[Bug 1366451] Re: mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen

2014-09-21 Thread Jason Spiro
mirabilos, I wonder if you might be willing to please put some shell function like this into the dot.mkshrc in upstream mksh CVS? It seems to me a fairly uncontroversial change. Then, next time you push the latest mksh version into Android gerrit, perhaps you could include this change as part of

[Bug 1366451] Re: mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen

2014-09-16 Thread Jason Spiro
In various comments, Thorsten Glaser wrote: This is actually a good idea. Thank you :) Maybe they should tag those questions [mksh] on SE and I should subscribe that tag there. A lot of the people who type help might not actually have questions about mksh: they may instead have questions

[Bug 1366451] Re: mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen

2014-09-16 Thread Jason Spiro
By the way, do here-documents work okay on modern versions of Android? Or is there no place for mksh to write the required temporary files to make them work? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1366451] Re: mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen

2014-09-12 Thread Jason Spiro
Nothing against your intent, or beginners, or something, but Android is really not the OS one should be learning a Unix shell in. You are correct. Still, if someone owns only a Windows box and an Android phone, they might end up starting their learning on Android anyway. And mksh is first and

[Bug 1366451] Re: mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen

2014-09-11 Thread Jason Spiro
In comment #4, Thorsten Glaser wrote: “help” is aliased to “man” in most beginner-friendly GNU/Linux distributions, in /etc/profile usually. Not in beginner-unfriendly environments, such as the Android command- line environment. By responding to the word help with the 50 bytes of text I

[Bug 1366451] Re: mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen

2014-09-07 Thread Jason Spiro
A flag to display the version is not historically customary in Unix programs. The adoption of -V (not -v which is verbose) is recent and not normally used. I stand corrected. GNU --long-options have nothing to do with a Unix program. Touché. The Android user would just type “set“, or

[Bug 1366451] Re: mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen

2014-09-06 Thread Jason Spiro
** Summary changed: - mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen + mksh -v should display mksh's version number, plus the attached chunk of text, onscreen ** Also affects: mksh (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects:

[Bug 59293] Re: Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

2013-05-24 Thread Jason Spiro
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48806 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48806 B) I suggest that dosfsck should not check a clean filesystem unless someone passes a force command-line parameter. On second thought, this would be foolish. Dosfsck can never know for sure that a

[Bug 59293] Re: Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

2013-05-23 Thread Jason Spiro
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48806 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48806 Dear Philip Susi, why did you mark this bug report as a duplicate of bug #48806? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 59293] Re: Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

2013-05-23 Thread Jason Spiro
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48806 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48806 == Dosfstools and reading the dirty flag == A few changes[1] to dosfstools, made just before 3.0.14 was released, mean that dosfstools can now read a FAT partition's boot sector's dirty flag. == Do all three

[Bug 463307] Re: Traced program terminates with SIGTRAP

2012-10-29 Thread Jason Spiro
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #282068 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282068 ** Also affects: ltrace (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282068 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 463307] Re: Traced app crashes because ltrace 0.7.0 can't trace multi-threaded processes

2012-10-29 Thread Jason Spiro
** Summary changed: - Traced program terminates with SIGTRAP + Traced app crashes because ltrace 0.7.0 can't trace multi-threaded processes ** Changed in: ltrace (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 463307] Re: Traced app crashes because ltrace 0.7.0 can't trace multi-threaded processes

2012-10-29 Thread Jason Spiro
Thank you for your report. Your bug is the same bug as Debian bug #282068. For information on when the fix will be released, and a workaround you can use for now, please see http://bugs.debian.org/282068#10. Note that the latrace tool mentioned there has been in Ubuntu since Ubuntu 11.10

[Bug 99634] Re: Please move cperl micro-docs to top of the cperl-mode.el file

2011-01-23 Thread Jason Spiro
I've just set Launchpad to ignore the results of the bug watch, and to instead show this bug as New. ** Changed in: emacs Importance: Unknown = Undecided ** Changed in: emacs Status: Fix Released = New ** Changed in: emacs Remote watch: debbugs.gnu.org #1621 = None ** Tags added:

