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From: weltyc@nysernic (Christopher A. Welty)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU-emacs 18.50 and X11R2
Message-ID: <619@nysernic>
Date: 17 Mar 88 18:50:49 GMT
References: <265@atari.dec.com>
Sender: nobody@nysernic
Reply-To: weltyc@nisc.nyser.net (Christopher A. Welty)
Organization: RPI Computer Science Dept.
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Keywords: X, X-windows, gnu

In article <265@atari.dec.com> reilly@atari.dec.com (Michael Reilly) writes:
>
>	1.  When emacs first starts up (I do not specifiy a file to be
>edited on the command line) it hangs before displaying the mode line.  The
>window is created but has nothing in it except the very bottom line which
>is a string put out by my .emacs file.  When I touch any key or click the
>mouse in the emacs window it continues normally.  I.e., it seems to be hung
>waiting for an event.  Has anyone else seen this?
>

	This used to happen before I got the patches from Rob French
(rfrench@athena.mit.edu) who is the clearinghouse for X11 and emacs
things.  I don't know about the color stuff, and I also couldn't get
xgbd to compile, but since emacs works with X11 I just bring up a gdb
window within emacs.....




Christopher Welty  ---  Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs
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