Re: Archive files with upper case file names

2005-03-16 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:23:17 -0500 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I agree that the lists should be sync'd; however, when do people actually use upper-case extensions for these files? One common situation is this: one copies files via a floppy

Re: Archive files with upper case file names

2005-03-18 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:01:28 -0500 One common situation is this: one copies files via a floppy formatted with the old DOS FAT16 filesystem. (That filesystem stored all file names

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Doc fixes for goto-line.]

2005-03-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Matt Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:29:30 + Subject: Doc fixes for goto-line. The attached patch fixes a typo in the goto-line documentation, changes C-u to \\[universal-argument] (is this correct?), and documents optional arg

Re: Please install this.

2005-03-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:00:39 -0800 (PST) From: David Casperson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Subject: patch to textmodes/tex-mode.el for tex-view The symptoms are. M-x tex-view fails if the *tex-shell* process is not alive (perhaps because the user killed the

Re: A doc typo?

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Peter Dyballa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:17:09 +0100 It is bound to menu-bar file ps-print-buffer-faces. here, 'with-' missing No, it isn't missing. ps-print-buffer-faces in that context names a menu item's _name_, not the function which it invokes. The name of

Re: Bootstrap fail

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: =?iso-8859-15?q?J=E9r=F4me_Marant?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:00:22 +0100 Personaly, I rarely managed to get manuals built over the past months. ??? What prevented you from building them? ___ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list

Re: Crash in 2005-03-30 built

2005-04-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Reiner Steib [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:48:03 +0200 #0 abort () at [...]/emacs/src/emacs.c:456 #1 0x00539245 in Fgarbage_collect () at [...]/emacs/src/alloc.c:4742 #2 0x0057a1d4 in Fbyte_code (bytestr=9727377, vector=Variable vector is not

Re: Crash in 2005-03-30 built

2005-04-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Reiner Steib [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:21:02 +0200 On Fri, Apr 01 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote: From: Reiner Steib [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] #0 abort () at [...]/emacs/src/emacs.c:456 #1 0x00539245 in Fgarbage_collect

Re: more key bindings for xterm

2005-04-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:18:18 -0400 In what xterm did you test these? I remember vaguely that I tried in the past to add more bindings to xterm.el, but abandoned the idea after I

Re: Elisp manual omission?

2005-04-18 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Nick Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:29:17 +1200 - Command: delete-frame optional frame force This function deletes the frame FRAME. Unless FRAME is a tooltip, it first runs the hook `delete-frame-functions' (each function So a tooltip is a frame.

Re: Elisp manual omission?

2005-04-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:53:42 -0400 Is there something that would be useful to add to the manual about this? Useful for users programming Emacs, that is? Perhaps just document some of the variables

Re: Focus problem with multiple frames popup help

2005-04-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:53:11 -0400 Cc: ''Emacs-Pretest-Bug \(E-mail\)' emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I don't believe there is an option that will cause focus to follow a mouse on MS Windows systems. Actually there is (thank god), using the PowerUI

Re: c-macro-expand isn't part of CC Mode [Was: cpp use in cc-mode is broken]

2005-05-04 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:00:50 + (GMT) From: Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org `c-macro-expand' actually lives in the file .../list/progmodes/cmacexp.el. This file was last updated 3 years 8 months ago by Eli. Yes,

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: occur and read-only text.]

2005-05-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Matt Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:38:25 +0100 Subject: occur and read-only text. When there are read-only text properties in a buffer, occur fails with Text is read-only. If no *Occur* buffer exists before the call, the failure is

Re: Please install this.

2005-05-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd?=) To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 00:12:44 +0200 Subject: easy-mmode-pretty-mode-name, missing regexp-quote Problem: (define-minor-mode bar nil [OE] nil) (documentation-property 'bar 'variable-documentation)

Re: Elisp manual omission?

