Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

2006-12-20 Thread Jan Djärv
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: [t901353]alnx004[101]% pkg-config alsa --libs -L/usr/lib64 -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread [t901353]alnx004[102]% Config.log: configure:5642: result: no configure:5663: checking for pkg-config configure:5681: found /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:5694: result: /usr/bin/pkg-

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
M-TAB is not a Windows-specific problem, so it should be documented in the common part of the manual, if at all. Yes. But where? Perhaps the first place that M-TAB is documented as an Emacs command. What do you think? ___ emacs-pretest-bug

Wrong language choosen on w32

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
The wrong language is chosen on w32 for the tutorial: emacs -Q C-h t This shows the tutorial in Swedish. It should however be in English according to my setup on this Windows 2000 pc: Regional settings: Your local (location): Swedish Language setting: x Western Europe and United State (d

Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

2006-12-20 Thread Miles Bader
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've made my decision about this, and I don't want to argue it >> further. > > Does anybody agree with Richard on this one? Technically I prefer Jason's solution, but I think in practice it's an extremely minor issue. I've only ever had problems with

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:13:27 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org cmdproxy is IMO the _only_ level where this should be done, because we are talking about rewriting commands typed by the user, to make them palatable to the W

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:13:27 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > > cmdproxy is IMO the _only_ level where this should be done, because we > > are talking about rewriting commands typed by the user, to make them > > palatable to the Windows sh

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Lennart Borgman wrote: Why not set (buffer-locally) a different variable (such as "shell-uses-backslashes") when starting the inferior process? That seems more inline with what we usually do, rather than make a global variable buffer-local because we later (re)compute something that depends o

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Stefan Monnier wrote: The user might be testing new configurations for example and thereby changing shell-file-name (which now has only a global value). Since w32 is not that simple when it comes to shell that is a very likely situation, at least when the user has learned a bit more about emacs.

Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I don't see in which sense this is an example. After all, what harm would >> there be to use sh-mode for files named .BASH_PROFILE or .ZLOGIN ? >> Or even .bAsH_PROfilE ? >> It wouldn't be correct. These file names are case sensitive. > I've made my decision about this, and I don't want to a

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The user might be testing new configurations for example and thereby > changing shell-file-name (which now has only a global value). Since w32 is > not that simple when it comes to shell that is a very likely situation, at > least when the user has learned a bit more about emacs. But the user is

Re: segmentation fault

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
Emacs crashes now and then at random without reason. The error code is: Segmentation fault - Error 11 It doesn't do this when we run it, so we can't debug it on our own. Please use GDB to give us backtraces. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing li

Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
> I don't see in which sense this is an example. After all, what harm would > there be to use sh-mode for files named .BASH_PROFILE or .ZLOGIN ? > Or even .bAsH_PROfilE ? > It wouldn't be correct. These file names are case sensitive. I've made my decision about this

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Stefan Monnier wrote: Anywhere. The point is that those variables may change during the time the interactive shell exists (or perhaps a non-interactive shell). In this case I noticed it because the file completion code needs to know the value of shell-file-name. Hmm... interesting, I didn

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As Jury corrected me, the problem is not with supporting the new > format, the problem was that menus in the indices were not decorated > as normal menus since long ago. > I agree that we should consider revising this decision now, that the > machines are so much faster. We could also let jit/f

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anywhere. The point is that those variables may change during the time > the interactive shell exists (or perhaps a non-interactive shell). > In this case I noticed it because the file completion code needs to know > the value of shell-file-name. Hmm... interesting, I didn't think of this case.

Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

2006-12-20 Thread twurgl
[t901353]alnx004[101]% pkg-config alsa --libs -L/usr/lib64 -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread [t901353]alnx004[102]% Config.log: configure:5642: result: no configure:5663: checking for pkg-config configure:5681: found /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:5694: result: /usr/bin/pkg-config configure:5708: checki

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: It autocompletes in the shell buffer with "\" if the shell used has w32-shell-dos-semantics. When do you not want this? Personally, I _never_ want to see backslashes, even when I work in CMD. It makes me saner, since I happen to work simultaneously on Unix and on W

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 12/20/06, Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: emacs-lock.el seems like a poor man's protbuf.el. Some shortcomings (most, but not all, fixed in protbuf.el): - Locking a buffer should be a minor mode. - There's no emacs-lock entry in minor-mode-alist, so there's no visual clue in the

Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

2006-12-20 Thread Jan Djärv
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > Jan, > > I looked in /usr/lib/pkgconfigthe dir is empty. Are files supposed to be > in there? Where do said files come from? > > The new configure.in file did not find the asoundlib.h file... What does config.log look like (just the alsa relevant parts)? What d

Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

2006-12-20 Thread twurgl
Jan, I looked in /usr/lib/pkgconfigthe dir is empty. Are files supposed to be in there? Where do said files come from? The new configure.in file did not find the asoundlib.h file... -tom Jan Djärv <[EM

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:39:31 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > Can you please explain more exactly what problems you see with my patch? Backslashes are generally a problem in Emacs, because of their Lisp interpretation. I don't want us t

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:34:08 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Oh, my mind was not there again. There are only subtle but irritating difficulties with that. As I pointed at somewhere whe

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Lennart Borgman wrote: Can you please explain more exactly what problems you see with my patch? It autocompletes in the shell buffer with "\" if the shell used has w32-shell-dos-semantics. When do you not want this? Why do you think it has to be customizable? After taking a pause I see tha

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:34:08 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > Oh, my mind was not there again. There are only subtle but irritating > difficulties with that. As I pointed at somewhere when I began t

Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

2006-12-20 Thread Jan Djärv
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > Is this my system setup that should have this variable set? Or is > configure.in supposed > to find it and set it? Your setup (more specific /usr/lib/pkgconfig/alsa.pc) is supposed to have Cflags: -I${includedir} -I${includedir}/alsa I've added a configure check for

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:14:12 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > What is this new format? > > Yeah, what new format? The one you mention: > - [EMAIL PROTECTED]@^H] cookie included in index menus, so

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: That's because, to this day, there's no coherent set of Windows ports of GNU tools that is sufficiently free of bugs. Maybe instead of distributing patched Emacs binaries, you could use the energy to produce such a set of ports. Then the job of building Emacs would be so mu

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:14:09 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Ah, yes, sorry I did not see that the problem with M-TAB when Alt is used as meta is mentioned neither in the doc string fo

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:33:00 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I heard what you said, and I obviously disagree that it's a clear bug. It is no more a bug than the fact that Emacs uses only forward slashes in file-name comp

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:33:40 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > I actually started my distribution because it was so damned > difficult to get Emacs into a working condition on w32. I recently added > som

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:33:00 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > > > I heard what you said, and I obviously disagree that it's a clear bug. > > It is no more a bug than the fact that Emacs uses only forward slashes > > in file-name completion

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:14:09 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > Ah, yes, sorry I did not see that the problem with M-TAB when Alt is > used as meta is mentioned neither in the doc string for > w32-pa

Re: [want a bug fix for old fonts with emacs xft]

2006-12-20 Thread James Cloos
> "G" == [EMAIL PROTECTED] com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> I compiled emacs 23.0.0 from CVS and installed on on my G> centos 4.2 box. The default face looks very nice, but G> bold, italic, and some menu faces use old fonts I presume from this that you compiled and are running with the --en

Re: [want a bug fix for old fonts with emacs xft]

2006-12-20 Thread Felix Huang
The font can be specified in command line or .emacs configuration. In command line use -fn or -font to specify a font, and --enable-font-backend to enable use of Xft. In .emacs, use set-default-font and set-fontset-font to specify the default font face and fontset font faces of other encodings. fo

[want a bug fix for old fonts with emacs xft ]

2006-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I compiled emacs 23.0.0 from CVS and installed on on my Centos 4.2 box. The default face looks very nice, but bold, italic, and some menu faces use old fonts, which is the same problem posted at EmacsWiki on Aug 16. It is said that there is already a bug fix and it works well. Can I get the fix

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Juanma Barranquero wrote: I'm sure my usage pattern is very different from yours (I never print from inside Emacs, for example), but I don't have any trouble "getting Emacs into a working condition on w32". There are some rough edges. Which Is Not The Same Thing :) Yes, my fingers are probably

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 12/20/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe. I actually started my distribution because it was so damned difficult to get Emacs into a working condition on w32. I'm sure my usage pattern is very different from yours (I never print from inside Emacs, for example), but I don't

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Juanma Barranquero wrote: On 12/20/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess you mean logical relation? Causal. Arguing for bug fixes does not cause you having to do an alternate distribution. So the fact that you argue for bugs has no bearing on whether you do an alternate distri

ibuffer appropriating arrows

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
runs the command ibuffer-forward-filter-group Which is very disturbing, as I've always felt those arrow keys belong to me and I don't recall them having been hijacked before. Next thing you know they'll be usurping trusty C-f. Anyways, touch a right or left arrow and wham, you're sent to the bot

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 12/20/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess you mean logical relation? Causal. Arguing for bug fixes does not cause you having to do an alternate distribution. So the fact that you argue for bugs has no bearing on whether you do an alternate distribution or not. I do argue f

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2006-12-20 Thread Karl Berry
What is this new format? Yeah, what new format? The two latest changes to index formatting in Info output that I can recall were these: - line numbers included in index menus, so Info readers can go to the exact line of an entry, not just a node. Also in plaintext output. -

