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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.1-7
Severity: normal
The symptom is, visit a buffer with more lines than the frame will
hold and press PageDown - emacs loops and has to be killed. I've seen
this in buffers for text files, dired and info. It is usually
sporadic and I have not found it easy to produce a reliable test case,
I hope the following will serve.
The problem seems to involve the variable scroll-margin and emacs21.
I did not have this problem with scroll-margin in emacs20. It also seems to
involve the form of the text in the buffer, e.g. for a text file, not any old
text file will show the problem, so I have included text which shows the
problem reliably (for me).
How to reproduce the problem (probably):
1. Create a file '.emacs' containing the text given in 'Note 1' below.
2. Create a file 'danger70.txt' containing the text given in 'Note 2'
below.
3. At a bash prompt, give the command "emacs danger70.txt".
4. You are looking at the file 'danger70.txt' with point in the
top left hand corner.
5. Press PageDown. Point is on a blank line just below a line
containing the text 'your kernel.'.
6. Press PageDown again. Emacs becomes unresponsive and consumes 100%
CPU. There are no messages about errors.
On my system, emacs reports the PageDown key as follows:
<next> runs the command scroll-up
(scroll-up &optional ARG)
which is an interactive built-in function.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux blackbird 2.2.20 #1 SMP Mon Nov 5 23:13:53 CET 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii dpkg 1.9.20 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-5 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liblockfile1 1.03 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng2 1.0.12-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii xaw3dg 1.5-11 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.1.0-14 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
--- Note 1: text for .emacs
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
'(scroll-margin 8))
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
)
--- end of Note 1
--- Note 2: text for danger70.txt (copied from a kernel README)
Linux kernel release 2.4.xx
These are the release notes for Linux version 2.4. Read them carefully,
as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the
kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong.
WHAT IS LINUX?
Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with
assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net.
It aims towards POSIX compliance.
It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged
Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management and TCP/IP networking.
It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
accompanying COPYING file for more details.
ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
Linux was first developed for 386/486-based PCs. These days it also
runs on ARMs, DEC Alphas, SUN Sparcs, M68000 machines (like Atari and
Amiga), MIPS and PowerPC, and others.
DOCUMENTATION:
- There is a lot of documentation available both in electronic form on
the Internet and in books, both Linux-specific and pertaining to
general UNIX questions. I'd recommend looking into the documentation
subdirectories on any Linux FTP site for the LDP (Linux Documentation
Project) books. This README is not meant to be documentation on the
system: there are much better sources available.
- There are various README files in the Documentation/ subdirectory:
these typically contain kernel-specific installation notes for some
drivers for example. See ./Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what
is contained in each file. Please read the Changes file, as it
contains information about the problems, which may result by upgrading
your kernel.
- The Documentation/DocBook/ subdirectory contains several guides for
kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a
number of formats: PostScript (.ps), PDF, and HTML, among others.
After installation, "make psdocs", "make pdfdocs", or "make htmldocs"
will render the documentation in the requested format.
INSTALLING the kernel:
- If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a
directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and
unpack it:
gzip -cd linux-2.4.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf -
Replace "XX" with the version number of the latest kernel.
Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually
incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header
files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by
whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
- You can also upgrade between 2.4.xx releases by patching. Patches are
distributed in the traditional gzip and the new bzip2 format. To
install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the
directory in which you unpacked the kernel source and execute:
gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0
--- end of Note 2
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: emacs21
Version: 21.3-1
I'm trying to clean up the long list of old bugs in the emacs21 package.
On 2002-04-21 00:03 +0200, Nick wrote:
> Thank you. I downloaded 21.2.50.2 and I do not see the problem with that
> version.
In the light of this statement and since I could not reproduce the bug
in the current emacs21 package, I take the liberty to close this old
bug. Please reopen if you still experience the problem.
Sven
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