GNU Emacs, Xdefaults, and version 3.3.1 of Irix

[Scott Henry]

In article <D7161ABF289F00011B at dino.squibb.com> BRUC at DINO.SQUIBB.COM ("Bob Bruccoleri  683-6165", 609) writes:

bruc> Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there any ways of debugging
bruc> XGetDefault to see why it's failing? Thanks.

The solution I use is to punt: I'm using epoch3.2, which is a version of
GNU Emacs v18.55 patched to support X11 a lot better (and exclusively, so
keep a copy of emacs around for those dial-up sessions...). As best I can
tell, except for the lack of terminfo support, it is a strict superset of
v18.55. I believe that it is available by anonymous ftp from cs.uiuc.edu.
It compiles out-of-the-box on Irix 3.3.1. Make sure that patch1 gets
installed, as it fixes some important bugs.

After doing some investigation, here is what I think happened to X
resources in emacs: The emacs X support was originally written for X10,
which was later hacked up to support X11R1. As X11 evolved, there have
been some compatibility issues from one release to the next, and I
strongly suspect that it was X11R3 (supplied with Irix 3.2.*) -> X11R4
(Irix 3.3.*) xlib changes that did in emacs X resources support. I suspect
that linking with the 3.2 xlib might fix the problem (though that's one
thing I didn't try).


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