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Juanma Barranquero wrote: On 12/20/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, and I was not here then. Now instead I am arguing for correcting the bugs. No. You're arguing for correcting the bugs (don't we all?) and you're *also* distributing an alternate version of Emacs. They're se

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 12/20/06, Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, and I was not here then. Now instead I am arguing for correcting the bugs. No. You're arguing for correcting the bugs (don't we all?) and you're *also* distributing an alternate version of Emacs. They're separate actions with no caus

[want a bug fix for old fonts with emacs xft]

2006-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I compiled emacs 23.0.0 from CVS and installed on on my centos 4.2 box. The default face looks very nice, but bold, italic, and some menu faces use old fonts, which is the same problem posted at EmacsWiki on Aug 16. People say there is already a bug fix and it works well. Can I get the fix? T

Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-20 Thread Sascha Wilde
Michael Albinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sascha Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Seems to be still buggy: >> >> C-x C-f /et TAB >> >> results in: >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp ("etc/")) >> file-exists-p(("etc/")) [...] > Please try the appended patch

Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-20 Thread Sascha Wilde
Michael Albinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think you've introduced a new bug - >> >> lisp/net/ange-ftp.el.gz line 3980: >> (defun ange-ftp-file-name-completion (file dir) >> is being called like: >> (ange-ftp-file-name-completion "" "/a

Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

2006-12-20 Thread twurgl
RMS> That file is in the same directory, /usr/include/alsa/, on my machine RMS> too. It finds the file because of RMS> CFLAGS_SOUND= -I/usr/include/alsa RMS> in src/Makefile. Is that line different in your src/Makefile? Yes, mine is: CFLAGS_SOUND= RMS> If so, please debug why it is filled i

Re: Shell completion on w32 uses "/" instead of "\"

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:16:42 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org I really don't think we should try to open this can of worms now. Let's wait until after the release. As I said this is clearly a bug. I heard w

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 12/20/06, Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try it, emacs-lock.el does that... I'll certainly try it, I prefer to use standard packages. But the documentation is misleading. Not even the docstring of `emacs-lock-check-buffer-lock' discusses protecting against killing the buffer.

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Richard Stallman wrote: > M-TAB is taken by many modern window managers, so this is not an > MS-Windows only issue anymore. If it should be mentioned, that should > be in the main body of the manual, not in a Windows specific appendix. > Yes, that is right. Does not most

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Romain Francoise
"Juanma Barranquero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because they don't do the same thing. > - emacs-lock.el "prevents you from exiting Emacs if a buffer is locked" > - protbuf.el "protect buffers from accidental killing" > The killing I'm protecting buffers against is not exiting Emacs, but > bei

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Lennart Borgman
Richard Stallman wrote: > M-TAB is taken by many modern window managers, so this is not an > MS-Windows only issue anymore. If it should be mentioned, that should > be in the main body of the manual, not in a Windows specific appendix. > Yes, that is right. Does not most

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 12/20/06, Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any reason why you don't use the built-in package? Because they don't do the same thing. - emacs-lock.el "prevents you from exiting Emacs if a buffer is locked" - protbuf.el "protect buffers from accidental killing" The killin

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Michaël Cadilhac
Dieter Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michaël Cadilhac) writes: > >> Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Nope, it's time the *scratch* buffer should go for experienced user >>> me. >> >>> (kill-buffer "*scratch*");in .emacs >> >> I don't see what you're doing

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Romain Francoise
"Juanma Barranquero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use Noah Friedman's protbuf.el > (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ProtectingBuffers) This package looks very similar to emacs-lock.el, which is included in Emacs. Is there any reason why you don't use the built-in package? Thanks, --

Re: Fwd: Please add directory to Info-default-directory-list

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:49:51 +0100 > From: Mats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > True, you cannot be sure that cygwin is installed there, but then what about > the other directories on Info-default-directory-list? > > ("c:/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/" > "/usr/local/gnu/inf

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 12/20/06, Dieter Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that *scratch* is not necessary any longer (in 22) but I wish there were a command for re-creating it I use a variant of the following in my .emacs: (defun switch-to-scratch () (interactive) (let ((exists (get-buffer "*scratc

Re: M-\ does not work with prefix argument as documented

2006-12-20 Thread Dieter Wilhelm
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does this fix the bug? I don't want to add any features now. Yes it does fix the "bug", thank you. > > *** simple.el 04 Dec 2006 09:25:30 -0500 1.837 > --- simple.el 13 Dec 2006 13:56:29 -0500 > *** > *** 707,713 > (d

