Re: Releasability of the kFreeBSD ports

[Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>]

On Thu,  5 Aug 2010 12:30, abe@debian.org said:

> This is worse. It's even locally and I either never noticed that
> because I use kfreebsd remotely most time (despite having that screen
> on my desk) or it's an regression.
>
> Emacs 22 works fine though.

I had the same problem for a long time.  Now with Emacs 23.2.1 this
stupid hack helped me:

--- src/xterm.c~        2010-04-28 07:01:29.000000000 +0200
+++ src/xterm.c 2010-04-28 07:35:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -9310,7 +9310,7 @@ x_make_frame_visible (f)
           to be read.  We used to raise a real alarm, but it seems
           that the handler isn't always enabled here.  This is
           probably a bug.  */
-       if (input_polling_used ())
+       if (input_polling_used () || 1)
          {
            /* It could be confusing if a real alarm arrives while
               processing the fake one.  Turn it off and let the

Probably not how it should be but I am finally able to run Emacs 23 with
Gnus on my laptop without running into mule/UTF-8 problems in
~/.newsrc.eld.  And org-mode is also more recent.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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