Re: Link in define-key doc broken

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
The link to Extended Menu Items in the doc string for define-key is broken. I think the reason is that it fails to specify which manual. Please try adding `(elisp)' to the node name. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http

Re: redisplay

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
(progn (new-frame) (redisplay t) (x-popup-dialog t '("Foo" ("Bar" . 1 I tried this but it didn't fail -- the new frame was not empty. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Re: read-number: Ask again if error reading input

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
Thanks. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: flyspell and abbrev

2007-04-21 Thread Glenn Morris
For now, I installed the flyspell change. I suggest we think about the wider issue after the release. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: [unicode-2] whitespace-auto-cleanup always replaces leading spaces with tabs

2007-04-21 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:23 +0200, martin rudalics wrote: > > I set it in custom-set-variables; another likely scenario, I would think. > > whitespace.el has this form > > (defcustom whitespace-check-indent-whitespace indent-tabs-mode > > which, as Miles explained, gets evaluated when whitespac

Re: flyspell and abbrev

2007-04-21 Thread Glenn Morris
Richard Stallman wrote: > I think this is an issue for aspell or ispell (whichever one you are > using). Not for Emacs. No, I think rather that flyspell should downcase abbrevs before defining them, like define-mode-abbrev does. Beyond that, given the way expand-abbrev treats case, does it make

Re: flyspell and abbrev

2007-04-21 Thread emacs user
I think this is an issue for aspell or ispell (whichever one you are using). Not for Emacs. thanks for the prompt response. actually I thought this might be an issue of dabbrev and emacs. flyspell is only the way in which the abbrev is defined in my bug report. So if I create an abbrev suc

pending-undo-list is not buffer local

2007-04-21 Thread Lennart Borgman (gmail)
The variable pending-undo-list is used by for example undo-start and undo-more. The doc strings says that you should first call undo-start and then you can call one or several times undo-more later. If those calls are done in different buffers it looks like trouble to me. Should not pending-un

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread martin rudalics
Please install your patch. Done. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: patch for locate.el when called with prefix arg

2007-04-21 Thread Luc Teirlinck
(1) revert-buffer does not work in *Locate* buffers that result from C-u locate RET or C-u locate-with-filter RET. Note that, without my very latest suggested patch, you _can_ actually correctly revert such buffers using `C-u g'. Obviously, this is not a very clean feature. (But it is fu

Re: patch for locate.el when called with prefix arg

2007-04-21 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Richard Stallman wrote: (2) While C-u locate RET gives the prompt "Run locate (like this): ", locate-with-filter gives the same prompt, "Locate: ", regardless of whether or not a prefix arg is used. The behaviour of C-u locate-with-filter is analogous to C-u locate

Re: dired-virtual-mode doc

2007-04-21 Thread Glenn Morris
Johan Bockgård wrote: > The doc string for dired-virtual-mode speaks about the nonexistent > variable `buffer-contents-mode-alist'. Also, the regexp is wrong (the > "/?+" part) and a bunch of backslashes are missing. Thank you; installed. ___ emacs-p

Re: patch for locate.el when called with prefix arg

2007-04-21 Thread Luc Teirlinck
(1) revert-buffer does not work in *Locate* buffers that result from C-u locate RET or C-u locate-with-filter RET. We have not generally implemented reverting for search command output. Locate implements a revert-buffer-function, locate-update. The reported bug can be annoying

Re: Link in define-key doc broken

2007-04-21 Thread Glenn Morris
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: > The link to Extended Menu Items in the doc string for define-key is broken. Thanks; fixed. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
You have found a real bug. Please install your patch. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: python.el

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
> What's the reason for disregarding my legal concerns about that > work? Maybe this message is meant for some specific recipients who will already know what this is about. If not, please could you explain in more detail what you mean? Precisely which work has potential legal

Re: patch for locate.el when called with prefix arg

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
(1) revert-buffer does not work in *Locate* buffers that result from C-u locate RET or C-u locate-with-filter RET. We have not generally implemented reverting for search command output. (2) While C-u locate RET gives the prompt "Run locate (like this): ", locate-with-filter gi

Re: Bottom part of Extended Menu Items badly formatted

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
I will try to improve this. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: flyspell and abbrev

