Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/10/24/02:39:07
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:46:54 +0800, Wynfield Henman <wynfield AT gmail DOT com>
wrote:
> William Xue,
> do you get this problem when you open up a new cpp file? e.g.
>
> $ emacs new-file.cpp
Yes, the message is in *Messages* buffer.
---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
(emacs test.cpp)
Loading disp-table...done
Loading encoded-kb...done
Loading autorevert...done
Loading completion...done
Loading edmacro...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
(New file)
Loading cc-mode...done
File mode specification error: (void-function x-popup-menu)
Loading jit-lock...done
---8<--------------------------------------------->8---
>
> Your are right you don't need X-windows. Emacs will detect if its in
> an X-win or not and choose the console interface if not.
>
> Maybe try to:
> (1) reinstall it
I tried. The same problem.
> (2) uninstall and try the 21.12.13 or previous version
Yes, it covered the issue. But some functions are missing in those
versions.
Like, next-buffer.
> (3) try building it from scratch. The autoconfig
> and other tools will configure it for your system. etc...
> configure using the " --without-x" if you don't want
> it to handle x-windows at all..
>
> (4) if you were going to do this (build from source) you might as
> well try the latest emacs
>
I have downloaded the sourcecodes from cvs(both emacs22 and
emacs-unicode-2),
but the build effort was failed. I used following steps:
./configure
make bootstrap
> Darel Henman
>
> P.S. Since I am using GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1, built from cvs, I can't
> duplicate your environment. Sorry.
>
>
>
> ----------------------------
>
>> > william xue wrote:
>> >
>> >> It's annoying. Anybody could tell me how to workaround it?
>> >
>> > Read the manual... hint: emacs -nw <filename>
>> >
>>
>> at least -nw was not useful.
>>
>> About the manual, C-h f could not find the x-popup-menu.
>>
>> Could you show me something in detail?
>>
>> >> P.S.: I did not install any X libs. The console satisfied me.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> On 10/19/06, William Xue <william DOT xue AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> I installed the cygwin today and the emacs' version is 21.3.50.1.
>> >>>
>> >>> when I open cpp files, there is an error:
>> >>>
>> >>> File mode specification error: (void-function x-popup-menu)
>> >>>
>> >>> are there something I missed? How can I fix this issue?
>>>
>> --
>> Sincerely yours,
>> William
>
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William
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