Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then there was the issue with ndbm.h not getting found. It was located in
/usr/include/db1 but I had to explicitly specify that dir with
--site-includes, which I thought was a bit strange.
That is because the glibc maintainers have decide to move to db2
Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to
know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why?
I am trying to stay out of this thread (because discussions like this
always become holy wars) but I couldn't let this one pass.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've had some problems running xemacs20 (mule) on the console and it going
into an error loop of some kind when resizing the console or killing gpm.
I usually run my emaxen under 'screen', mostly because I switch around
terminals so often.
The gpm part is fixed in
Prashanth Mundkur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
** Variable reference to constant :buffer
** Variable reference to constant :force
[...]
** Variable reference to constant :get-descriptor-too
The messages are nothing to worry about. They are caused when a
package tries to be compatible
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to
either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before
starting xemacs on the console. See
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several
VERY OLD
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just installed xemacs21. It's still running together with xemacs20
untill it will work fine. (I Installed it because I hoped for some new
mule support which apperently isn't present yet).
What new mule support had you hoped for?
Jan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes:
How do you determine this?
The Mule people said so. It is kept pretty low profile
All the copyright statements I saw in 20.4 after a quick check were
merely by the FSF, including such docs as etc/DISTRIB.
I don't have 20.4 here. But this is the top
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith) writes:
to take someone to court for violating the copyright. The FSF's
position in a court case (if it were to ever come to that) is immensely
strengthened and simplified by virtue of being the sole copyright
owner. As such, they have much more legal clout
:-)
but that didn't work here.
It should. Could you please find out why?
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Min Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about the /etc/*emacs/site-start.d/* stuff?
If I want to keep the xemacs20 style, i.e., automatically source these
starting up files, how can I do that?
You need to copy the Debian specific code that does that (not sure
where that is, I am not near a
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
find . -name \*.gz | xargs gunzip
Of course, if he did this, he shouldn't expect the system to
upgrade cleanly anymore, and worse, remocving the packages won't
delete the uncompressed files.
Hey, his system, he wants to mangle it instead of
J.H.M. Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can use see from the mime-support package to view compressed/gzipped
DVI files.
Sigh...A simple xdvi would be a lot nicer.
Let me rephrase my wish then: I would if I could get some global
option to get the documentation uncompressed. For some reason
lisp stuff properly.
stick them in /lib/xemacs/site-packages/lisp
Jan
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Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP
with gdm or such. So the packages don't conflict in a traditional
sense. But looks like all of them try to manage :0 and therefore there
is this mess.
Wouldn't this be solved
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In dselect the Scanning available packages .. part puts out about
one dot every three seconds.
Isn't this output from 'dpkg'?, it can build huge internal tables (or
something like that at least it grew to a wopping 13MB RSS for me
once.).
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) | gs-aladdin
to
Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33)
Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far?
In addition, the packages in main
= * must not require a package outside of main
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For me it is the addition by the gs-aladdin maintainer of the HP Deskjet
driver.
But that driver is LGPL so it could also go into the free gs.
I use it with the 660c but it works great, much better than the dj550
driver that is in the free gs.
Indeed,
Richard Harran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# Magic filter setup file for HP DeskJet 500 series color
# printers with only CMY cartridge installed.
and my printer has black CMY cartridges. Is the filter using the
colour cartridge to make black,
Probably not. The printer is
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My experience is that the Linux NFS server is broken when working with
Solaris NFS clients.
You are aware that there is a bug in the Solaris NFS clients when
interacting with the Linux 2.2 NFS deamon? Sun apparently has a patch
for that you should
Gunnar Schotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a problem using the ^-Key in Xemacs. When I use the key
there is a message in the status line dead circumflex not defined.
That is not the error messsage :-) There is a dead_circumflex in
there. I know what you mean now but in general it is very
Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is not the error messsage :-) There is a dead_circumflex in
dead-circumflex of course
(define-key function-key-map 'dead_circumflex compose-circumflex-map)
Thus (define-key function-key-map 'dead-circumflex compose-circumflex-map)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
I am reading debian-devel there occasionally and I can assure you this is
NOT a viable alternative.
1. The software cannot handle multipart/signed messsages :-(
2. The threaded display does not contain
Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yeah -- I actually recompiled today with egcc (enhanced GNU cc). You
want to use the --with-nucurses configure option (again, I don't
know how that translates to debian package building). In order to do
this, though, you need to install some type of
Daniel Elenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not for me, it didn't! According to dselect, I have libncurses4 and
libncurses4-dev installed.