Re: M-\ does not work with prefix argument as documented

2006-12-20 Thread Dieter Wilhelm
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes I realised that and I wondered why he didn't use your patch, maybe > he has just overlooked it, I'll ask. > > I did not use that patch because I decided not to add a new feature. I'm sorry for the confusion I caused. (I thought it were ac

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-20 Thread Dieter Wilhelm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michaël Cadilhac) writes: > Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Nope, it's time the *scratch* buffer should go for experienced user >> me. > >> (kill-buffer "*scratch*");in .emacs > > I don't see what you're doing with that. AFAIK, the *scratch* buffer > never dies,

Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Albinus
Sascha Wilde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems to be still buggy: > > C-x C-f /et TAB > > results in: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp ("etc/")) > file-exists-p(("etc/")) > try-completion("et" (("etc/")) file-exists-p) > tramp-completion-handle-file-name-com

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
> M-TAB is taken by many modern window managers, so this is not an > MS-Windows only issue anymore. If it should be mentioned, that should > be in the main body of the manual, not in a Windows specific appendix. > Yes, that is right. Does not most users get hit by this prob

Broken "C-b remapped to ..." advice in tutorial.

2006-12-20 Thread Kim F. Storm
emacs -Q (global-set-key "\C-b" 'ignore) C-h C-t It now contains this misplaced advice (with C-b in read): C-x C-b List buffers ** The key C-b has been rebound, but you can use instead [More information] ** (notice also that the info line is >80 chars long). -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAI

Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
BTW, as `magic-mode-alist' takes precedence over `auto-mode-alist', perhaps we should make some of the regexps in `image-type-header-regexp' somewhat less trigger-happy. I'm thinking mostly of the one for pbm, which matches any file that starts with P[1-6]. Thanks for noticing

Re: scroll-other-window scrolls wrong window for vc-revert-buffer

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
Actually, the thing that doesn't work is: (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) Yes, but I don't think the problem with this is in y-or-n-p. y-or-n-p is meant for smaller decisions, and yes-or-no-p for larger decisions which might have more serious consequences. I don't think we should add

Re: M-\ does not work with prefix argument as documented

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
Yes I realised that and I wondered why he didn't use your patch, maybe he has just overlooked it, I'll ask. I did not use that patch because I decided not to add a new feature. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http:/

Re: Calc history out-of-date

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
Thanks for noticing this error. I think the fix should make the current state of affairs more prominent, not relegate it to a footnote. I just did that. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
I think it's a bug: it looks like Emacs doesn't support the new format of Index menus introduced with the latest versions of Texinfo. What is this new format? We can make Emacs 22 support it, but people will keep using Emacs 21 for a long time. So this could be a long-lasting problem.

Re: menus: enable revert-buffer-with-coding-system from dired

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
Type M-x dired RET, then M-` o m c and you'll see it. Thanks, now I do see it. But I think it is correct that this is blanked out. Reverting a Dired buffer makes sense, but reverting it with a different coding system does not. This isn't a matter of reading a textual directory and decod

Re: Sound problem with SUSE x86_64

2006-12-20 Thread Richard Stallman
prefix, when I run make it fails to compile sound.c, because if can't find asoundlib.h. If I hardcode the path to the file, all compiles fine and sound files play. Please don't call a file name a "path". In GNU we use the term "path" only for lists of directories to search. That fi

Fwd: Please add directory to Info-default-directory-list

2006-12-20 Thread Mats
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 20, 2006 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Please add directory to Info-default-directory-list To: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> True, you cannot be sure that cygwin is installed there, but then what about the other director

Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:46:19 + > From: Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Discussing an idea in a useful way does not include continuing to > > pressure me after I've made a decision. > > > I'm sorry if you felt pressured FWIW, I

Re: image.el doesn't associate image-mode with .JPG files

2006-12-20 Thread Kim F. Storm
Jason Rumney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Stallman wrote: >> > The answer is no, and I've chosen a different solution. >> > Please drop the subject. >> > >> >> If a developers mailing list cannot be used for discussing >> development ideas, then I think I might as w

Re: Please add directory to Info-default-directory-list

2006-12-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:04:37 +0100 > From: Mats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If I add this to my .emacs, I can use emacs to browse my cygwin info files: > > (setq Info-default-directory-list (append Info-default-directory-list > (list > "c:/cygwin/usr/sha

Re: Can't display Japanese text in menu bar

2006-12-20 Thread Katsumi Yamaoka
I'm sorry for the late response. > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kenichi Handa wrote: > I found what is wrong. In x_load_resources (xrdb.c), > default values of several X resources are set, but fontSet > is not set. But, in x_update_menu_appearance (xfaces.c) > which is called when you set `menu'

Please add directory to Info-default-directory-list

2006-12-20 Thread Mats
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