While on the subject of dired...

1994-09-30 Thread Daniel Finster
Is anyone working on updating tar-mode to work like EFS Dired? I really enjoy getting a file via EFS using Dired, having it decompressed and loaded into tar-mode automatically; I just don't enjoy the schism in interface between the two packages.

BBBDB annotation in GNUS

1994-08-08 Thread Daniel Finster
Is it possible to get BBDB to annotate my GNUS *Summary* buffer _after_ kill, rather than before? There are two newsgroups I read that I kill everything except for ~5% of the articles daily, and I thought it'd be nice to not have to wait for BBDB to annotate all those articles, most of which are

How to avoid duplication of strings?

1994-06-29 Thread Daniel Finster
I have the following code in my .emacs, to record what mailing lists and newsgroups I've seen various people on. It works well, but I dislike having to keep the regexp describing the mailing lists I belong to twice. I tried assigning the string to a variable, but I guess my syntax wasn't right.

Turning off version-control in BBDB buffer

1994-06-28 Thread Daniel Finster
I have emacs set to save the last two version of all files I edit, because this is the way I like it. However, I see no reason why my almost 500k BBDB database needs this treatment as well. I tried the following: (add-hook 'bbdb-mode-hook '(lambda () (make-local-variable

BBDB popup window shrinkage in GNUS, other problems

1994-06-28 Thread Daniel Finster
About a month ago I installed BBDB, and it was working great (my database is now over 2000 people). However, recently I've been having problems between it and GNUS. The main problem is the BBDB pop-up window keeps shrinking to just 1 line, then goes back to 5, and starts again. Also, I cannot g