Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-11 Thread Robert J. Chassell
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Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
novices to think that M-x should be used more often than need be. At least, with the image of a Gnu head, no novice is going to think that Emacs is a Gnu, although they might wonder about the connection between GNU Emacs and an operating system with a Linux kernel. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
, but transpose-sentences less frequently. I agree ... the ability to write enhancements to Emacs is a central feature ... -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-09 Thread Robert J. Chassell
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Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

2005-09-19 Thread Robert J. Chassell
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Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

2005-09-17 Thread Robert J. Chassell
word would be better, but `completions' is not it, nor are any of the words that direct attention to components. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: no prompt when reading chars

2005-08-15 Thread Robert J. Chassell
prompt Window configuration to register: you'll see C-x r w-. Yes, I see the same using today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Mon, 2005 Aug 15 11:04 UTC GNU Emacs 22.0.50.71 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.8) started with /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -D -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: RMAIL settings [was: Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server]

2005-08-08 Thread Robert J. Chassell
returned value greater than losses resulting from their suppression of cooperation but do not do so now. However, Emacs variables are global and voluntary so they do less damage to cooperation as they go obsolete than laws, since laws are involuntary. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: RMAIL settings [was: Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server]

2005-08-07 Thread Robert J. Chassell
' cost activities rather than support, even just a little, inethical laws and social customs. But I do not know you or your conditions; only that you are hurting me and people I know. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http

RMAIL settings [was: Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server]

2005-08-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
) ;; Automatically display summary (setq rmail-display-summary t) My mail-user-agent's value is sendmail-user-agent, which is the default. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com

Re: void symbol: font-lock-keyword-face

2005-08-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.64 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.8) -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: RMAIL settings [was: Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server]

2005-08-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
about free speech? Only partly. In this instance, mostly I am talking about being forced under penalty of law to transfer resources unfairly. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com

Re: info.texi

2005-08-04 Thread Robert J. Chassell
under Enlightenment. S-TAB also fails in a Virtual Console (no X). M-TAB, ESC-TAB, and C-M-i also fail in both instances. However, evoked in an xterm with emacs -Q -D S-TAB succeeds as a frame in the X window manager under Enlightenment. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: Strange change in bytecmop.el

2005-07-25 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. I agree that Forcing the maintainers ... to have different distribution paths ... is wrong. But the sad truth is that legally (although not morally) the effort is a waste for themselves and others until the very bothersome legal requirements are met. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server

2005-07-15 Thread Robert J. Chassell
that company's software. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http

Re: [comp.emacs] Announcing Easymacs: an all-in-one Emacs configuration for newbies

2005-07-01 Thread Robert J. Chassell
set faces, you can change the expression in your .emacs file. This can be very convenient. This is a scheme that works for both novices and experts: use the old loading function, one new unloading function, and the current setting mechanisms. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: vc-annotate fails

2005-07-01 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Kim F. Storm wrote Sounds like the cvs / ssh problem described in INSTALL.CVS. Yes. However, the bug was discussed a long time ago. vc-annotate (or cvs or ssh) should have been fixed by now. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu -shouldn'titusethepointerposition, not the cursor position?)

2005-06-28 Thread Robert J. Chassell
adaption. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http

Re: Do Re Mi (was: Q on Text Properties popup menu-shouldn'titusethepointerposition, not the cursor position?)

2005-06-28 Thread Robert J. Chassell
setting in a big rectangle. You also will want to see previously set colors. Each of the four the GIMP color interfaces has a set of squares showing the previously set colors. Maybe all they need is to be made bigger and closer to the `current setting' rectangle. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: File menu changes (suggestions)

2005-06-27 Thread Robert J. Chassell
other frames visible on them. (I had not realized how many frames I was running. Of these frames, only five are different instances of Emacs.) -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com

Re: fringe buffer-boundary bitmaps

2005-06-23 Thread Robert J. Chassell
it.) -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Scroll lock

2005-06-22 Thread Robert J. Chassell
-backward-one-line () Scroll the text down one line. A replacement for the three keystroke sequence C-u 1 M-v. (interactive) (scroll-down 1)) (global-set-key [down] 'scroll-forward-one-line) ; Down arrow key (global-set-key [up] 'scroll-backward-one-line) ; Up arrow key -- Robert J