2005-05-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 19:27:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Note that the file emacs-xtra is available to document things that are too specialized (probably a better name than obscure) for the Elisp (or Emacs) manual and too small to have

Re: set-variable() causes some warnings in NTEmacs

2005-05-21 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 10:55:10 +0900 From: MIYOSHI Masanori [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- cus-start.el.orig +++ cus-start.el @@ -323,7 +323,13 @@ ((string-match \\`w32- (symbol-name symbol)) (eq system-type 'windows-nt))

Re: set-variable() causes some warnings in NTEmacs

2005-05-22 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 19:46:33 +0900 From: MIYOSHI Masanori [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org eliz Can't this be achieved without using system-type? Maybe it's hard to do so. Emacs on Windows has some `x-' prefixed functions but does not have the others. Without

Re: generic-x mode does not load in init

2005-05-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Lute Kamstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 18:28:34 +0200 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org i've had another problem with lisp/generic-x.el after cvs up today. it wouldn't compile, because: generic-x.el:462:11:Error: Symbol's function definition is void:

Re: Crash when visiting source file

2005-05-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Steven T. Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 18:47:27 -0400 The first anomaly appears at line 2146: #2142 0x08130380 in mark_object (arg=139610081) at /download/org/gnu/emacs/emacs/src/alloc.c:5316 #2143 0x08130508 in mark_object (arg=138258477) at

Re: Use no tabs in Info

2005-06-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:28:48 -0400 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the TABs in info buffers don't come from Emacs but from actual info files (generated by makeinfo, or install-info, or by hand). install-info doesn't change the Info

Re: Crash when visiting source file

2005-06-05 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Steven T. Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:05:03 -0400 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I can try to get some more out of GDB, but I really think the problem is that EDE is blowing the stack with a recursive call. To see if this is the case, compare inside GDB the

Re: Wrong display and hang with zero-length overlay display string

2005-06-11 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:52:54 +0200 On MS Windows the following code will generate a buffer which displays aaa and after that a lot of whitespace. If you scroll around a bit Emacs will hang with 100% CPU usage. Typing `C-g' does not help. (progn

Re: loaddefs.el has no effect

2005-06-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: RGB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:05:38 -0500 When I build Emacs I want some additional major modes to be part of the build. Previously I just put the additional mode files in \lisp\progmodes and rebuild. I pretty much always just do a BOOTSTRAP build. Something has

Re: Some Emacs manual errors.

2005-06-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard M. Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:46:24 -0400 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org This section describes the commands to check the spelling of a single word or of a portion of a buffer. These commands work with the spelling checker program Ispell,

Re: loaddefs.el has no effect

2005-06-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: RGB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:42:23 -0500 When I build Emacs I want some additional major modes to be part of the build. Previously I just put the additional mode files in \lisp\progmodes and rebuild. I pretty much always just

Re: loaddefs.el has no effect

2005-06-27 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: RGB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:41:02 -0500 If you don't install, a version dumped using ldefs-boot.el remains in the bin directory and everything appears as though you are using a newly compiled version including the version string.

Re: Sorting of directories in dired

2005-07-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Drew Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:43:59 -0700 Cc: Emacs-Pretest-Bug emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I've been doing the same thing Juanma does (code above). But I wonder if there isn't a bug in `ls-lisp.el'. Notice the commented-out line in `ls-lisp-emulation' (below).

Re: Sorting of directories in dired

2005-07-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Drew Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:53:58 -0700 Cc: I don't think uid and gid will be too useful on Windows. IMHO, they will be as useful as they are on Posix platforms; I don't see any difference. Most Windows users will be on one-user (standalone, personal)

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Problems with non-zero scroll-margin]

2005-07-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Subject: Re: Problems with non-zero scroll-margin * Richard M. Stallman (2005-07-05) writes: Besides GDB another easy to use testcase is ielm. Type `M-x ielm RET' and press RET until the

Re: add more key bindings to rxvt.el

2005-07-22 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Dan Nicolaescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:47:19 -0700 So something like the following needs to be added: (substitute-key-definition [f11] [S-f1] function-key-map) (substitute-key-definition [f12] [S-f2] function-key-map) And to

Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

2005-07-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Dan Nicolaescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:47:01 -0700 Is there a better way to do this? Better in what way? Probably the defuns and defvars need to be moved outside the if COLORTERM, as it is now the byte compiler warns about

Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

2005-07-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Dan Nicolaescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:07:51 -0700 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org This actually brings us a step closer to another proposal that is needed for the multi-tty branch: each one of the term/*.el files should define an autoloaded function called

Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

2005-07-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Dan Nicolaescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:43:21 -0700 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that quite often users of the rxvt terminal set the TERM variable to xterm. This causes Emacs to load term/xterm.el.

Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

2005-07-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Kenichi Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:58:08 +0900 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Because it's not terminal specific information but information to find a specific terminal. Actually, it's both: the fact that rxvt sets TERM=xterm _is_ specific to rxvt and xterm.

Re: problems with face-spec-reset-face and set-face-attribute

2005-07-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:45:35 +0300 From: Eli Zaretskii [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I'll look into the problem with :inherit when I have time, unless someone beats me to it. Perhaps I missed something, but it looks like this is simply unsupported: we handle most face

Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

2005-07-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Dan Nicolaescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:01:44 -0700 I didn't change yet the indentation of THE REST OF TERM/XTERM.EL to avoid too many gratuitous changes if a better solution is found. ??? Won't C-M-\ reindent the

Re: rxvt vs xterm keybindings

2005-07-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Dan Nicolaescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:30:54 -0700 I suggest to call the function only if it's fboundp. It's IMHO unsafe to jump into the blue without checking. Agreed. Is this version OK to commit?

Re: emacs --help is slightly inaccurate

2005-08-27 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:19:15 +0200 From: Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Starting emacs --help gives a slightly inaccurate information. Thanks, I fixed that as you suggested. ___ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list Emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org

Re: Building Emacs with DJGPP fails in the lib-src directory

2005-09-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:59:25 +0200 From: Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just tried to build Emacs on a legacy operating system with DJGPP, but that did not really work out of the box. After config msdos, make bootstrap successfully compiled the .elc files but then failed in the

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: aspell does not work]

2005-09-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Magnus Henoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:54:30 +0200 Subject: Re: aspell does not work Peter Dyballa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using: @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.2) The GNU Emacs CVS code is about one week old. I

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: python-describe-symbol fix for python.el and emacs.py]

2005-09-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Steven Huwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:46:13 -0400 To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Subject: python-describe-symbol fix for python.el and emacs.py Using the copy of emacs.py I just pulled from CVS, the following behavior occurs: from Tkinter import *

Re: Can't use file name completion in Customize for Program Files subdir

2005-09-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:03:36 +0200 From: Lennart Borgman [EMAIL PROTECTED] M-x customize-option RET explicit-shell-file-name Choose File in Value Menu and then type C:/Program File/ and M-Tab. You probably meant C:/Program

Re: `(' fontification.

2005-10-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Michael Cadilhac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:06:38 +0200 I don't know if it's an expected behavior, but when in emacs-lisp-mode, if I write aoeuaoeuaoeu (aoeuaoeuaoeu aoeuaoeuaoeu The opening ( is fontified with font-lock-warning-face. That's a

Re: Weird behavior of fill-paragraph.

2005-10-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Michael Cadilhac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:23:02 +0200 My fill-column is 70, I'm in emacs -Q. I've buffer that contains : Qqqq qq qq qq qqq. Qqq If I M-q on this line, I obtain : Qqqq

Re: Weird behavior of fill-paragraph.

2005-10-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:48:42 -0400 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Romain Francoise [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, speaking here as a francophone who may have spent too much time in anglophone countries, I really don't understand why this double-space

Re: Invalid function upon loading image at startup

2005-10-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Stephen Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:28:05 +0200 I just built Emacs from CVS (using make and make recompile) without any error messages, and upon starting with emacs -q an invalid function error is raised, and the frame has a very thin tool bar with no buttons.