If this happens with the pristine XEmacs sources then that would be a
bug. From configure.in
dnl Autodetect ncurses.
if test -z $with_ncurses; then
Daniel Elenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm aware that Xemacs has problems with GPM (if you put Xemacs to
sleep while GPM is running, things turn ugly).
Actually it is GPM (or better the libgpm library code) having problems
with glibc2. A patch is being worked on by the GPM maintainers.
But
Daniel Elenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, but xemacs in X works fine, it's when I run it in the console
that I get this problem. Is there a similar setting for the console
somewhere?
Just to be specific: Are we talking about XEmacs running on a true
linux console (i.e. terminal type is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman) writes:
Whenever I change the font size in xemacs 20.4, and do a save
options my font change is always lost. I checked the faq, and made
sure that Options-Frame Appearance-Frame-Local Font menu is not
checked. I also have the following line included in my
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/usr/src/XEmacs/xemacs20-20.4-5/lib-src/profile.c:51: too few arguments to
function `gettimeofday'
This sounds like a configure failure.
The source package is probably using some --with-bla-bla switches that
are incompatible with your hamm install and
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 05:34:46PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is the way to access several CD's from dselect at the same time?
I believe that there is no such way, unless you have several CD-ROM
drives so that you can mount all of
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, kdm actually does offer a nice piece of functionality that xdm
doesn't. It allows you to choose an X session at login (kde, window
maker, afterstep, etc), by providing a combo box that lets you choose the
parameter that gets passed to the
Wayne Cuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have xemacs20.x loaded on my Toshiba laptop.
First of all.
1. Questions like this are more likely to be answered in a more
specific form, like comp.emacs.xemacs
2. Before you post, do some research using the FAQ and dejanews and
you will see
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After A LOT of Altavista searching and reading through quite a few
different emacs FAQs,
Next time try looking closer to home :-)
C-h F will het you the FAQ. It is Q3.0.7. (the faq also should be on
www.xemacs.org).
A dejanews search on
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As far as advantages of xfsft over xfstt go,
The main advantage of xfsft for me is that it could be linked into the
XServer so that I do not need to run a seperate fontserver.
Jan
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Deniz Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I use a normal user`s gnuserv process as root? What I want to
do is: as root to use a normaluser`s emacs to edit some conf files.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth -f /home/deniz/.Xauthority extract - :0.0 | xauth
merge -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is a vision of mine that linux will be used more in schools,
Not only of yours. Some have even made it a reality.
See
http://www.heise.de/ct/schan/
That is german project supported by C'T. It allows schools to connect
to the internet using a specially prepared
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To edit faces in xemacs, not sure about emacs.
M-x edit-facesRET
(I haven't used it but it looks pretty easy.)
The recommanded way is M-x customize-faces. Which has the advantage
that it will still works in 21.0 and also works on both Emacsen. It is
less WYSIWYG.
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You may use fakeroot, so iii) is not really a limitation.
Aha..good. However I recall that make-kpkg puts explicit checks for
root. Those should be removed then.
Jan
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Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The checks are needed, because you have to be able to do a chown to
root
I still do not like checks like these, I'd rather have it bomb out at
the chown. But that is just side-issue.
But if you use fakeroot, make-kpkg will really believe you are root
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Manoj, thanks for make-kpkg I like it a lot. Especially the fact
that your own kernel a full fledged package.
Disadvantages of using make-kpkg
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i) This is a cookie cutter
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In xemacs for example I get dead-circumflex is not defined this makes
the use of the T-^ command ion gnus somewhat difficult :-)
http://www.math.ethz.ch/~vroonhof/emascs/x-compose.el.gz
Jan
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Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i guess what i'm looking for is a blend of xemacs/gnus and pine/elm.
Use gnus. Gnus is not only a news reader but also a mail reading
program. It excells at using mailling lists. Look in the info file
under Select methods Getting Mail.
The only thing it
Andy Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
have loads of features. however, i recently took the same data that
i was pumping into gnuplot and plopped it into MS Excel, then made
terrificly beautiful graphs (multi-column, bar, 3d, etc) with un-
believable ease, and then sent them into a PowerPoint
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3) Liability. The corporation is legally a person. If someone got
the bright idea to sue Debian (for whatever reason, including
frivolous), individuals would be liable without incorporation.
Incorporated, individual liability extends only to
[Sorry if this question has been adressed a zillion times but the
search function of the archive seems broken]
[Sorry again: I am reading this list through the web-archives and
august hasn't appeared yet. Could you CC me]
First of all let me thank everybody who has worked on Debian 1.3.1 for
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