Re: Viminfo for emacs

[Perry Smith]

> On Apr 10, 2020, at 6:43 PM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/10/20 1:42 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
>> On Apr 10, 2020, at 2:35 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <oitofelix@gnu.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 4/8/20 5:37 PM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
>>>>> Hi Tim,
>>>>> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
>>>>>> I have recently put together a barebones terminal mode emacs with evil
>>>>>> as part of a custom config that starts up at least as fast as vim.
>>>>> If eventually your Emacs config becomes heavy, the way to go is running
>>>>> Emacs as a server once at system start-up and then use emacsclient
>>>>> thereafter.  See (info "(emacs) Emacs Server").
>>>> Thanks Bruno. I had thought of that, but can emacs/emacsclient be run
>>>> as a terminal app?
>>> Sure.  In fact you can have any number of emacsclient instances
>>> (text-based and graphical) simultaneously connected to the same emacs
>>> server: sharing buffers, settings and functionality.
>> On Linux, the default install for emacs uses GTK+.  GTK+ has a bug,
>> which is documented in the emacs code somewhere, that you can not
>> close the X windows connection.  The fix is to use emacs built with
>> Lucid.
>> 
>> So… if you go the route of emacs server but you discover that
>> sometimes you emacs server dies for no reason, try switching to the
>> Lucid version.
>> 
>> This bites, in particular when you export DISPLAY to another X server
>> that is no local.
> 
> That's a darn good tip. A preliminary google turns out issues with lucid 
> compiles and fontification with version ~24
> 
> Do you think that is still an issue with 26.3?

Its not an emacs bug actually but a GTK+ bug.  It bit me June 2019 (give or 
take)
and I remember trying the latest / greatest emacs at that time (which was not
the standard package on Ubuntu at the time).

Shamefully… I vaguely remember tracking this down before :-(  The bug is
many years old.

I no longer am using that particular set up.

I would suggest use the standard emacs and see if you get hit by the bug
and if you do, try Lucid.  Perhaps others can chime in about the fortification
issues you mention.