Troubles running ncurses/readline'd programs.

1997-10-08 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, Some programs compiled/linked with ncurses/readline libs seem to have troubles running under Emacs. Do you have troubles when, for example, running bash (ncurses'd & readline'd), zsh (ncurses'd) under Emacs? Does anyone know how to cope with this? Using Debain 1.2, Emacs 19.34. thanks -mlt

*emacs*: Why 'Invalid format operation %l'?

1997-09-02 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, When I 'C-h v' for variables, or 'C-h f' for functions, etc. I often get 'Invalid format operation %l'. Do you know what happened? Using Debian 1.2, Emacs 19.34 thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [

Exchange mouse button 2 & 3 in X.

1997-08-30 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, I'd like to swap button 2 and 3 of mouse when in X, such that the paste button is on the rightmost button. thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

*ES shell* where to get job control patch?

1997-08-26 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, I remember there's patch or else to make 'es' have job control ability. Do you know where to get it? thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

How to change the cursor size in text mode?

1997-08-21 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, Do you know any easy way to change the cursor size in text mode? It is often that I don't know where the cursor has gone after doing a search in a editor. It's easy to achieve it in DOS by calling 'INT 10'. thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

*jed*: How to remove the top _MENU_ line?

1997-08-19 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, How to remove the top line -> '*** Debian GNU/Linux *** ...' In emacs, I can do: '(menu-bar-mode -1)' thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

What is '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?

1997-07-29 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for? When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads' file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/'; but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it. '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50calc.el' looks like those file such as '

What is '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?

1997-07-29 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for? When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads' file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/'; but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it. '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50calc.el' looks like those file such as '

[man pages, groff] How to set a wrap point?

1997-07-17 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, When groff formats a man page file like 'bash.1', the formatted main text will be centered. Do you know how to change this so I can wrap the text at a certain column (e.g. at column 75). Centered text is good for eyes to view on a monitor because there are more space left around.

hope to see ML to be included in future.

1997-06-28 Thread sca . bbs
Hi, I'm looking forward to seeing these softwares to be included in the future distributions of Debian. SML/NJ, Standard ML of New Jersey. O'Caml, Objective Caml. thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mai