
hang the new emacs19 with only a few keystrokes (due to conflicts with
my emacs startup files?).
--
David Krikorian, dkk@mit.edu, KA1NAP; MIT/IS/Service/ASO, APO, LSC, SIPB