[Bug 99634] Re: Please move cperl micro-docs to top of the cperl-mode.el file

2011-01-20 Thread Jason Spiro
Yes, the upstream status listed above is wrong. This is because of a Launchpad bug which era has reported already. The bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/507603 (checkwatches on non- debian debbugs instances do not work). -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 86209] Re: the Next button in wizards, not the Finish button, should be default

2009-11-26 Thread Jason Spiro
Yes, I still want it changed. -- the Next button in wizards, not the Finish button, should be default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 86209] Re: the Next button in wizards, not the Finish button, should be default

2009-11-26 Thread Jason Spiro
Forwarded to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296311 upstream. ** Bug watch added: Eclipse bugs #296311 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296311 ** Also affects: eclipse-eclipsers via https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296311 Importance: Unknown

[Bug 289987] Re: Please reduce onscreen display of unknown-keycode messages; they're annoying

2009-11-01 Thread Jason Spiro
No idea about the kernel. No need to apologize; I know that most people who post in bug reports are volunteers. But may I suggest that you avoid using an automatic bot to ask everyone to keep their open bugs up to date. Instead, you should close as wontfix all but the bugs that you have time to

[Bug 289987] Re: Please reduce onscreen display of unknown-keycode messages; they're annoying

2009-09-03 Thread Jason Spiro
Dear all: A recent comment to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141505 says that this still affects the newest Fedora, which is Fedora Core 11. And the issue has existed for over two years now. So the issue is almost surely not fixed. As for the bot's request for me to retest this

[Bug 94382] Re: Use the entire disk is unclear; please rename to Erase and use the entire disk

2009-06-14 Thread Jason Spiro
Patch attached. It makes the single string change I proposed in my last comment. I have not tested the patch. Of course please run debconf-updatepo after applying the patch. ** Attachment added: Patch to change the string Use the entire disk to Erase and use entire disk

[Bug 94382] Re: Use the entire disk is unclear; please rename to Erase and use the entire disk

2009-04-07 Thread Jason Spiro
** Summary changed: - Guided - use entire disk is not clear enough for normal users + Use the entire disk is unclear; please rename to Erase and use the entire disk -- Use the entire disk is unclear; please rename to Erase and use the entire disk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94382 You

[Bug 94382] Re: Guided - use entire disk is not clear enough for normal users

2009-04-07 Thread Jason Spiro
This bug bit me today. I accidentally erased my friend's main HDD and all the digital photos on it. In Feisty beta, you wrote: Guided - use entire disk. That text is not clear enough. In Jaunty beta, you write: Use the entire disk. Still not clear enough. I think you should write:

[Bug 99634] Re: Please move cperl micro-docs to top of the cperl-mode.el file

2008-12-17 Thread Jason Spiro
Now forwarded upstream ( to http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/1621 ) ** Also affects: emacs Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Please move cperl micro-docs to top of the cperl-mode.el file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99634 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 294947] Re: Character set conversion bug that can cause files to be truncated; patch available

2008-11-11 Thread Jason Spiro
http://bugs.debian.org/504767 shows that this is fixed in Debian medit/0.9.2-1.1 . http://packages.ubuntu.com/medit shows that medit/0.9.2-1.1 has already arrived in Jaunty. Could you please push out medit/0.9.2-1.1 as an update to Intrepid too, since it fixes a critical bug? -- Character set

[Bug 295820] [NEW] Please update to new Debian x11-apps which will include an xedit with the very serious data loss bug fixed

2008-11-08 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: x11-apps There is a new xedit out[1], xedit-1.1.2, available from http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/. It fixes a very serious data loss bug[2]. It will get into Debian's x11-apps package within a week or so[3]. It would be great if

