Re: Ediff frequently crashes emacs.

2005-04-05 Thread Kim F. Storm
Peter Seibel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, here's another strange one which has happened a few times. I'll get an error in the minibuffer that says: Symbol's value as variable is void: nil No matter what I do I continue to get that error or something similar such as: Error in

Re: undo problem in shell

2005-04-05 Thread Joakim Verona
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this works, but after some time emacs hangs. I attached gdb and found it hangs around here: Program received signal SIGTSTP, Stopped (user). 0x0819f18a in truncate_undo_list (b=0x9430a08) at undo.c:366 Of course, that will

Re: Point of wrong window used in read-from-minibuffer?

2005-04-05 Thread Ulf Klaperski
Hi, Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 05.04.05 00:52:22: - Load a vhdl file - Divide emacs into two windows vertically, both showing the same buffer - Jump to the end of the buffer in the upper window - Switch to the lower window, near the beginning - Type signal (with a

Re: Default :group in lisp/emacs-lisp/easy-mmode.el.

2005-04-05 Thread Lute Kamstra
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the current situation is best, it fixed the bug that the behavior was different when loading the .el file than when loading the .elc file. Sorry, I've decided I won't let this change remain installed. We will not move towards

Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

2005-04-05 Thread Kim F. Storm
Jan D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is truly odd. How come the XIM code doesn't trigger this same problem? I think the XIM code explicitly names the charset it wants. But our XIM code calls XCreateFontSet, just like Xt code. And browsing the Xt source, the Cannot convert string to

Carbon Emacs: OS X 1.4 (Tiger), crash on startup

2005-04-05 Thread David Reitter
A recent CVS build (22.0.50.6, 2005-03-29) fails to run on OS X 10.4 (Tiger). If the Carbon binary is run from the command line, the user gets Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/usr/local/libexec/emacs/22.0.50/powerpc-apple-darwin7.8.0/) does not exist. Fatal error (6)Abort trap There is no

debugging Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth error?

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Moore
Very occasionally I find that my Emacs environment gets into a state when most operations I try to do result in a Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth error. I've no idea what triggers this condition, and killing the Emacs process (for 'save-buffers-kill-emacs' is one of the operations which

Re: Ediff frequently crashes emacs.

2005-04-05 Thread Peter Seibel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: Peter Seibel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, here's another strange one which has happened a few times. I'll get an error in the minibuffer that says: Symbol's value as variable is void: nil No matter what I do I continue to get that error or

Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

2005-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
$ ./missfonts $ ./missfonts -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,* Missing 0: ISO8859-1 $ ./missfonts -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*,* Missing 0: ISO8859-1 The xfs configuration doesn't list any ISO8859-1 fonts: Somewhere, specifying UTF-8 requires ISO8859-1 ? So it seems

Re: Ediff frequently crashes emacs.

2005-04-05 Thread Kim F. Storm
Peter Seibel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does M-x list-processes show ? When? I am typically running a shell and an inferior lisp (with SLIME). Can you reproduce the problem starting with emacs -q, i.e. without loading your .emacs and not loading any other packages. We have seen

Re: Point of wrong window used in read-from-minibuffer?

2005-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
The problem is triggered in vhdl-template-field, it seems that read-from-minibuffer switches to the point position of the wrong window. I don't know how to fix it, but I've traced it to the following problem: % emacs -Q [ type in some random text] C-x 2 [ move point elsewhere ] M-:

Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

2005-04-05 Thread Kim F. Storm
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ ./missfonts $ ./missfonts -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*,* Missing 0: ISO8859-1 $ ./missfonts -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*,* Missing 0: ISO8859-1 The xfs configuration doesn't list any ISO8859-1 fonts: Somewhere, specifying

gud-pdb-command-name wrong

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Love
The value of gud-pdb-command-name was changed from pdb, which I think was a result of my misunderstanding. It should be changed back to pdb since the output of the `pydb' variant of the debugger isn't compatible. The doc string could note that incompatibility. It could also say that if you

Re: treat .xpi as archive file

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Love
Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But wouldn't it be better instead of these extension to add ZIP magic string PK^C^D to `magic-mode-alist' to recognize archive files for any possible extension? Yes, in principle (like compressed files), but please don't mess with that now. I doubt using

Re: bad interaction between C-s and C-x )

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Love
Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should be able to reproduce the bug however, if you first set isearch-allow-scroll to t. For what it's worth, in my case that was nil. ___ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list Emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org

Re: utf-16 not auto-detected when finding file

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Love
David Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Exactly what Windows does for what? Recognizing a utf-16 registry file when opened in the registry editor? Auto-detecting utf-16 generally. Although I don't think it would give false positives on iso-8859 text, I don't know if it could with other

Re: bad interaction between C-s and C-x )

2005-04-05 Thread Kim F. Storm
Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should be able to reproduce the bug however, if you first set isearch-allow-scroll to t. For what it's worth, in my case that was nil. Has this problem been solved with the fix I installed? -- Kim F. Storm

Re: character syntax fixes needed

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Love
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'm telling you is that the standards are not authorities. They obviously are authorities when they define the charsets Emacs wants to implement, at least. As far as I know, Unicode is the single authority on the world's character usage, as far

Re: obscure new display features

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Love
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unicode is entitled to its opinion, but we do not necessarily follow Unicode's opinion. It's not an opinion, it's a statement of fact about line breaking in general even if you don't accept the semantics of U+00AD as a format character. Even if you

Re: bad interaction between C-s and C-x )

2005-04-05 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Kim Storm wrote: Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You should be able to reproduce the bug however, if you first set isearch-allow-scroll to t. For what it's worth, in my case that was nil. Has this problem been solved with

Re: poor additions in quail/latin-ltx

2005-04-05 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenichi Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't realize that was implemented. It looks helpful, but it doesn't do what I'd expect. For instance, if I type `\righta TAB', I'd like it to complete to `\rightarrow', like

Re: junk in *grep* buffers

2005-04-05 Thread Miles Bader
On Apr 6, 2005 8:46 AM, Lute Kamstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a sneaky suspicion that something goes awry with the interaction between font-locking and the code in grep-mode-font-lock-keywords that removes the escape sequences. That sounds likely. The technique that grep.el uses

Re: character syntax fixes needed

2005-04-05 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unicode says how guillemets are used as a matter of fact, which you can verify. It's manifestly wrong for single ones to have word syntax and double ones to have paren syntax and I wish I'd just changed it when I had the

gud-pdb-command-name wrong

2005-04-05 Thread Nick Roberts
The value of gud-pdb-command-name was changed from pdb, which I think was a result of my misunderstanding. It should be changed back to pdb since the output of the `pydb' variant of the debugger isn't compatible. The doc string could note that incompatibility. It could also say

(kbd S-TAB) doesn't work

2005-04-05 Thread Joe Corneli
As far as I know, (define-key map (kbd S-TAB) 'nero-move-to-previous-link) should work, i.e., it should do the same thing as (define-key map [(shift tab)] 'nero-move-to-previous-link) However, I needed to use the latter syntax to actually get my binding bound. Using the first form and C-h

Re: debugging Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth error?

2005-04-05 Thread Richard Stallman
If things are that messed up, you probably need to do your debugging in GDB. You could put a GDB breakpoint at lines like this in eval.c: error (Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth); (I think there are two such lines.) ___

Re: undo problem in shell

2005-04-05 Thread Richard Stallman
Emacs fails to respond, because it is buzy truncating a very large undo list. My emacs doesnt respond to c-g during this operation, and maybe that is normal behaviour. It is strange that the undo list could get so big that traversing it takes such a long time without having been