Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Kim F. Storm
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, C-g. That's a relic from ASCII and TTY days. These days it really doesn't make sense on non-TTY platforms -- it's more like a bad joke. Also, it works by causing something

Re: Segmentation violation in display_string

2005-05-24 Thread Milan Zamazal
KFS == Kim F Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KFS Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CVS Emacs dated 2005-05-23 often crashes with segmentation violation. KFS Can you provide some additional info: KFS p frame_title_ptr $1 = 0x0 KFS p frame_title_buf $2 = 0x8d7d250

Re: The trademark PostScript is incorrectly spelled

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Stallman
In the File menu the items starting with Postscript Print are incorrectly spelled. I think incorrectly is too strong a word for this, since it is up to us to decide how to write this. However, I would not mind if it were changed. The correct spelling is PostScript, could be

Re: Segmentation violation in display_string

2005-05-24 Thread Kim F. Storm
Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the info. Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KFS Can you rerun emacs with the following patch installed, to see if it catches KFS the error earlier. I think you actually meant if (frame_title_ptr == NULL) in both the

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, C-g. Also, it works by causing something almost indistiguishable from an error. Of course we could distinguish them. I do think it's important to do something when execution is interrupted by C-g so the user can tell the

Re: The trademark PostScript is incorrectly spelled

2005-05-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.05.2005 um 12:28 schrieb Richard Stallman: The correct spelling is PostScript, could be PostScript or PostScript too GNU policy is not to do that. This was a joke. ``PostScript is a sufficiently exact term. -- Greetings Pete How many Microsoft engineers does it take to

Ediff/Merge problem?

2005-05-24 Thread Richard.G.Bielawski
It used to be, when using merge, if I hit 'n' and there were no more differences I'd get a message saying something to the effect thatthere are no more differences. Now I get this while: ediff-copy-B-to-C: Bad diff region number, 8. Valid numbers are 1 to 7 I'm just assuming that this

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Kevin Gallagher
Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, C-g. Also, it works by causing something almost indistiguishable from an error. Of course we could distinguish them. I do think it's important to do something when execution is interrupted by C-g so the user can tell the

Re: Segmentation violation in display_string

2005-05-24 Thread Milan Zamazal
KFS == Kim F Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KFS No, I actually meant what I wrote :-) OK :-), I'm sorry. When I apply the unchanged patch, Emacs crashes at the same place and with the same backtrace as without the patch. Regards, Milan Zamazal -- Here is my advice, don't try to

arrow down cursor jumps several lines

2005-05-24 Thread xah lee
behavior change request: * when pressing the arrow down key, the cursor sometimes jumps by several lines. For an argument for changing this behavior, please see this essay The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines at http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/hard-wrap.html Thanks. Xah [EMAIL

OSX:

2005-05-24 Thread David Reitter
This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the

C-h H crashes GNU Emacs

2005-05-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Hello! When I use an Adobe Courier based fontset (its description from M-x describe-fontset is approximately 50 KB as raw-text-unix) that I am trying to prepare from many different scalable fonts for code specific code ranges à la (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec

Re: arrow down cursor jumps several lines

2005-05-24 Thread Lute Kamstra
xah lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: behavior change request: * when pressing the arrow down key, the cursor sometimes jumps by several lines. For an argument for changing this behavior, please see this essay The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines at