Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> "JC" == Joe Corneli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (B (BJC> Eg. the first time \pi turns into a greek (BJC> symbol, (B (BI disagree with the whole argument except for having some (Bdocumentation that tells you how to replace an old behaviour if you (Bdon't like the new. 

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Chong Yidong
> And another thing: when I type " or ', Emacs seems to think that I'm > trying to input a special character. If I type 'a, I get an angstrom > symbol, even though (again) I'm editing python code and I'm just > trying to type a string that starts with a. I don't see this. It really sounds like yo

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread David Kastrup
Greg Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Today when I was editing source code and tried to type pi/2 in a >>> buffer, Emacs replaced it with some special character that appeared >>> as "1/2" as a single character. >> Unlikely. Let me name a few thing

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gian Uberto Lauri) writes: >> "JC" == Joe Corneli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JC> Eg. the first time \pi turns into a greek > JC> symbol, > > I disagree with the whole argument except for having some > documentation that tells you how to replace an old behaviour if you

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Joe Corneli
> "JC" == Joe Corneli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> Eg. the first time \pi turns into a greek JC> symbol, I disagree with the whole argument except for having some documentation that tells you how to replace an old behaviour if you don't like the new. Tha

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:15:33 -0800 > From: Greg Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > None of the above? I've never (intentionally) used Leim, and I didn't > type C-\ before the /2. I had font-lock-mode on, but wasn't in Latex > mode. I was in Python mode, and I typed

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.03.2005 um 08:15 schrieb Greg Novak: I don't get that here. What did you switch on to get it? This suddenly appeared after updating software, in this case on an OS X machine. I didn't enable any switch (myself), I just got it. Hello Greg! Could you look into the *Messages* buffer? I noticed

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Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:30:39 +0100 > > It would probably be a bad idea to list every minor change. The file > would get so large no one would have the patience to read it all. No, it won't, since all user-visible changes are already listed there. Th

Re: Postscript Print Buffer

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:22:10 +0100 > From: Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I avoided diving into this since some times now - now I want to "crack > the nut", so to say - and let me start with asking for help to eliminate > a problem first: Whenever I now try to print via Postscr

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Joe Corneli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:30:42 -0600 > > I think that a *lot* of new features do not get listed in the NEWS > file. All user-visible new features should be there, so please report any omissions as bugs (to the appropriate forums/mailing lists). ___

Re: left brackets insert both

2005-03-26 Thread David Hansen
On 25 Mar 2005 08:45:27 -0800 Shug Boabby wrote: > excellent! i had found the exact setup once rgb had pointed me to the > function call, but cheers david! > > however, it is sometimes annoying that a single type of a bracket does > this... any chance i could set it only to work on double taps?

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:05:31 -0800 > From: Greg Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Starting with Emacs21, the program has been creeping toward becoming a > WYSIWYG editor, instead of sticking to its roots as a _TEXT_ editor. > > Some of these features are cool and useful: Eg, I use the ability to

Re: Postscript Print Buffer

2005-03-26 Thread Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:22:10 +0100 > > From: Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I avoided diving into this since some times now - now I want to "crack > > the nut", so to say - and let me start with asking for help to eliminate > > a

Re: Postscript Print Buffer

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Comments: In-reply-to "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >message dated "Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:42:29 +0200." > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:17:37 +0100 > From: Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > '(ps-font-family (quote Palatino)) > '(ps-lpr-command "lp")

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Thomas A. Horsley
>If these two examples are the only problems that bug you, it seems >like you are jumping to conclusions: the cause of your trouble is your >own customizations, and perhaps also a few packages that are not part >of the normal Emacs distribution. Perhaps not his own customizations: I know (from my

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Joe Corneli
> While I'm not against implementing these wacky new feature, I request > that they remain _off by default_. Since you do like some of the ``wacky'' new features, please give a list of those which you request to be left off by default. We cannot possibly guess them, and the two pr

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Joe Corneli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:11:40 -0600 > >This feature is off by default as well. Something in your .emacs >turns it on. > > Saying that things are "off by default" and "something in your .emacs > turns them on" is not really what anyone needs to

Bad iso-2022-jp encoding (was: Is Emacs becoming Word?)