[Bug 294947] [NEW] Character set conversion bug that can cause files to be truncated; patch available

2008-11-06 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: medit This critical bug report was copied and pasted from http://bugs.debian.org/504767 : [1] says a new version of medit has been released (0.9.4) which fixes some critical data-loss bugs found by lonefox. I asked Yevgen (nick: muntyan) on Freenode

[Bug 244276] Re: Please add a Guided Tour menu command

2008-11-03 Thread Jason Spiro
Romain, no. I think it would be better prefer to also have a link on the Help menu. That's because I bet many users look only on the Help menu, and not also on the splash screen, for help. (I am also forwarding my comment to the upstream thread.) -- Please add a Guided Tour menu command

[Bug 289987] [NEW] Please reduce onscreen display of unknown-keycode messages; they're annoying

2008-10-27 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: I use a Microsoft wireless keyboard. When I am in console mode, my kernel keeps showing messages exactly like to those described in the Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=141505 : atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd9 on

[Bug 285734] [NEW] [PATCH] Tell users how to undo accidental Ctrl+Alt+F1 presses in /etc/issue

2008-10-18 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: base-files Newbies can switch away from Xorg to a different virtual terminal by accident. If they do that, they won't know where they are, and won't know how to return. The patch below fixes the problem. Could you please apply it to /etc/issue? If

[Bug 285734] Re: [PATCH] Tell users how to undo accidental Ctrl+Alt+F1 presses in /etc/issue

2008-10-18 Thread Jason Spiro
Someone on Freenode #ubuntu-bugs thought that /etc/issue is shown when people ssh in. But they were wrong. In reality, sshd does not show anyone the file's contents unless you specify Banner /etc/issue in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. ** Summary changed: - [PATCH] Tell users how to undo accidental

[Bug 279973] Re: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-10 Thread Jason Spiro
** Also affects: console-setup (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #501654 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501654 ** Also affects: console-setup (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501654

[Bug 279973] Re: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
I recently tested pressing PrintScreen inside several uncommonly-used text editors while running in console mode. The key seems to make a few of them, including NLED by Evan Weaver, become unresponsive forever. Vim and Nano are unaffected though. P.S. I will soon be forwarding this bug upstream

[Bug 279973] Re: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-08 Thread Jason Spiro
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #501590 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501590 ** Also affects: console-data (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501590 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- PrintScreen key causes many apps to

[Bug 279973] [NEW] PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: console-data On Ubuntu 8.04, in console mode, the PrintScreen key sends SIGQUIT to the running application. Depending which application you are running, this may cause it to dump core. So this single wrong keystroke can cause data loss. Most text

[Bug 279623] Re: Crap

2008-10-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Alvaro, please direct such complaints to http://hendrix.mozilla.org, it saves the Ubuntu folk time. Also try Konqueror, it's not bad. -- Crap https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279623 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 279623] Re: Crap

2008-10-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Don't forget: Each Fx upgrade adds a lot of new features. Most are invisible, like phishing protection and the more-reliable sqlite storage system. -- Crap https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279623 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 279973] Re: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Does this affect the package kbd also? I thought it did but now I'm not sure. Will Intrepid use keymaps from the package kbd anyway? How about later releases of Ubuntu after Intrepid? ** Also affects: kbd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- PrintScreen key causes many

[Bug 279973] Re: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Followup to my last comment: No, this does not affect kbd. The problem is only in console-data. In Debian console- data-1.07/keymaps/i386/include/linux-keys-bare.inc, keycode 99 = Control_backslash. But in Debian kbd-1.14.1/data/keymaps/i386/include /linux-keys-bare.inc, keycode 99 = Compose.

