Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 400791
Failure to open files in new frames
Last modified: 2009-01-09 00:21:21 EST
Description of problem: New frames are unusable. I have had many problems with them but I hope the "Steps to Reproduce" will demonstrate just one specific behaviour. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xemacs-common-21.5.28-5.fc8 xemacs-packages-base-20070427-1.fc8 xemacs-packages-extra-20070427-1.fc8 xemacs-21.5.28-5.fc8 How reproducible: Almost always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start XEmacs, with the distribution init.el, using Applications->Programming->XEmacs Text Editor 2. C-x C-f Mini Buffer: Find File: ~/ RET Home directory, /home/someuser, is displayed in the buffer someuser. M-x find-file-at-point RET Mini Buffer: Find file or URL: ~/somefile RET File is displayed in a buffer. Buffers->someuser Home directory, /home/someuser, is displayed. File->New Frame New frame appears displaying home directory. Move mouse to new frame. M-x find-file-at-point RET Mini Buffer: Find file or URL: ~/somefile RET Mini Buffer: Buffer is read-only:#<buffer "someuser"> 3. Actual results: The mini buffer displays the "Buffer is read-only" error and subsequent behaviour of the editor is unpredictable. Expected results: The file, somefile, should be displayed in a buffer in the new frame. Additional info: Subsequent operations sometimes elicit the response Minibuffer: dired-subdir-alist seems to be mangled xemacs -vanilla seems not to have this problem. problem is not present in F7 XEmacs Beta Version version 21.5.28 of May 2007
By "the distribution init.el", do you mean /etc/skel/.xemacs/init.el copied as-is to ~/.xemacs/init.el? Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the behaviour you see, the test case works for me as expected on x86_64 F8 with out of the box configs. If xemacs -vanilla doesn't have the problem, it must be something in the init files. Could you check if it's something in your ~/.xemacs/init.el, or ~/.xemacs/custom.el (just move them somewhere out of the way temporarily while testing things)? Does "rpm -V xemacs xemacs-common xemacs-packages-base xemacs-packages-extra" output anything?
1) Yes. Initially, I had the problem with my own ~/.xemacs/init.el file so I reinstated the original, which does nothing, and there was no difference. I have also tried with:- System->Preferences->Look and Feel->Windows Select windows when the mouse moves over them checked and unchecked without success as I still have the problem reported in Bugzilla Bug 244190. 2) xemacs -vanilla also omits a few other things at startup, if I recall. I have also tried without a ~/.xemacs/custom.el without success. 3)"rpm -V xemacs xemacs-common xemacs-packages-base xemacs-packages-extra" reports nothing. I get the same behaviour if I open a new frame by clicking the "Info" button and then try to open a file by hitting return with the cursor on a filename in the home directory buffer in the original frame. In fact I get into a real mess if I do that and have to kill the editor.
I can't reproduce the problem with the Info button recipe either. FWIW, I run KDE. Does the problem occur also with xemacs -q?
Curiouser and curiouser... xemacs -q seems to work fine, and that just omits the init file. Yes, it may well be a Gnome specific issue.
I tried xemacs -q again but hit the "Load init files" button. The problem then returns. Tomorrow, I will try commenting out the lines in the init file and reinstating them one at a time to see if I can identify which line is causing the problem.
This, I do not understand. With the distribution init file, invoking xemacs from the Applications menu has the problem, but, invoking from the command line as xemacs -q and then hitting "Load init files", it works fine.
I was too hasty. Invoking from the command line as xemacs -q and then hitting "Load init files" with the distribution init file does eventually fail after opening files in both frames. The first open in a new frame as per "Steps to reproduce" does work but then, if I go back to the original frame and open a file by hitting return with the cursor on a filename, I get "dired-subdir-alist seems to be mangled" and I have to kill the editor.
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