gnus (Emacs-related?) lässt sich nicht richtig installieren

2004-08-08 Thread Lars Weissflog
Hallo Debianer, da hängt noch was: Immer wenn ich irgend was apt'e, meckert er ein einzelnes Paket beim Konfigurieren an: ---8--- Setting up gnus (5.10.6-6) ... install/gnus: Ignoring emacs. install/gnus: Byte-compiling for xemacs21...found xemacs21 ..emacs-package-install:

Re: Emacs related.

2001-12-09 Thread Henrik Enberg
Jeffrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, It is said that emacs is single threaded. * Why is it so ? Mostly because no one has gotten around to write a multithreaded version, it is decidedly non-trivial. * Is there any work in progress to make it multithreaded ? Sort-of, there is some

Re: Emacs related.

2001-12-09 Thread David Z Maze
jeffrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J It is said that emacs is single threaded. Yup. J * Why is it so ? J * Is there any work in progress to make it multithreaded ? J * Is there any disadvantage or disadvantages if it is J multithreaded. Well, aside from the buzzword-coolness, there's nothing

Emacs related.

2001-12-08 Thread Jeffrin
Hello all, It is said that emacs is single threaded. * Why is it so ? * Is there any work in progress to make it multithreaded ? * Is there any disadvantage or disadvantages if it is multithreaded. -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.msservices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: emacs related

2001-11-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:49:33PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Oh, and btw, the tab-width variable has nothing to do with inserting tabs in text. It has to do with how tabs that are already in the file are displayed, if you want to change the default from 8. In other words, changing my tab

Re: emacs related

2001-11-23 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: In general, the variable tab-width controls the distance from one tab stop to the next. Note that it is always buffer-local, so if you want it to be global, you'll have to make a function that sets it and add that function to

Re: emacs related

2001-11-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Or you can: (setq-default tab-width 4) I've found that this isn't always enough. If you want a real tab, you usually have to get emacs to call the

Re: emacs related

2001-11-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Or you can: (setq-default tab-width 4) I've found that this isn't always enough. If you want a real tab,

Re: emacs related

2001-11-23 Thread Brian Nelson
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:49:36PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Or you can: (setq-default tab-width 4) I've found that this isn't always enough. If you want a real tab,

Re: emacs related

2001-11-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, November 16, Michael P. Soulier did write: On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 07:56:37PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Jeffrin wrote: I think you want auto-fill-mode. You may also want to look at some of the Emacs Lisp variables having to do with auto-formatting, such as

Re: emacs related

2001-11-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 07:56:37PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Jeffrin wrote: I think you want auto-fill-mode. You may also want to look at some of the Emacs Lisp variables having to do with auto-formatting, such as sentence-end and sentence-end-double-space. Does anyone know how to manage

Re: emacs related

2001-11-16 Thread Alan Shutko
Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to manage tabs properly in text mode? I hit the tab in various places, and I get different indents every time. Right. In text modes, hitting tab will usually line the cursor up with one of the words on the previous line. If

Re: emacs related

2001-11-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Does anyone know how to manage tabs properly in text mode? I hit the tab in various places, and I get different indents every time. Also, sometimes I seem to get an auto-indent effect when the line wraps, and sometimes I don't. This indent is huge. I hit

emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Jeffrin
Hello all Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a full stop ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread DvB
Jeffrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a full stop ? hmm... run some kind of replace-regexp maybe? Don't know how much emacs regexps support though. Personally, I'd probably just run it through perl -e

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrin wrote: Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a full stop ? Your question isn't clear. Do you just want a regex search-and-replace to fix up a file, or are you trying to place controls on interactive editing, or are you trying to fix up auto-formatting

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Jeffrin
Is it possible to do auto-formatting related to my need. -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Matthew Dalton
DvB wrote: Jeffrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all Can anything be done in emacs to eliminate space after a comma or a full stop ? hmm... run some kind of replace-regexp maybe? Don't know how much emacs regexps support though. Personally, I'd probably just run it

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrin wrote: Is it possible to do auto-formatting related to my need. I think you want auto-fill-mode. You may also want to look at some of the Emacs Lisp variables having to do with auto-formatting, such as sentence-end and sentence-end-double-space. Craig

Re: emacs related

2001-11-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Nov-2001 Jeffrin wrote: Is it possible to do auto-formatting related to my need. unrelated, but flyspell is also really cool.

Re: emacs related

2001-09-30 Thread Paul Huygen
Ben Hartshorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: How to fix emacs such that it does not typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? [..] I don't know how to apply [set-fill-column] to the current buffer, because it requires an arguments (the number of characters per

emacs related

2001-09-29 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
How to fix emacs such that it does not typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: emacs related

2001-09-29 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:42:55PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: How to fix emacs such that it does not typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? I think what you're looking for is the 'set-fill-column' and 'auto-fill-mode' option. The trick is applying it. Someone on this list can

Re: emacs related

2001-09-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Ben Hartshorne: On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:42:55PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: How to fix emacs such that it does not typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? I think what you're looking for is the 'set-fill-column' and 'auto-fill-mode' option. The trick is