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23.1; buffer pull-down menu not complete

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From: John Telting <jht <at> not.iac.es>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; buffer pull-down menu not complete
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:48:54 +0000

++++
  Report:

  when loading files into emacs using the cntr-x cntr-f keys,
  the loaded file is not added to the "Buffers" pull-down menu
  anylonger. This used to be the case in older versions of
  emacs, and was a nice feature. 

  My current Emacs is version 23.1.1, on Ubuntu 8.04.
  Only the buffers given at the command line at startup are present
  in the pull-down menu, together with the Scratch and Messages
  buffers.

  John Telting (jht <at> not.iac.es)
++++


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
 of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <emacs-known-problems> <next> 
C-s b u f f e r C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s 
C-s C-s C-s C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <buffer> C-a <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <buffer> C-@ <help-echo> 
C-x C-f 1 0 1 <backspace> <tab> 1 <tab> <return> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> C-x b C-g <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar> 
<new-file> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <about-emacs> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
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<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug
-report>

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Message #8 received at 5353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: John Telting <jht <at> not.iac.es>
Cc: 5353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1; buffer pull-down menu not complete
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:09:24 -0500

  > when loading files into emacs using the cntr-x cntr-f keys,
  > the loaded file is not added to the "Buffers" pull-down menu
  > anylonger. This used to be the case in older versions of
  > emacs, and was a nice feature.

  > My current Emacs is version 23.1.1, on Ubuntu 8.04.
  > Only the buffers given at the command line at startup are present
  > in the pull-down menu, together with the Scratch and Messages
  > buffers.

I can't reproduce this.  Does it happen if you start Emacs with
`emacs -Q' to disable all customizations?

Message #11 received at 5353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: John Telting <jht <at> not.iac.es>
Cc: 5353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5353: 23.1; buffer pull-down menu not complete
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:45:07 -0500

John Telting wrote:

>   My current Emacs is version 23.1.1, on Ubuntu 8.04.
>   Only the buffers given at the command line at startup are present
>   in the pull-down menu, together with the Scratch and Messages buffers.

This sounds like

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4122

which has been reported to Emacs, Debian, and Ubuntu multiple times.

Does the problem go away if you start Emacs with:

GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacs

or if you update to the latest Debian version, 23.1+1-5, from Nov 2009?

> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
>  of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian

Message #14 received at 5353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Telting <jht <at> not.iac.es>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Ricardo Cardenes <rcardenes <at> not.iac.es>, 5353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5353: 23.1; buffer pull-down menu not complete
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:56:02 +0000 (WET)

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Glenn Morris wrote:

> John Telting wrote:
> 
> >   My current Emacs is version 23.1.1, on Ubuntu 8.04.
> >   Only the buffers given at the command line at startup are present
> >   in the pull-down menu, together with the Scratch and Messages buffers.
> 
> This sounds like
> 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4122
> 
> which has been reported to Emacs, Debian, and Ubuntu multiple times.
> 
> Does the problem go away if you start Emacs with:
> 
> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacs

yes

> or if you update to the latest Debian version, 23.1+1-5, from Nov 2009?

and yes

> > In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
> >  of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian


thanks for your help,
John Telting

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