Re: fringe buffer-boundary bitmaps

2005-06-22 Thread Robert J. Chassell
' and on an instance started with my usual colors and fonts. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel

Re: link appearance and soft face properties

2005-06-19 Thread Robert J. Chassell
the underlined text to be different from the rest.) What should people who look at text, but for various reasons, use colors, never underlines or other such modifications. (Setting in their .emacs file.) -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: link appearance and soft face properties

2005-06-19 Thread Robert J. Chassell
continue and many still write for a single rendering on paper.) -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link

2005-06-18 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. The line and buffer appear in another window when I place point over the `w' of `forward-line' and press mouse-1. This does not occur when I place point over the `1' of the argument and press mouse-1. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [comp.emacs] Emacs defined in Collins English Dictionary

2005-06-14 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. It provides editing and other features. Although it provides various mouse commands, people often control Emacs through keyboard commands. People attempting humour use emacsen as the plural. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http

Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link

2005-06-14 Thread Robert J. Chassell
in every mode when point is over a marked link or in a mode where a whole line is a link. mouse-1should set point. As far as I can see, this will be OK both for novices coming and for experts. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [comp.emacs] Emacs defined in Collins English Dictionary

2005-06-14 Thread Robert J. Chassell
as an integrated user environment with editing capabilities than to explain that the word `editor' is not as defined elsewhere in the dictionary, but is a special usage for the entry. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID

Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link

2005-06-14 Thread Robert J. Chassell
reading documentation (for another program back in 1983 I remember learning that `middle is menu'; I had to relearn that binding). -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

2005-05-29 Thread Robert J. Chassell
.jpg.jpg dscf0004.jpg.jpg then I delete them all. I do not want to spend the minutes it takes to recreate thumbnails for the images in the directory for which I mainly need thumbnails. It takes too long. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

2005-05-28 Thread Robert J. Chassell
images that you see, but that is not how I operate. Presumably, some people do, but that is neither here nor there. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http

executable-find not defined

2005-05-12 Thread Robert J. Chassell
(/ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/bob/www/notions/reputation-implementation.html nil) eval((find-file /ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/bob/www/notions/reputation-implementation.html nil)) eval-last-sexp-1(nil) eval-last-sexp(nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-05-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
empty. and provided a patch. Using that patch, RMAIL deletions have been fast. At the moment, I have only 155 overlays in the RMAIL buffer rather than the many thousands as before. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-05-07 Thread Robert J. Chassell
or near the end. Thank you for the patch. I will try a new instance of Emacs with the hook for goto-address in my .emacs and with your fix. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-05-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
, but it may be a few days before my RMAIL slows again enough. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-05-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
to 1203445 in RMAIL #overlay from 1203316 to 1203346 in RMAIL #overlay from 1148200 to 1148200 in RMAIL) But rmail-overlay-list's value is (#overlay from 1203316 to 1203346 in RMAIL #overlay from 1203430 to 1203445 in RMAIL) -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-05-06 Thread Robert J. Chassell
is the same as for `nth 1'. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs

Re: bootstrap from scratch

2005-05-05 Thread Robert J. Chassell
and `calendar-longitude' to 0.0 by default but then tell people who want to learn about solar and lunar times that that default location is for Greenwich, England. That info should go away if `calendar-latitude' and `calendar-longitude' are set to any other value. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-05-05 Thread Robert J. Chassell
... Can you go to the RMAIL buffer and try something like (length (save-restriction (widen) (overlays-in (point-min) (point-max to see how many overlays are in the buffer? 6128 That is more than I expected. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

FSF address zipcode

2005-05-04 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Foundation, Inc. 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor Boston, MA 02110-1301 -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-05-04 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. */ struct Lisp_Marker *markers; so it looks to me that a long list of markers accumulates over time. But I do not know enough. I may be quite wrong about all of this. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8

bootstrap from scratch

2005-05-04 Thread Robert J. Chassell
' and `calendar-longitude' should be set to 0.0 rather than nil by defcustom. (I have done that, but tested it only with a `make recompile', since I do not want to do a bootstrap again.) -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http

Re: Should killing a help or compile buffer also delete the window?

