Re: Some newbie troubles with jdee
Kai =?iso-8859-15?Q?Gro=DFjohann?= writes: > > You are supposed to use (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) > instead of your setq statement. The reason is that a hook is normally > a list of functions to run. But if you use the setq statement, then > the hook will be just a single function, with no way to put in > multiple functions. > > Once upon a time, having a hook be a single function rather than a > list of functions was supported, but now I think it does not make > sense to cater for that use anymore. Thanks. That works. You are right about "once upon a time" My .emacs file contains incremental changes to an original file that is well over a decade old. -- Allyn
Re: Some newbie troubles with jdee
Allyn Dimock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Speedbar problem is a bit more subtle than documented: > Despite setting up load-path so that all of JDE and associated > packages appeared earlier in path than /usr/emacs/21.3/.../speeedbar.elc > still got back trace on JDE->Browse->Source Files, until I changed > name of /usr/emacs/21.3/.../speeedbar.elc. This is normally because speedbar has already been loaded before you change load-path. You can say (when (featurep 'speedbar) (error "Speedbar loaded too early")) just prior to modifying load-path to catch this problem. Emacs will then produce an error message if speedbar has been loaded too early. Kai
Re: Some newbie troubles with jdee
Allyn Dimock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When first trying to edit a .java file I got backtrace: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp turn-on-auto-fill) > member(turn-on-auto-fill turn-on-auto-fill) > > I commented out the only reference to auto-fill in my .emacs: > (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) > This should not have made any difference unless some artifact of > elisp's dynamic scope, but commenting it out seems to have made > problem go away. You are supposed to use (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) instead of your setq statement. The reason is that a hook is normally a list of functions to run. But if you use the setq statement, then the hook will be just a single function, with no way to put in multiple functions. What if you also want to use abbreviations in text mode? Then you need abbrev-mode in the text-mode-hook, too, and your setq will break. Once upon a time, having a hook be a single function rather than a list of functions was supported, but now I think it does not make sense to cater for that use anymore. Kai