[Bug 279973] Re: PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode

2008-10-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Marking invalid in package kbd as per my last comment. ** Changed in: kbd (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- PrintScreen key causes many apps to suddenly die if you are running in Linux text mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279973 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 244276] Re: Please add a Guided Tour menu command

2008-07-11 Thread Jason Spiro
** Bug watch added: Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Also affects: emacs via mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: + [ This bug has been forwarded upstream. You can see the upstream thread + at

[Bug 244276] [NEW] Please add a Guided Tour menu command

2008-06-30 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs22 Please add a command to the Help menu to show the user the Emacs guided tour. I see two options for how it could work: 1. You could make the command launch the system default web browser and point it to http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/tour/ 2. Or

[Bug 244276] Re: Please add a Guided Tour menu command

2008-06-30 Thread Jason Spiro
I just manually forwarded this feature request to emacs-devel at gnu dot org using my email program. I mentioned in the manual forward that it was forwarded from here. I hope the message will make it to the mailing list. Email subject was: Please add a Guided Tour menu command ** Also affects:

[Bug 90328] Re: file-roller leaves gigantic hidden files on disk when it fails due to lack of disk space

2008-06-30 Thread Jason Spiro
This happened to me when I tried to extract archive but I didn't have enough space and the temp file filled my disk. I tried looking for it but can't find it. It's like 400-500 MB. Anyone knows where I can find it to delete it ? Thanks Tome, please try asking your question at

[Bug 221505] [NEW] firefox crash [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-24 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: firefox I don't know the steps to reproduce. Sorry. I had 2 tabs open: Gmail and I think http://www.google.ca/search?q=rent+roomhl=enclient=firefox-arls=com.ubuntu :en-US:officialhs=GZ7start=10sa=N (or maybe it was

[Bug 221505] Re: firefox crash [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-24 Thread Jason Spiro
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13862843/CoreDump.gz ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13862844/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13862845/Disassembly.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 90328] Re: file-roller leaves gigantic hidden files on disk when it fails due to lack of disk space

2008-01-29 Thread Jason Spiro
Sparhawk, I don't know. But I know that the kleansweep-helper command- line tool that comes with Kleansweep has been able to find temp files left over from disk-full-upon-compression ever since earlier this year, but the Kleansweep GUI cannot. Use the -e option (search for temporary files). But

Re: [Bug 95232] Re: in w3m, C-x b doesn't show an ido prompt even when ido-mode is enabled

2007-12-09 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/11/19, Marco Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's fixed in hardy or upstream yet ? I don't know. -- Jason Spiro: corporate trainer, web developer, IT consultant. I support Linux, UNIX, Windows, and more. Contact me to discuss your needs and get a free estimate. +1 (613) 668-6096

[Bug 95228] Re: Typing cd /t then pressing Tab in eshell causes an annoying popup

2007-10-02 Thread Jason Spiro
Launchpad Janitor wrote on 2007-09-21: [Expired for emacs-snapshot (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] I have now changed the bug status back to Incomplete. Can someone please confirm the bug? ** Changed in: emacs-snapshot (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Incomplete

[Bug 95228] Re: Typing cd /t then pressing Tab in eshell causes an annoying popup

2007-08-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Phil, I didn't try it with emacs -q. But your guess was right. I have ido-mode, iswitchb-mode, and ffap-bindings all enabled. (I really should rsync my .emacs file onto my website, or at least I should attach it here. Unfortunately my laptop has no Internet connectivity ATM.) -- Typing cd /t

Re: [Bug 95228] Re: Typing cd /t then pressing Tab in eshell causes an annoying popup

2007-07-05 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/7/5, Áron Sisak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, of course it has not been reverted, only that I started emacs instead. But it is still true that I tried to reproduce this and failed. Gutsy x86, emacs-snapshot version: 1:20070529-1 Emacs version 22.0.990.1 Sadly I can't try to repro this

[Bug 86522] Re: Please add a global-viper-mode command to viper

2007-07-05 Thread Jason Spiro
I just forwarded this bug to Michael Kifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] It should hit the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list soon. -- Please add a global-viper-mode command to viper https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86522 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 57379] Re: end users should not have to access BIOS whatsoever to install Ubuntu