2005-03-26 Thread Reiner Steib
On Sat, Mar 26 2005, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp | X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.50.1 > [...] strange gliphs as à yust [...] ÂCarramba! [...] A few more, a > smaller number indeed, uses Ï [...] Something is wrong either with your Emacs or VM. T

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2005-03-26 Thread Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > '(ps-font-family (quote Palatino)) > > '(ps-lpr-command "lp") > > '(ps-multibyte-buffer (quote bdf-font-except-latin)) > > '(ps-paper-type (quote a4)) > > '(ps-printer-name-option "") > > > > I guess that's what you mean, right? > > I don't know,

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2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:53:13 +0100 > From: Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Any other value is treated as nil. > > ..snip. > > so, the default setting is `nil' ... and Umlauts ARE latin characters, so > I would wonder why `nil' wouldn't fit well. Because "Latin" doesn'

Re: coding system

2005-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> However it seems that the coding system for keyboard input is latin-1. > This is a unibyte coding system; why does emacs see a multibyte charater > when I press é? To what corresponds this 2281? Inside Emacs, there's no such thing as unibyte characters and a multibyte characters. There are jus

Re: Postscript Print Buffer

2005-03-26 Thread Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you see in print instead of Umlauts? %% Show vacant box for characters which don't have appropriate font. > Because "Latin" doesn't mean "Latin-9". Ah ... ok, I am learning ... > > Ok, anyway, setting to > > `bdf-font-except-latin' didn't chan

Re: tab stops - redisplay

2005-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Suppose I have a file that contains tab (^I) characters. > Is there a way to control which display columns each of > those tabs on the line will correspond to? I am thinking > of something like tab-stop-list, except this is for display > (like tab-width), not for input. The only thing availab

Re: sharing list structure

2005-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> OK, I think I've got the idea now. But still, I'm surprised that `setq' > is not among the list of "destructive functions". What's that about? You're right: `setq' is also destructive. But it's slightly different (the difference has to do with the notion of "pointer aliasing"). In Scheme des

Re: Error: Symbol's value as variable is void

2005-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> produces a window headed off by "lisp-font-lock-keywords-1's value is > shown below." No source file. Wow, weird. Hmm... checking here... can't reproduce it. I guess you're using Emacs-21.[1234] and it's been fixed in the Emacs-CVS version. Stefan ___

Re: VC in emacs 21.3

2005-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In my continuing quest to move from Intel/Linux emacs 20.7 to 21.3 > From a C buffer, these commands > C-x v = vc-diff > C-x v l vc-print-log > C-x v g vc-annotate > C-x v ~ vc-version-other-window > In 20.7. they all pop up a password dia

Re: Error: Symbol's value as variable is void

2005-03-26 Thread Joe Corneli
> produces a window headed off by "lisp-font-lock-keywords-1's value is > shown below." No source file. Wow, weird. Hmm... checking here... can't reproduce it. I guess you're using Emacs-21.[1234] and it's been fixed in the Emacs-CVS version. No, I think I just misread -- didn't

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Greg Novak
* Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is off by default, so you should look into your customizations > and find what turns it on. > ... > This feature is off by default as well. Something in your .emacs > turns it on. > ... > So I think the response was appropriate, and precisely what

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread David Kastrup
Greg Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is off by default, so you should look into your customizations >> and find what turns it on. >> ... >> This feature is off by default as well. Something in your .emacs >> turns it on. >> ... >> So I think

Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?

2005-03-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:08:04 -0800 > From: Greg Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > So I think the response was appropriate, and precisely what he > > needed to hear, since he should look for the reasons in his own > > customizations. > > This is the fourth time in this thread that I've been tol

Re: coding system

2005-03-26 Thread B.T. Raven
"Stefan Monnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > However it seems that the coding system for keyboard input is latin-1. > > This is a unibyte coding system; why does emacs see a multibyte charater > > when I press é? To what corresponds this 2281? > > Inside Emacs,