That seemed to fix the problem.
Thanks for the help !
- Soumendra Daas
Brad Giaccio wrote:
> Well it must be a small world I just picked this up on comp.emacs.xemacs yesterday
>it has to do with a problem involving tempo.el. Here is the authors message:
> ------------------------
>
> Hi there, I'm the original author of tempo.el. I just discovered that
> it is included in XEmacs too (although I would have guesed it).
> Unfortunately I also discovered that it has xemacs-related bugs.
>
> The problems occur when transient-mark-mode is used. I don't use
> xemacs, and once upon a time someone sent me patches to autodetect the
> different ways of Emacs / XEmacs regarding transient-mark-mode. But
> this doesn't seem to work anymore.
>
> My simple patch was to add two lines (marked with "+++" below) to
> tempo-insert-template.
>
> (defun tempo-insert-template (template on-region)
> "Insert a template.
> TEMPLATE is the template to be inserted. If ON-REGION is non-nil the
> `r' elements are replaced with the current region. In Transient Mark
> mode, ON-REGION is ignored and assumed true if the region is active."
> (unwind-protect
> (progn
> (if (or (and (boundp 'transient-mark-mode) ; For Emacs
> transient-mark-mode
> +++ (boundp 'mark-active)
> mark-active)
> (and (boundp 'zmacs-regions) ; For XEmacs
> zmacs-regions (mark)))
> (setq on-region t))
> (and on-region
> (set-marker tempo-region-start (min (mark) (point)))
> (set-marker tempo-region-stop (max (mark) (point))))
> (if on-region
> (goto-char tempo-region-start))
> (save-excursion
> (tempo-insert-mark (point-marker))
> (mapcar (function (lambda (elt)
> (tempo-insert elt on-region)))
> (symbol-value template))
> (tempo-insert-mark (point-marker)))
> (tempo-forward-mark))
> (tempo-forget-insertions)
> ;; Should I check for zmacs here too???
> (and (boundp 'transient-mark-mode)
> transient-mark-mode
> +++ (fboundp 'deactivate-mark)
> (deactivate-mark))))
>
> ------------------------
>
> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 01:11:35PM -0800, Soumendra Daas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I set "transient-mark-mode" to 1 and then try to generate the code for a
>console application
> > thorough the "File->JDE New->Console" menus, I get an emacs error saying :
> >
> > "Symbol's function definition is void: deactivate-mark"
> >
> > Any idea what this means and how to fix it ?
> >
> > BTW, if I use GNU Emacs 20.3 (on the same platform and environment), I get the
>correct desired
> > behavior. I am beginning to suspect that there is something flaky in our XEmacs
>installation, but then
> > I am a newbie at Emacs ..
> >
> > I'll appreciate any help on this
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > - Soumendra Daas
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