2005-04-25 Thread Robert J. Chassell
with /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -D does not ask me that question in either situation, changed buffer or not. It just kills the buffer and the window. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-04-25 Thread Robert J. Chassell
+0300\nFrom: \Melba Andrade\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nSubject: Agenda for 2005: ReManufactured toner market\nTo: Decklin [EMAIL PROTECTED]\nMIME-version: 1.0\nX-Ma..., size2=557, startpos=156, range=401, regs=0x8320268, stop=557) at regex.c:4328 -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Should killing a help or compile buffer also delete the window?

2005-04-24 Thread Robert J. Chassell
in (emacs)Change Window? Right now `C-x 4 0' is third in the sequence, after `C-x 0' and `C-x 1'. That looks right to me. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-04-20 Thread Robert J. Chassell
the little difference is my imagination. However, after killing that instance of Emacs and starting a new instance, rmail sped up dramatically. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com

some fonts fail, CVS Wed, 2005 Apr 20 11:55 UTC

2005-04-20 Thread Robert J. Chassell
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t line-number-mode: t next-error-follow-minor-mode: Fol view-mode: t -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http

Re: desktop.el not playing nice

2005-04-17 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. But when I start a regular instance of Emacs, I do want to be able to load my saved desktop. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-04-08 Thread Robert J. Chassell
not see anything wrong. However, the function contains 1255 lines and I do not understand it. There may be something obvious in there which I do not see. Or maybe the problem comes from somewhere else and I am being fooled. Anyhow, I cannot figure out the bug. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: emacs -Q not documented

2005-04-05 Thread Robert J. Chassell
a long name for `-Q', and do not wish to use `--plain', please consider --no-init-site-splash-decorations-blinking which is long and ugly but does tell you what the option avoids. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-03-23 Thread Robert J. Chassell
-delete-forward call-interactively -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel mailing list

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-03-22 Thread Robert J. Chassell
next. What should I do? -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel

Re: RMAIL slows

2005-03-21 Thread Robert J. Chassell
each item could be or whether large items could slow my machine. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

RMAIL slows

2005-03-19 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Do you understand this?

2005-03-08 Thread Robert J. Chassell
on all this in 10 or 20 years. Normally I want Accept-Charset to be sent to an HTTP server based on an automatically computed list from Emacs' available character sets. Yes -- that is a good reason to put comments in the relevant source. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: ChangeLog?

2005-03-03 Thread Robert J. Chassell
the @kbd{C-x v a} command to copy it to the more general @file{ChangeLog} (@pxref{Change Logs and VC}). My hunch is that the current documentation is different than you thought and that the changed documentation says what you mean. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL

Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.

2005-03-02 Thread Robert J. Chassell
different. But in Emacs they have been integrated under one human notion. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: Key binding M-g should really be goto-line

2005-03-02 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. There are a great many different actions people want to do, and not that many keybindings. This suggests that if goto-line is bound to a key chord by default, it perhaps should be bound to a potentially less used key chord than to a potentially more used key chord. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.

2005-03-02 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Lines in this Buffer. (I am not claiming that the long lines option is unimportant, only that it is a buffer specific option that often does not effect `this buffer'. Consequently, it is less important than general options that have effects in all buffers.) -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.

2005-03-02 Thread Robert J. Chassell
as general options into a .emacs file so the user can see what the expressions look like, the way Customize does now with `baud-rate' and other such variables. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http

Re: Putting blink-cursor-mode in Options menu.

2005-03-01 Thread Robert J. Chassell
will know to put `(blink-cursor-mode 0)' in their init file. Your change to the Options menu is fine. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc

Re: `texinfo-format-buffer' doesn't fold long lines

2005-02-28 Thread Robert J. Chassell
rather advise that users to use makeinfo. texinfmt.el doesn't support quite a few of the newer features ... We should modify `makeinfo' to handle Japanese Texinfo, if need be. `makeinfo' is faster and `texinfmt.el' was deprecated a long time ago. -- Robert J. Chassell

Re: follow-link in grep buffer

2005-02-25 Thread Robert J. Chassell
point. I do not see anything wrong with that, so long as the links are small enough that I can, if need be, copy or delete the region when editing it; but please do not use the word `intuitive' for what is learned process. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation

2005-02-12 Thread Robert J. Chassell
and experts to show history -- that is to show the current value in one's .emacs or other initialization file, previous values from init file back ups, and the default or standard distribution value (which you get from `emacs -Q'), -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation

2005-02-10 Thread Robert J. Chassell
. That is why Customize should not only do its job, but make it easy for a person to learn. -- Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc