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From: jones@ils.nwu.edu (Eric Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Problem with gnu emacs.
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Date: 9 Dec 90 23:37:35 GMT
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Hi, I have been running Edgar Roeder's port of gnu emacs V18.55 to the ST.  
Overall I'm very happy with it,  but I have encountered a couple of
annoying problems.  This message is to ask if anyone has found patches or 
work arounds. 

1. Filename completion causes the disk to thrash.  The disk seems to do at 
least one, (sometimes two), seeks for each file in the directory in which
the filename is being completed.  With my sluggish supra drive, filename
completion can cause the system to hang for 30 seconds or more.

2. Emacs sometimes crashes when it receives two quit signals (^G) in 
succession.  This usually happens in the minibuffer, but beyond that I
haven't been able to discover any general pattern.  Actually, it's possible
that emacs is not actually crashing.  What usually happens is that I get 
thrown into gulam with some kind of weird error message, and then am unable
to get back to emacs: ^Z causes the system to hang.

I have a Mega 2 ST and run emacs from gulam; gulam is in my auto folder.

One more question: is there any way to take advantage of the blitter chip and
speed up screen updates when running emacs?

Thanks, 

       Eric Jones (jones@ils.nwu.edu).