2007-07-05 Thread Jason Spiro
to allow the Ubuntu liveCD's Windows portion to install SBM so that users can boot from CD without changing the boot order in their BIOS. Interesting idea. Dustin, I will forward your message to the ubuntu-devel list right now. -- Jason Spiro: Linux consultant, web developer, Windows corporate

[Bug 122929] Battery menu should have an allow suspend option that can be unchecked

2007-06-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: At Ottawa Linux Symposium, it was common to see people walking around with their laptops half-open because they didn't want them to sleep. Whether wardriving, Web serving, or music playing, some people do not want their PCs to sleep. Please add a right-click option to the

[Bug 122930] Re: Please add Suspend my PC after the lid is closed for X minutes/hours option

2007-06-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Please also see my other suspend-related feature request: Bug #122929 (Battery menu should have an allow suspend option that can be unchecked). I would love it if you fulfilled my other feature request too. :) -- Please add Suspend my PC after the lid is closed for X minutes/hours option

[Bug 122929] Re: Battery menu should have an allow suspend option that can be unchecked

2007-06-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Please also see my other suspend-related feature request: Bug #122930 (Please add Suspend my PC after the lid is closed for X minutes/hours option). I would love it if you fulfilled my other feature request too. :) -- Battery menu should have an allow suspend option that can be unchecked

[Bug 122930] Please add Suspend my PC after the lid is closed for X minutes/hours option

2007-06-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Please add an option to Gnome's power options: Standby my PC after the lid is closed for X minutes/hours Then you can set a number of your choice. For example, if I do not want my laptop to suspend for 30 seconds after it is closed, I can choose this option. But Gnome

[Bug 122932] Please provide a list of $$$ donors to the About Gnome dialog box.

2007-06-28 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Please provide a list of people who have donated 50 cents or more to Gnome or Ubuntu in the About Gnome dialog box. This would encourage people to donate money. ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Please provide a list

Re: [Bug 92963] Re: battery_low_percentage popup and other issues (GConf problem?)

2007-05-24 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/5/24, Sebastien Bacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you still get the bug? Yes, I still get the bug exactly as before. But now I noticed another problem: my root partition is a little corrupt. For example, one of my emacs packages now doesn't load because what used to be the

[Bug 73840] Re: Revert Debian's removal of the Emacs info files and several other files

2007-04-08 Thread Jason Spiro
Hi mwolson: In apt, Recommends denotes quite a strong dependency. For example, the Debian Policy Manual section 7.2 says: `Recommends': This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found

[Bug 73840] Re: Revert Debian's removal of the Emacs info files and several other files

2007-04-06 Thread Jason Spiro
Michael Vogt said on 2006-12-15: For the ease of merging debian changes later I will just make emacs21-common depend on emacs21-common-non-dfsg. This will bring back the info files. Could you please use Recommends instead of Depends? (You see, emacs21 -common-non-dfsg contains important

[Bug 13272] test

2007-04-06 Thread Jason Spiro
test -- ignore -- Ignore, test bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/13272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 95258] Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xorg

2007-04-02 Thread Jason Spiro
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg == Background == Every day, many users press Control+Alt+Backspace by accident. Here is some example evidence of how this is so are at the bottom of this bug report. == Feature request == Xorg must somehow request

[Bug 95258] Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xorg

2007-04-02 Thread Jason Spiro
** Description changed: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg == Background == Every day, many users press Control+Alt+Backspace by accident. Here is some example evidence of how this is so are at the bottom of this bug report. == Feature request == Xorg must somehow request

[Bug 82417] Re: When resizing a certain table column's width, nvu segfaults at 0xb667b099 in NSGetModule

2007-04-02 Thread Jason Spiro
If this issue affects Dapper ( I don't remember if I was on Dapper or Edgy when I filed this bug, sorry :-( ) would it be worth fixing there? Sorry for off-topic : Or perhaps it would be worth it to remove nvu from Dapper and add Kompozer (a third-party distribution of Nvu with bug fixes) and

[Bug 102158] When you use electric-help-mode and viper, the C-x key causes most keys on the keyboard to stop working.

2007-04-02 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot == Steps to repro == 1. Put this in your .emacs file: ;; Electric-help-mode (require 'ehelp) (define-key global-map \C-h 'ehelp-command) (define-key global-map [help] 'ehelp-command) (define-key global-map [f1] 'ehelp-command) ;;

[Bug 99634] Please move cperl micro-docs to top of the cperl-mode.el file

2007-03-31 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot I wanted to set Emacs to use cperl-mode instead of perl-mode, but I didn't know how. It turns out the answer was in the cperl-tips section on line 710 of the file. Please move the cperl micro-docs from the middle of the cperl-mode.el

[Bug 94354] Re: [Feisty] Tab-completion doesn't work with emacs-snapshot's built-in tramp

2007-03-31 Thread Jason Spiro
** Summary changed: - [Feisty] Tramp doesn't work with emacs-snapshot + [Feisty] Tab-completion doesn't work with emacs-snapshot's built-in tramp -- [Feisty] Tab-completion doesn't work with emacs-snapshot's built-in tramp https://launchpad.net/bugs/94354 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 94354] Re: [Feisty] Tab-completion doesn't work with emacs-snapshot's built-in tramp

2007-03-31 Thread Jason Spiro
I am also experiencing this bug. To reproduce the bug: 1. Press C-x C-f 2. Type /ftp:ftp.mozilla.org/pu then press TAB It should complete the word pu to pub but doesn't. -- [Feisty] Tab-completion doesn't work with emacs-snapshot's built-in tramp https://launchpad.net/bugs/94354 --

[Bug 87901] Re: Please sync emacs-snapshot 1:20070223-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

2007-03-26 Thread Jason Spiro
The motu-uvf team just replied to bug 95216. They won't consider the request unless: * a new .deb is already prepared * and we provide all the info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#head-9523bc4076ff011324d67cddc97969ec609618d6 (which I think I can prepare.) Is it possible

Re: [Bug 59293] Re: Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT

2007-03-25 Thread Jason Spiro
Cool, thanks for writing a spec! But maybe we should edit the spec to have it recommend the changes we would need made to the kernel for optimal dirty flag support? -- Dosfsck Run On Every Boot on FAT https://launchpad.net/bugs/59293 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 95216] Re: Please grant a freeze exception for emacs-snapshot

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Assigning to motu-uvf. ** Changed in: Ubuntu Assignee: (unassigned) = MOTU UVF Team -- Please grant a freeze exception for emacs-snapshot https://launchpad.net/bugs/95216 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 95216] Re: Please grant a freeze exception for emacs-snapshot

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Note: Unfortunately I don't think a new emacs-snapshot package is yet prepared. Could you please provide advance permission anyway? -- Please grant a freeze exception for emacs-snapshot https://launchpad.net/bugs/95216 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 95216] Please grant a freeze exception for emacs-snapshot

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: (Background: GNU Emacs upstream doesn't release often. They've been stuck at version 21 for years now. But emacs 22 is now in pretest and is feature-frozen and is stable enough that numerous people now use it for their daily text editing needs. As an example of how stable

[Bug 95216] Re: Please grant a freeze exception for emacs-snapshot

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
** Description changed: (Background: GNU Emacs upstream doesn't release often. They've been stuck at version 21 for years now. But emacs 22 is now in pretest and is feature-frozen and is stable enough that numerous people now use it for their daily text editing needs. As an example of

[Bug 87901] Re: Please sync emacs-snapshot 1:20070223-1 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Michael, I just filed Bug #95216 to ask for a freeze exception. Note, though, that a new Ubuntu package was already supposed to be be prepared before I asked, but I asked anyway and stated I didn't think one was prepared. Was one prepared? -- Please sync emacs-snapshot 1:20070223-1 (universe)

