bug#31880: 26.1; VC mode line popup when clicked is off screen

[Brian Zwahr]

Finally was able to compile and make after installing a bunch of libs. The patch seems to work!

On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 10:08 +0200, Robert Pluim wrote:

> Brian Zwahr <echosa@echosa.net> writes:
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> I'm not exactly sure what to do with this. I assume I need to get the
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> latest source and build it, after applying this diff? Where do I get
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> the source? I've never built Emacs from source before. I'll try to get
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> to it when I can.
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> Yes. You can get the emacs-26 branch sources by doing
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>     git clone -b emacs-26 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git
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> then
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>     sudo apt-get build-dep emacs
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>     cd emacs
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>     git apply menus.patch #assuming you put my patch in menus.patch
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>     ./autogen.sh
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>     ./configure
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>     make
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>     src/emacs -Q
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> and then let us know how it goes.
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> Regards
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> Robert