[14298] in Athena Bugs
Re: emacs19 on Solaris Sun 7.7V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 9 18:52:04 1996
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:52:02 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14290] in Athena Bugs"
> 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?).
This turns out to be a bug in the hilit19 distributed with emacs
19.30. It happens if you do:
(setq scroll-step 1)
(require 'hilit19)
and then enter info mode with ^H I. I do not know what the cause of
the problem is; it's somewhat difficult to debug as emacs problems go.
I have a beta version of hilit19 (unlikely to undergo further
development, since the author now only uses XEmacs) which solves this
and other problems, and is reportedly faster. This seems to be a case
where the "beta" version works noticeably better than the "release"
version, and where there's unlikely to be another "release." I'm
planning to include this version on the packs when we do the actual
release; I'll get it out into the beta packs in not too long.
