I've had the same problem. If you give a filename to emacs (e.g. emacs foo.txt) you won't have any problems, because there's no splash screen. I'll cc the maintainer as well.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Wiener, Matthew wrote: > Hi. I just installed emacs21 (version 21.2.1). I'm running the latest > versions of both fink components (0.9.11 and 0.4.0.cvs). > > If I wait a while after starting up emacs (30 seconds to a minute), it > switches from the colorful splash screen to the scratch buffer, and > everything works fine. However, if I try to type anything or click in the > window before the splash screen vanishes, I get the following in the > minibuffer: > > Invalid function: (macro . #[(newelt listname) " <garbage in here>" > [listname newelt setq cons] 5 1364953]) > > The <garbage in here> appears to be some control characters -- I'm having > trouble pasting them. > If I then wait 15 or 30 seconds without doing anything, I can click in the > window and everything works as usual. However, the clock seems to be reset > if I try to click during the 15 or 30 seconds. I looked for a log, but > can't find anything. (The error message from the minibuffer is repeated in > the "Messages" buffer.) > > I had no such problems with emacs 20.7, which 21.2.1 replaced. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Matthew Wiener > Applied Computer Science and Mathematics Department > Merck Research Labs > Rahway, NJ 07065-0900 > 732-594-5303 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of >Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA) that may be confidential, >proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use >of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended >recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by >e-mail and then delete it. > > ============================================================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
