On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Solene Rapenne wrote:
emacs 25 has a X11 flavour -athena which do not use gtk, but you need to build it from ports, there is no package for it.
And indeed I do that. I thought that perhaps 21.4 is more stable, or less bloated ... Interessting remains to know, what the reson was. And I am tired that in some modes I cannot get emacs to stop writing things (like indentation) that I do not type. Rodrigo