From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 18:32:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E4D14BFD for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:32:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA54779; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:02:08 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:02:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't exit xemacs Message-ID: <19990916110208.E30655@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990915230014.B796@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990915230014.B796@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:00:15PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 15 September 1999 at 23:00:15 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > Seeing as so many people reckon emacs is the best editor in the > world I decided to give it a try. I installed xemacs-20.4 from the > packages (figuring that an X front end would make learning easier). > Twice I've got myself in the situation where I can't exit from it!. Normal Emacs runs under X. > I select ``Exit Emacs'' from the File menu and all I get is the > message at the bottom of the window: > > Wrong type argument: buffer-live-p, # > > The only buffer open is ``Buffer List'' > > What the fsck have I done wrong! Used the wrong port? Used the mouse? > Mark (who has yet to be convinced that emacs is better than vi) I don't know what you've done. It seems that there could be a bug in xemacs if you haven't rid yourself uncleanly of some buffers. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message