Re: woman case sensitive

2005-10-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Roland Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:46:39 +0200 On my GNU linux system the command man is not case sensitive. Executing `man -w -a UiL' gives /usr/X11R6/man/man1/uil.1.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man3/Uil.3.gz /usr/X11R6/man/man5/UIL.5.gz even though there is no

Re: woman case sensitive

2005-10-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard M. Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:34:00 -0400 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org On my GNU linux system the command man is not case sensitive. That is not the case for me. `man cat' presents the man page for `cat'. `man CAT' says it can't find

Re: Ediff fails on compressed files

2005-10-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:55:10 +0200 From: Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ediff often fails on compressed files. Take the following steps to reproduce it: $ echo foo | gzip -c foo.gz $ echo bar | gzip -c bar.gz $ emacs -Q --eval '(ediff-files foo.gz bar.gz)' Emacs will beep and

Re: menu-updating-frame is nil on X

2005-11-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:31:31 +0200 In Emacs configured with '--with-x-toolkit=no' on i686-pc-linux-gnu and run with `emacs -Q', `menu-updating-frame' is nil. This causes some menu items to be permanently disabled due to the condition in

Re: menu-updating-frame is nil on X

2005-11-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:43:43 +0200 In Emacs configured with '--with-x-toolkit=no' on i686-pc-linux-gnu and run with `emacs -Q', `menu-updating-frame' is nil. This causes some menu items to be permanently disabled due

Re: menu-updating-frame is nil on X

2005-11-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:38:34 +0200 In xmenu.c the function set_frame_menubar binds menu-updating-frame to the frame passed to it as argument. Could you please look and see why this isn't working as intended? The

Re: menu-updating-frame is nil on X

2005-11-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:08:05 +0200 Does the following patch give good results? Index: src/xmenu.c === RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/xmenu.c,v

Re: emacs -f gnus shows the splashscreen instead of Gnus

2005-11-11 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard M. Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:49:21 -0500 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why not use the splash screen as a screen saver, i.e. if emacs has been idle for N seconds, show the splash screen (of course, people should have

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-11 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:32:44 -0800 From: Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Wohler wrote: Also, why does the same code work in Emacs 21 and not in Emacs 22? I believe that I answered this in an earlier

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-11 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:26:47 +0100 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK, Gerd isn't listening, so I CC'ed him. Gerd, can you please help? revision 1.2 date: 2003/07/23 00:00:13;  author: gm;  

Re: Strange things with (shrink-window).

2005-11-15 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Michael Cadilhac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:45:39 +0100 I haven't seen this issue discussed : $ emacs -Q (with or without -nw) Then C-x 3 C-x 2, then go to the window on the right. Now, M-x global-set-key RET F10 RET shrink-window RET Then press

Re: Inclusion of png symbol images as ico files

2005-11-21 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:06:34 +0100 From: Christoph Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are several new icons as png images in etc/images/icons. Those icons appear as symbol at top of the window, left. They are not available as ico files for compilation on windows in nt/icons. I converted

Re: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region

2005-11-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:42:54 -0600 (CST) From: Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I have taught Math courses that use mathematical software to Math Ed students, some of them middle aged and with very limited computer knowledge. I recommend that they use Emacs

Re: Myths about newbies (was: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region)

2005-12-02 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:55:08 -0600 (CST) From: Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eli Zaretskii wrote: Care to share the details (what problems newbies are supposed to have, but don't)? I do not want to seem to reopen recent

Re: Myths about newbies (was: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region)

2005-12-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard M. Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:19:58 -0500 Would you please take this discussion off emacs-devel? There is no discussion, AFAICT. My message was the only one; no one replied. That said, there's no

Re: crash: memcpy, XChangeProperty, XSetTextProperty, XSetWMIconName, x_set_name_internal

2005-12-05 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Reiner Steib [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:42:02 +0100 (gdb) frame 5 #5 0x004c874e in x_set_name_internal (f=0x3563680, name=Variable name is not available. ) at [...]/emacs/src/xfns.c:1657 1657XSetWMIconName

Re: crash: memcpy, XChangeProperty, XSetTextProperty, XSetWMIconName, x_set_name_internal

2005-12-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Reiner Steib [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:13:21 +0100 (gdb) frame 6 #6 0x0047433c in prepare_menu_bars () at .../emacs/src/xdisp.c:8808 8808x_implicitly_set_name (f, make_string (title, len), Qnil); (gdb) p name No symbol name in current

Re: completion in find-file

2005-12-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:34:23 +0200 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org If so, is there a way to customize it and get back the old behaviour? The Emacs Manual says how to customize key bindings. I checked the

