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From: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: emacs 18.55 on Apollo SR10.2.p
Keywords: emacs, apollo
Message-ID: <1990Aug16.072024@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: 16 Aug 90 05:20:24 GMT
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Reply-To: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid)
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(Why do I always have to have to the latest releases?)  
We had a Version of emacs 18.54 and the patches of Leonard N. Zubkoff 
for 18.54. This worked very well, though the pad in which emacs was 
run often crashed when leaving emacs.

Yesterday I read about a newer Version of Zubkoffs extensions for emacs 
18.55 (supporting X in a better way) and the first thing I did was to get 
it (from labrea.stanford.edu). I did the following:
   1. untar emacs-18.55
   2. untar apollo-emacs.tar in the dist-18.55 directory
   3. build-apollo-emacs

Of course I ran into problems when trying to compile it:
   1. There seem to be several lines duplicated at the end of the file
      src/fileio.c, ending with a '}' and causing the compiler (cc 6.7)
      to complain. Ok, that seems to be no problem, just put these 
      duplicated lines in a comment.
   2. Next, when temacs is trying to dump, it stops when loading 
      cl-indent.el because it found a ')' which it didn't like.
      As we don't have much LISP-users here I just went to site-load.el
      and put that '(load "cl-indent")' in a comment. Now temacs dumped.
   3. The worst. When I installed emacs it seemed to work ok, especially
      with X, but when I tried to use it in an Apollo-Pad, all those
      nice bindings to the Apollo key-pad had gone !
      For example: pressing the cursor-down key produces 'Failing
      I-search: HQ'.

Does anybody have any ideas what I'm doing wrong ?

Thanks in advance !



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