From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 16 12:38:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand.global.net.uk (sand.global.net.uk [195.147.248.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E821578B for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:38:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p56s12a07.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.236.87] helo=marder-1.) by sand.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11RhM0-0002qN-00; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:38:01 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id UAA01566; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:26:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:26:04 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't exit xemacs Message-ID: <19990916202604.C282@marder-1> References: <19990915230014.B796@marder-1> <19990916110208.E30655@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990916110208.E30655@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0930 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. > OK, I've deleted xemacs and installed emacs-20.3 which seems to be a bit easier to get to grips with (not so many bells and whistles). > > 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? > Used the package on the 3.1 CDs. Yep, definitely 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. > I kill -9'd it eventually and gave up. Let's see how I get on with plain emacs. > 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 -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message