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authorGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2002-08-27 11:35:45 +0000
committerGravatar David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk>2002-08-27 11:35:45 +0000
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@@ -6,15 +6,6 @@ The items below are known and will be fixed (I hope!) before 3.4
is released. Please don't send email about them (unless you have
a patch...)
-** X-Symbol probs with Isabelle
- -- latin1 chars may get saved in file [XE 21.1 only?]
- -- superscripts/subscripts not fully working [menu option ignored]
-
-** X-Symbol probs with Coq, LEGO
- -- X-Symbol 4.x not supported, don't try it or your Emacs will explode
-
-
-
* Known Bugs and Workarounds for Proof General.
Contact: mailto:bugs@proofgeneral.org
@@ -44,7 +35,8 @@ interrupt to the (e.g.) Isabelle process from another shell. If that
doesn't stop things, you can try 'kill -FPE <emacs-pid>'.
This problem can happen with looping rewrite rules in the Isabelle
simplifier, when tracing rewriting. It seems to be worse on
-certain architectures, and slower machines.
+certain architectures, and slower machines. Behaviour seems
+better on Emacs than XEmacs.
** Toolbar enablers unreliable on some platforms.
@@ -90,18 +82,11 @@ to edit a file as it is being read by the proof assistant!
* Problems with particular Emacs versions
-** Looping in Emacs 21.2
+** Buggy output fontification with Emacs 21.2 / X-Symbol 4.X
-Several (odd) circumstances cause this version of Emacs to loop.
-For example, (setq-default column-number-mode t) before starting
-Emacs, or moving the cursor around in the *coq* buffer.
-It seems likely that these are Emacs bugs, workaround unknown.
-Please contact us if you can help.
-
-** Buggy output fontification with Emacs 21.2 / X-Symbol
-
-Output colouration may spill into adjacent symbols when
-X-Symbol support is switched on.
+Output colouration may spill into adjacent symbols when X-Symbol
+support is switched on. X-Symbol 4.X isn't yet finished, and will
+only officially support Emacs from 21.4 onwards.
** Emacs menus: options not updated dynamically, positions erratic, etc.
@@ -173,8 +158,12 @@ recommended way of working) is to run XEmacs locally and only
the proof assistant on your fast compute server, by setting
proof-rsh-command.
+** Looping in Emacs 21.2
-
+Several (odd) circumstances cause this version of Emacs to loop,
+in particular, when moving the cursor into multi-byte characters.
+Workarounds have been added to avoid this: you may see junk
+characters in the shell buffer as a side effect.