[Bug 95228] Typing cd /t then pressing Tab in eshell causes an annoying popup

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot In emacs-snapshot-gtk[1] eshell, when I want to go to my /tmp directory, I always do the same as I am used to doing bash. But this causes a weird behavior (an annoying popup) in eshell. == Steps to reproduce == 1. Start Emacs 2. Type:

[Bug 95232] in w3m, C-x b doesn't show an ido prompt even when ido-mode is enabled

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot In emacs-snapshot-gtk[1] I always use ido-mode, which does a few things, including making C-x b call ido-switch-buffer. But when I am in a w3m buffer, C-x b calls w3m-e21-switch-to-buffer instead, . calls its own buffer-switching

[Bug 95239] No wajig commands work in eshell

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: I don't know if this is an emacs-snapshot bug or a wajig bug or what, so I'm assigning it to both. Please reject it from your package if it's not a bug in your package. == Steps to reproduce == 1. Start Emacs 2. M-x eshell RET 3. wajig --help RET 4. wajig update RET 5.

[Bug 95239] Re: No wajig commands work in eshell

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Oops, I switched 2 headings in my report. I apologize. I meant to say: == EXPECTED results == All those wajig commands work == ACTUAL results == After typing each wajig command, you get the error: /bin/sh: Illegal option - -- No wajig commands work in eshell

[Bug 95244] C-h r says Info file emacs does not exist

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot-gtk In Feisty emacs-snapshot, when I click Help Read the Emacs manual or press C-h r, I am shown an empty *info* buffer. The *Messages* buffer says: Info-find-file: Info file emacs does not exist. So I must instead type C-h i, then

[Bug 95259] Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xgl

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
See also bug 95258, the equivalent bug for Xorg instead of Xgl. -- Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xgl https://launchpad.net/bugs/95259 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 95258] Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xorg

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg == Background == Every day, many users press Control+Alt+Backspace by accident. Here is some example evidence of how this is so are at the bottom of this bug report. == Feature request == Xorg must somehow request confirmation before

[Bug 95258] Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xorg

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
See also bug 95259, the equivalent bug for Xgl instead of Xorg. -- Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xorg https://launchpad.net/bugs/95258 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 95259] Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should request confirmation before killing Xgl

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xgl == Background == Every day, many users press Control+Alt+Backspace by accident. Here is some example evidence of how this is so are at the bottom of this bug report. == Feature request == Xgl must somehow request confirmation before

[Bug 95261] Emacs freezes when I combine JDEE and flymake

2007-03-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot-gtk == Steps to reproduce == 1. apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk 2. apt-get install jde 3. touch /tmp/foo.java 4. Start Emacs 5. M-x load-library RET flymake RET 6. M-x eval-expression RET (add-hook 'find-file-hooks

Re: [Bug 92963] Re: battery_low_percentage popup and other issues (GConf problem?)

2007-03-22 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/20, Sebastien Bacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you try that command after a restart? I rebooted, tried the same command, and got the same output (below). What else can I try? Btw: If anyone would like to VNC or ssh(1)+kibitz(1) into my system to try and troubleshoot, I can arrange

[Bug 92963] battery_low_percentage popup and other issues (GConf problem?)

2007-03-16 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: I have used Edgy for a few months. These problems started a few weeks ago, likely after a dist-upgrade. First, the slow-keys (bounce-keys?) accessibility feature enabled itself. Then I disabled it. Then other problems started. For all users on my laptop: - I get an error

[Bug 92963] Re: battery_low_percentage popup and other issues (GConf problem?)