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
I think this is an issue for aspell or ispell (whichever one you are using). Not for Emacs. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread Reiner Steib
On Sat, Apr 21 2007, martin rudalics wrote: >> [subr.el] >> ;; These are the XEmacs names: >> (defalias 'point-at-eol 'line-end-position) >> (defalias 'point-at-bol 'line-beginning-position) > > I think it's for Emacs < 20 compatibility. I think the comment is correct. XEmacs prefers point-at-[b

dired-virtual-mode doc

2007-04-21 Thread Johan Bockgård
The doc string for dired-virtual-mode speaks about the nonexistent variable `buffer-contents-mode-alist'. Also, the regexp is wrong (the "/?+" part) and a bunch of backslashes are missing. 2007-04-21 Johan Bockgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * dired-x.el (dired-virtual-mode): Doc fix. ***

Re: No doc string for `read-number'

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Stallman
`read-number' should have a doc string. Ok, thanks. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread martin rudalics
>>Here are other incorrect uses of kill-* functions in lisp/progmodes: >> >>cc-cmds.el:859: (kill-region (progn (forward-line 0) (point)) >>perl-mode.el:653: (kill-region (point) eol)) >> >>And there's a bunch of suspicious kill-line/kill-word/kill-region in >>man

flyspell and abbrev

2007-04-21 Thread emacs user
hello, I don't know if this is a bug or some option that I need to set, but it's been there for a while: emacs-22.0.98 on gnu-linux redhat emacs -Q open a new file t.txt turn flyspell on set flyspell-abbrev-p to t type Cho the word is highlighted as a spelling mistake. use middle mouse to save

Bottom part of Extended Menu Items badly formatted

2007-04-21 Thread Lennart Borgman (gmail)
The bottom part of (info "(elisp) Extended Menu Items") is badly formatted which makes it quite hard to understand. The very last paragraph should belong to :filter. In GNU Emacs 22.0.98.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-04-19 ___ emacs-pretest-

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread martin rudalics
cc-mode doesn't like `line-beginning-position' and `line-end-position'. [subr.el] ;; These are the XEmacs names: (defalias 'point-at-eol 'line-end-position) (defalias 'point-at-bol 'line-beginning-position) I think it's for Emacs < 20 compatibility. ___

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread Johan Bockgård
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Bockgård) writes: > Here are other incorrect uses of kill-* functions in lisp/progmodes: > > cc-cmds.el:859: (kill-region (progn (forward-line 0) (point)) > perl-mode.el:653: (kill-region (point) eol)) > > And there's a bunch of suspicious

Link in define-key doc broken

2007-04-21 Thread Lennart Borgman (gmail)
The link to Extended Menu Items in the doc string for define-key is broken. In GNU Emacs 22.0.98.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-04-17 ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretes

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread Johan Bockgård
martin rudalics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cc-mode doesn't like `line-beginning-position' and > `line-end-position'. [subr.el] ;; These are the XEmacs names: (defalias 'point-at-eol 'line-end-position) (defalias 'point-at-bol 'line-beginning-position) Here are other incorrect uses of kill-*

Re: patch for locate.el when called with prefix arg

2007-04-21 Thread Matt Hodges
> Chong Yidong writes: > Thanks. I've checked the patch in. (I see Luc made further changes.) There are still a few problems: (1) revert-buffer does not work in *Locate* buffers that result from C-u locate RET or C-u locate-with-filter RET. (2) While C-u locate RET gives the prompt "R

Re: visiting certain .c file adds to kill ring

2007-04-21 Thread martin rudalics
> With my recent cvs build or the debian snapshot, and starting from > "emacs -Q", visiting the file foo.c below with > >C-x C-f foo.c > > leaves the first line in the kill ring, > >C-y >=> inserts "/* hello */ > > where I hoped it would leave the kill ring alone. (In particular it's

Re: cannot activate font-lock-mode

2007-04-21 Thread martin rudalics
Sorry for not answering earlier but I just retrieved your response from gmx's spam folder. > So, what is now the recommended way to set file-specific font-lock > keywords using file-local variables? If this has changed, it should be > specified in the NEWS. I can write an entry once I understan