Re: cursor custom group: bad labels and help text

2005-12-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I agree with you about these tags. Please install your patch. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: cursor custom group: bad labels and help text

2005-12-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
M-x customize-group cursor I agree that these tags are bad. 4. "Blink Cursor Alist" - The help doesn't explain what OFF-STATE is - is it a function? What does it do? How does it work? Not clear. I will put in the following. It could use more info, but I don't know any more answe

Re: tooltip custom group: duplicate labels

2005-12-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
The tag "Use echo area" is used twice in the same customization buffer. Its first occurrence comes from emacs/lisp/tooltip.el: (defcustom tooltip-use-echo-area nil "Use the echo area instead of tooltip frames for help and GUD tooltips." :type 'boolean :tag "Use Echo

Re: tooltip custom group: duplicate labels

2005-12-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Nick Roberts wrote: Variable names are generally chosen to be self explanatory. Since the hyphens are removed in the node name, I guess you mean variable name. its hard to tell whether it's derived from the variable name or comes from a tag. This just seems to provide another level

Re: tooltip custom group: duplicate labels

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Roberts
> Now after adding the group name `gud' to the GUD tooltips customize > variables, the group `gud' contains the following misleading labels: > > GUD modes: Show Value > > GUD buffers predicate: Show Value > > Among other GUD-related options they don't indicate that really they > are use

Re: tooltip custom group: duplicate labels

2005-12-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> > The tag "Use echo area" is used twice in the same customization buffer. > > > > Its first occurrence comes from emacs/lisp/tooltip.el: >... > > and the second occurrence comes from emacs/lisp/progmodes/gud.el: >... > > I propose to remove :tag from all GUD tooltip options to reveal

tab widths change when font size changes

2005-12-10 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Symptoms: I started Emacs like this: ./src/emacs -Q -fn '-*-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-Medium-r-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' /tmp/stats I maximzed it by clicking the window manager's "maximze" button. I noticed that the columns weren't lined up -- for example, in the second-to-last column, whose entr

tooltip custom group: duplicate labels

2005-12-10 Thread Nick Roberts
> The tag "Use echo area" is used twice in the same customization buffer. > > Its first occurrence comes from emacs/lisp/tooltip.el: ... > and the second occurrence comes from emacs/lisp/progmodes/gud.el: ... > I propose to remove :tag from all GUD tooltip options to reveal their > tru

Re: find-file sometimes doesn't

2005-12-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> In the last week, sometimes maybe 1 in 20 times, "C-x C-f (find-file) >> RET" won't find the given file. However, the symptom is that if I'm >> editing buffer "foo", and run find-file to open file bar, instead of >> getting two equally-sized windows containing "foo" and "bar", I get two >> "foo"

Re: SPC no longer completes when minibuffer-completing-file-name is t

2005-12-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> * minibuf.c (keys_of_minibuf): Just unbind SPC in >> Vminibuffer_local_filename_completion_map rather than forcing it >> explicitly to the same binding as the global map. > BTW, shouldn't exactly the same change be made also for > `Vminibuffer_local_must_match_filename_map'? Indeed, I missed t

Re: Menu item for delete-selection-mode (was: DEL key doesn't kill mouse-dragged region)

2005-12-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
transient-mark-mode is currently disabled by default, and has a menu item to easily enable it. delete-selection-mode is disabled too, but has no menu item to enable it. What about adding it to the Option menu? delete-selection-mode is no less useful than transient-mark-mode,

Re: completion in find-file

2005-12-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
The patch below adds references that are similar how normal keymaps are referenced from the documentation of completing-read. This change is ok too. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

tooltip custom group: duplicate labels

2005-12-10 Thread Juri Linkov
M-x customize-group RET tooltip RET C-s Use echo area C-s C-s The tag "Use echo area" is used twice in the same customization buffer. Its first occurrence comes from emacs/lisp/tooltip.el: (defcustom tooltip-use-echo-area nil "Use the echo area instead of tooltip frames for help and GUD toolti

Re: cursor custom group: bad labels and help text

2005-12-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> M-x customize-group cursor > > 1. "Delay in seconds." is a poor tag for `blink-cursor-delay' - it >says nothing about "cursor" or "blink", and gives no indication of >which Lisp option is involved. I thought that the "friendly" was >supposed to sytematically reflect the Lisp name (tha

emacs-unicode-2: crashed while reading mail

2005-12-10 Thread Zhang Wei
Emacs (emacs-unicode-2) crashed while reading mail with gnus. It's a junk mail. Is that mail useful? [EMAIL PROTECTED] gdb emacs GNU gdb 6.3-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or