Re: narrow-to-region keybinding

2005-12-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:35:16 -0500 From: Edwin Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] The key binding 'C-x nn' for narrow-to-region has been disabled. In what version of Emacs did you see it enabled? At least in 21.4 it was disabled as well, and the manual even mentions this explicitly (in the node

Re: loaddefs.el on Windows incomplete

2005-12-18 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:56:18 +0100 2005-07-08 Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] * makefile.w32-in (autoloads): Do not let autoload file name be mangled by the shell. I'd like to followup on this because until now nothing has happened and

Re: loaddefs.el on Windows incomplete

2005-12-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:23:37 +0100 * Eli Zaretskii (2005-12-18) writes: However, I cannot accept your patch as it stands. First, you missed the important WARNING in the comment just preceding the commands you

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2005-12-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:45:05 +0200 What is the purpose of the error message: Function w32_abort not defined. printed when Emacs is started under GDB on GNU/Linux? There's no _purpose_ to it, it's a _consequence_ of GDB trying to set a breakpoint

Re: loaddefs.el on Windows incomplete

2005-12-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:23:37 +0100 Is there any reasonable chance that MSYS maintainers will fix this? Could you check with them, or maybe try their latest snapshot of ported Bash and see if the problem went away? I

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2005-12-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:51:31 +0200 Usually I don't configure Emacs with --without-x, so I don't see a similar message. I see it a lot. It would be good to somehow suppress this message (by using some GDB option?). I

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2005-12-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1970 03:25:26 -0500 what's w32_abort? See w32fns.c: it pops up the Emacs Abort dialog. The MS-Windows build redirects all calls to `abort' to this function. Couldn't we

Re: loaddefs.el on Windows incomplete

2005-12-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:56:17 +0100 Thanks for your efforts. I did a fresh checkout into a new directory, ran `configure ...' and while doing `mingw32-make bootstrap' the following error occurred: --8---cut

Re: loaddefs.el on Windows incomplete

2005-12-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:56:17 +0100 ./../bin/emacs.exe -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l autoload \ --eval '(setq find-file-hook nil find-file-suppress-same-file-warnings t)' \ -f

Re: loaddefs.el on Windows incomplete

2005-12-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:22:40 +0100 Okay, now I tried again and creation of autoloads works. I checked this with MinGW's mingw32-make and MSYS' make. In both cases lisp/autoloads.el is created with only a small difference: $ diff -u

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2005-12-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard M. Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 21:19:25 -0500 We could add this command to .gdbinit to reassure anyone who might get worried: output If you see messages immediately following about functions not being

Re: jit-lock.el functions variables appear undocumented.

2005-12-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: RGB [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:25:27 -0600 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I then searched for the string 'jit-lock' in the DOC file. This was the only occurrence: For a newer font-lock support mode with similar functionality, see `jit-lock-mode'. Eventually,

Re: jit-lock.el functions variables appear undocumented.

2005-12-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:55:34 +0100 From: martin rudalics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org My last build where this worked correctly is from 2005-10-20. A build from 2005-11-06 already doesn't have the doc-strings. On what OS? (Please always tell that, since the

Re: jit-lock.el functions variables appear undocumented.

2005-12-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:00:33 +0100 From: martin rudalics [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Lied again, the tool-bar variables are in C. Everything's as you told. So now these problems should be gone, at least on Windows.

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2005-12-31 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:54:35 +0200 We could add this command to .gdbinit to reassure anyone who might get worried: output If you see messages immediately following about functions not being

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2006-01-04 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Cc: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:51:32 +0100 I added a run-time check on Vsystem_type -- that works on a dumped emacs; it doesn't really matter on an undumped emacs, as anyone seldom debugs that.

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Nick Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:59:42 +1300 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I fixed a typo Oops! that was a left-over from my testing. Thanks for catching it. but why have you taken your code out of the conditional? Because it didn't work inside the

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Typo in textmodes/bibtex.el]

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Michael Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:11:17 -0500 Subject: Typo in textmodes/bibtex.el This patch fixes a typo in textmodes/bibtex.el. Thanks, I installed it. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Typos in lisp/textmodes/tildify.el]

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Michael Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:27:34 -0500 Subject: Typos in lisp/textmodes/tildify.el This patch fixes two misspellings in lisp/textmodes/tildify.el. 2006-01-01 mernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] * textmodes/tildify.el: Fix

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: etc/NEWS typos]

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Michael Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:29:54 -0500 Subject: etc/NEWS typos X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 This patch fixes a number of English and grammar errors in etc/NEWS .

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Type in emacs-lisp/find-func.el]

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Michael Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:15:17 -0500 Subject: Type in emacs-lisp/find-func.el This patch fixes a typo in emacs-lisp/find-func.el ChangeLog entry: 2006-01-01 Michael Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:39:35 +0200 From: Eli Zaretskii [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org but why have you taken your code out of the conditional? Because it didn't work inside the conditional in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and a recent snapshot of the GDB CVS. GDB 6.2 also exhibits

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Quitting `save-buffer' loses backup file]

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:04:39 +0100 From: Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Subject: Re: Quitting `save-buffer' loses backup file I wrote: Here is a summary of what Emacs does in the scenario: (a) Before saving bar, Emacs renames

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2006-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Nick Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:35:51 +1300 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org GDB 6.2 also exhibits this problem. GDB 6.1 works okay. It doesn't seemd to work with GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.43rh). Perhaps that narrows things down a bit

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2006-01-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard M. Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:23:20 -0500 but why have you taken your code out of the conditional? Because it didn't work inside the conditional in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and a recent

Re: build process tried to build xmenu.c when it couldn't find X Windows headers

2006-01-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:04:23 +0100 From: Chris Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just tried building Emacs and it failed. I didn't have the X headers installed, but I asked it to use the GTK toolkit. Thanks for the report. Someone who knows about GTK more than I will look into this, but in the

Re: Crash when bootstrapping emacs

2006-01-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Christoph Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:34:58 +0100 make[1]: Entering directory `/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim' EMACSLOADPATH=/var/local/cc/news/emacs/leim/../lisp ../src/emacs -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -f batch-byte-compile

Re: Rmail: rmail-enable-mime is causing troubles

2006-01-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Xavier Maillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:54:58 +0100 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Except that here, it just fails when trying to make it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22:37:02 rmail-mime]$ make echo ' ' lisp/autodefs.el

Re: autoload and auto-compression-mode

2006-01-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:49:57 +0100 From: Roland Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] The CVS emacs I installed today gives me a bug with autoload and auto-compression-mode that can be reproduced as follows: cat ~/foo/foo.el EOF (defun foo () (interactive) (message Hello world.)) EOF echo

Re: Function w32_abort not defined

2006-01-14 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard M. Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:23:20 -0500 but why have you taken your code out of the conditional? Because it didn't work inside the conditional in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and a recent

Re: `make info' fails on cc-mode.texi with Texinfo 4.3

2006-01-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:10:30 +0100 The build process aborts if `make info' is called with Texinfo 4.3. Here is the build output: $ make info [Please ignore a syntax error on the next line - it is intentional] /bin/sh.exe: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF

Re: C-h i fails after untabification of info/dir

2006-01-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Ralf Angeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:24:57 +0100 The latest (Jan 27th) changes to info/dir, i.e. its untabification lead to the error byte-code: No such node or anchor: top when typing C-h i. Sorry, mea culpa. Should be fixed now.

Re: nil became bound to (#save_value ptr=0x085526f0 int=0 96536 96288)

2006-01-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Joe Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:31:01 + Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Anyway, maybe not everyone else will have the same attitude that you do. Others might just ignore the message, but no-one without Gentoo can help you if the bug is no longer in

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: arc-mode fails for some nested archives (patch included)]

2006-02-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org From: Joe Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:33:17 + Suppose you have a .zip file which contains a member named: abc/def.jar Suppose abc/def.jar further contains more files. Then when you try to visit one of the files inside

Re: autoload and auto-compression-mode

2006-02-21 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:28:22 -0600 (CST) From: Luc Teirlinck [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I substantialy shortened the docstrings of `load-suffixes' and the still to be renamed `load-file-rep-suffixes' Too much, I think.

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