more emacs problems ...

[Neal Becker]

Per Bothner wrote:

> As mentioned before, the installed /usr/bin/emacs (Rawhide)
> has excruciatingly slow redisplay.  That is still the case.
> 
> So I've been using emacs-23.0.91.  This worked fine until a
> few days ago, but now that won't even start up - I get the
> error:
> Invalid regexp: "Unmatched ( or \\("
> 
> No idea where there is coming from.
> 
> Fine.  I'll try emacs-23.0.92 or emacs from cvs.
> In both case, 'make' hangs:
> 
> cd ../lisp; make -w update-subdirs
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bothner/Emacs/emacs-23.0.92/lisp'
> wd=/home/bothner/Emacs/emacs-23.0.92/lisp; subdirs=`(cd $wd; find .
> -type d -print)`; for file in $subdirs; do case $file in */Old | */RCS |
> */CVS | */CVS/* | */.* | */.*/* | */=* ) ;; *) wins="$wins $wd/$file" ;;
> esac; done; \
> for file in $wins; do \
> /home/bothner/Emacs/emacs-23.0.92/lisp/../update-subdirs $file; \
> done;
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bothner/Emacs/emacs-23.0.92/lisp'
> `/bin/pwd`/temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
> Loading loadup.el (source)...
> 
> And then it just sits there.  For hours.
> 
> So I'm basically reduced to emacs -nw - but I do miss being able to use
> the mouse.
> 
> Help ...

FWIW, I've had no problem running 23.0.91 and 23.0.92 on f10.  I'll send you 
my spec file if you like.