On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Steven P. Ulrick <meow8282@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, Everyone > For quite a while now, Emacs has ceased being useable on our system. For > example, if I run "emacs .bashrc" in a terminal, Emacs starts up as > expected, but the file cannot be edited. I can use the mouse to select text > in the portion of the file that is actually displayed in the terminal, but I > cannot move the cursor(?) or delete/add/change any text. > I have the following alias in ~/.bashrc that has worked perfectly for me for > quite a while: > alias emacs="unset DISPLAY && emacs" > > If I just run "/usr/bin/emacs" from a terminal the graphical version of > Emacs opens the file file, and I can edit it as I wish. I do NOT have > xemacs installed on this system. > > So, the way this is working for me now, if I want to use Emacs in a > non-graphical console session, I am out of luck. It does not make any > difference what user I am logged in as, the problem is the same. Also, here > is the permissions on the file that I used earlier as my example: > -rw-r--r-- 1 steve steve 6.9K May 23 04:50 .bashrc > > So, permissions do not seem to be an issue. > > I am running Fedora 16, fully updated. "yum list | grep -i emacs" shows the > following RPM's as being installed: > > emacs.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates > emacs-common.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates > emacs-filesystem.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates > emacs-git.noarch 1.7.7.6-1.fc16 @updates > emacs-nox.x86_64 1:23.3-9.fc16 @updates > xemacs-filesystem.noarch 21.5.31-2.fc16 @fedora > > Also, I have not been able to find this issue on Google or at > bugzilla.redhat.com. Almost forgot, when I start emacs, "ps aux | grep -i emacs" looks like this: steve@localhost ~$ ps aux | grep -i emacs steve 6607 101 0.1 260220 13468 pts/2 R+ 05:16 0:39 emacs .bashrc the first core of my quad core processor is maxed out, and if I "kill 6607" that core immediately goes back to normal... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