2007-03-16 Thread Jason Spiro
Note: I think the Owner of /tmp/orbit-j2 is not the current user message is because of additional troubleshooting steps I have taken since, which include deleting my ~/.gcon* and ~/.gno* and deleting certain things in /tmp. My username is j, but I made another user j2. -- battery_low_percentage

Re: [Bug 57379] Re: end users should not have to access BIOS whatsoever to install Ubuntu

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/6, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please do not assign bugs to others without their request I apologize. in particular, this is an idea with several possible solutions which are being considered I am curious: what are some of the other solutions you're considering? -- end users

[Bug 90328] file-roller leaves gigantic hidden files on disk when it fails due to lack of disk space

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: file-roller == Steps to reproduce == 1. Open File Roller 2. Create a new .tar.gz file on an almost-full disk (If you have a USB flash disk that is almost full, that will work fine.) 3. Add so many files to it that it will take up all free space on your

[Bug 90332] aspell should detect repeated words

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: aspell It would be great if aspell detected duplicate words. MS Word's spell checker has supported this for ten years, and WordPerfect even had this way back in the DOS version. It is time that aspell caught up with these apps. :-) ** Affects: aspell

[Bug 73859] Re: Installation of Kleansweep on Ubuntu (Gnome) fails to install kdesu

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
I had this issue too on my Edgy system. Confirming. ** Changed in: kleansweep (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- Installation of Kleansweep on Ubuntu (Gnome) fails to install kdesu https://launchpad.net/bugs/73859 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 90450] [patch] make kleansweep detect leftovers file-roller leaves when out of disk space

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kleansweep Here is a patch to the kleansweep-helper perl script. It adds a new option, -e, that cleans temporary files. Currently, -e only matches Gnome file-roller temporary files that get left over when you try to create a tarball on a disk that's

[Bug 90450] Re: [patch] make kleansweep detect leftovers file-roller leaves when out of disk space

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
** Attachment added: The patch http://librarian.launchpad.net/6668175/kleansweep-helper-script_find-file-roller-leftovers.patch ** Description changed: Binary package hint: kleansweep Here is a patch to the kleansweep-helper perl script. It adds a new option, -e, that cleans

[Bug 90454] please make kleansweep group duplicated files by the directories they were in

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kleansweep Forwarded from http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=28631 Comment from gollum (http://kde- apps.org/usermanager/message.php?username=gollum) on: 11/01/2006, 19:46 ... [When using Remove Duplicate Files], I believe the tool should

[Bug 90454] Re: please make kleansweep group duplicated files by the directories they were in

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
This is related to bug 90453, kleansweep threatens to delete all duplicated files, including both sets of duplicates. -- please make kleansweep group duplicated files by the directories they were in https://launchpad.net/bugs/90454 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 90453] Re: kleansweep threatens to delete all duplicated files, including both sets of duplicates

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
The feature requester made a suggestion of how to fix this: Bug 90454, please make kleansweep group duplicated files by the directories they were in. -- kleansweep threatens to delete all duplicated files, including both sets of duplicates https://launchpad.net/bugs/90453 -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 90453] kleansweep threatens to delete all duplicated files, including both sets of duplicates

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kleansweep Forwarded from http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=28631 Comment from gollum (http://kde- apps.org/usermanager/message.php?username=gollum) on: 11/01/2006, 19:46 Kleansweep is quite nice already, but the Remove duplicate file has a

[Bug 90450] Re: [patch] make kleansweep detect leftovers file-roller leaves when out of disk space

2007-03-07 Thread Jason Spiro
** Description changed: Binary package hint: kleansweep Here is a patch to the kleansweep-helper perl script. It adds a new option, -e, that cleans temporary files. Currently, -e only matches Gnome file-roller temporary files that get left over when you try to create a tarball on

[Bug 57379] Re: end users should not have to access BIOS whatsoever to install Ubuntu

2007-03-05 Thread Jason Spiro
I am taking the liberty of reassigning this to ubuntu-cdimage, since they are the ones who can take care of this if they so choose. ** Changed in: Ubuntu Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu CD Image Team -- end users should not have to access BIOS whatsoever to install Ubuntu

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