Re: Sending e-mail via system's mail client from sendmail.el

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I can't check the details, but the overall idea seems like the right thing. Thanks for writing it. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: etc/refcard.tex update.

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
What I actually meant was: is there a new binding for the function formerly bound to C-h C-i. I checked with on old version of Emacs that C-h C-i ran info-lookup-symbol and that that function is now bound to C-h S. So maybe we should now just list: \key{find specified funct

Re: Task done?

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
It's not clear what the TODO entry means, so I don't know. longlines and refill do different things, so it seems incorrect to think of longlines as replacing refill; Why do you think that is not correct? To me they seem to be doing the same job, just in different ways.

Re: Sending e-mail via system's mail client from sendmail.el

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I can't check the details, but it seems like basically the right thing. > To activate: > (setq send-mail-function 'mailclient-send-it) Forgot this: Maybe it would be better to include this in mailclient.el? No, because just loading a Lisp file shouldn't change the behavior of Emacs.

Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
> However, it won't fit in Emacs Lisp, because it can't be parsed > backwards. Yes, but there are 4HclubH4s for every taste. Alas, that won't help, because symbols can end in `H4'. Imagine trying to explain that design decision t

Re: More bugs in Custom themes

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
but I think we already discussed the proper conflict resolution method. What I suggested was that the themes are listed in an order, and later themes override earlier themes. It is a little bit more complex than that. The user can enable or disable themes, save optio

Re: More bugs in Custom themes

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I rewrote most of the themes code in custom.el. I did not have time to debug it ;-(, but I verified that Emacs still at least builds and runs. Whether or not it is bug-free, at least now it should have a clear design that ought to make fixing any remaining bugs straightforward. What will take the

Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
>> (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory fname) dir) >> >> >> should return fname back. It is like an identity, right? If not, >> what is the way to *always* correctly do an expand-file-name ? > > This works for me: > (concat (file-name-as-directory "~/tmp")

calc undo fails?

2005-07-10 Thread Miles Bader
What's the deal with undo in calc? It's recently stopped working... [just says "No further undo information available"] -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest? __

Re: etc/refcard.tex update.

2005-07-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> What I actually meant was: is there a new binding for the function > formerly bound to C-h C-i. I checked with on old version of Emacs > that C-h C-i ran info-lookup-symbol and that that function is now > bound to C-h S. So maybe we should now just list: > > \key{find specified function or va

Re: etc/refcard.tex update.

2005-07-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> What still bothers me in `Query Replace' is that `C-M-%' is not > mentioned. Lute added a comment saying that it can't be typed on > consoles. But is it a reason for majority of users (X, xterm, > MSWindows, MacOS) to not know about `C-M-%'? Users who can't type > `C-M-%' o

Re: obsolete comment in tool-bar.el

2005-07-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
This concerns the documentation for the two new :initialize functions. They are kind of internal and hence I believe that maybe they do not need to be mentioned in the already very long NEWS. On the other hand, maybe it might be useful to mention them in the Elisp manual, for instance because peop

custom-reevaluate-setting docstring

2005-07-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
I propose the following small changes to the `custom-reevaluate-setting' docstring. I believe that "default value" might be somewhat confusing, since it is often used as the opposite of "buffer local value". I believe that "standard value", the standard name used by Custom, is less ambiguous. I

Re: grep.el regexp

2005-07-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> I've collected a few examples in the file attached below. The section > `grep ???' contains examples deduced from regexps in `grep-regexp-alist'. > Could someone recognize what grep produces them? > > The first three seem to follow the GNU spec for column numbers > and ranges. I don

Re: Diff mode faces

2005-07-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> This part affects non-TTY platforms, while leaving the TTY colors > intact. Why? I don't think there's any problem with Diff-mode colors > on displays that support many colors, are there? Maybe the following patch is more correct: Index: lisp/diff-mode.el =

Re: The MH-E repository

2005-07-10 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Hi Bill, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please forgive the delay--I was waiting to have a chance > > to make some of you members of the Emacs project myself. > > Instead I decided I will find someone else to do that. > > Thank y

Re: How to avoid insert anything without switching to read only

2005-07-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
David Kastrup wrote: I don't understand why it is worth doing in the first place. Why not just let those characters self-insert? They don't have any other meaning in vi. What use is it to have them beep? It is a bit like to have some control keys self-inserting in Emacs. _

Re: How to avoid insert anything without switching to read only

2005-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kim F. Storm wrote: > >>"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>What you should do is rebind those characters to run >>>another command, one that does your special thing >>>and calls self-insert. >>> >>> >> >>Or use the command rema

Re: How to avoid insert anything without switching to read only

2005-07-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
Kim F. Storm wrote: "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When you put advice on primitive functions, it only works when they are called from Lisp code. The command loop calls self-insert directly in a special way, so your advice is not called. What you should do is rebind thos

Re: How to avoid insert anything without switching to read only

2005-07-10 Thread Kim F. Storm
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you put advice on primitive functions, > it only works when they are called from Lisp code. > The command loop calls self-insert directly in > a special way, so your advice is not called. > > What you should do is rebind those characters to

Re: [h-e-w] Novice questions about quiting

2005-07-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
Brian van den Broek wrote: The main query: I am having a problem quiting emacs. If I have open modified buffers, and wish to quit without saving I can quit with C-x C-c and answering the minibuffer prompts accordingly. However, if I try Menu->File->Exit Emacs or clicking the close button on t

Doc strings for ediff-pach-buffer/file is wrong

2005-07-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
The doc strings for ediff-patch-buffer/file talks about BUFFER-NAME and SOURCE-FILENAME that are not explained. On the other hand the argument "arg" is not described. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listi

Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

2005-07-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
Richard M. Stallman wrote: This does not alter the point that Windows-only improvements are not important for the GNU Project. Correcting Windows-only bugs or misfeatures is welcome, just not as important as making Emacs better on the GNU system. Windows-only features are not acceptable. W

Re: etc/refcard.tex update.

2005-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> \key{find specified function or variable in Info}{C-h C-i} > >> > >> the keybinding `C-h C-i' is not available anymore. > > > > Is there a new binding? > > I think the new key for this job is C-h F. > It does not exactly fi

Re: etc/refcard.tex update.

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
>> \key{find specified function or variable in Info}{C-h C-i} >> >> the keybinding `C-h C-i' is not available anymore. > > Is there a new binding? I think the new key for this job is C-h F. It does not exactly fit that description, since it works only for commands. _

Re: etc/refcard.tex update.

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
What still bothers me in `Query Replace' is that `C-M-%' is not mentioned. Lute added a comment saying that it can't be typed on consoles. But is it a reason for majority of users (X, xterm, MSWindows, MacOS) to not know about `C-M-%'? Users who can't type `C-M-%' on consoles

Re: grep.el regexp

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Perhaps what is needed to start with is to ask people to send output examples of different kinds of grep. We could put these example in a new file etc/grep.txt similarly to etc/compilation.txt. That is a good idea. Please start that file. I've collected a few examples in the fil

Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

2005-07-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
>What I've told you is that advantages only for Windows users are not >important advantages for the GNU Project. Our goal is to replace >Windows, not to enhance it, and we must not allow ourselves to be >distracted from this goal for the convenience of Windows users. Yes, I ag

Mac OS port: mac-hide-menu-bar patch

2005-07-10 Thread Seiji Zenitani
Hi, This patch provides "M-x mac-hide-menu-bar" and "M-x mac-show-menu- bar" to the Mac (Carbon) port. Generally menu-bars are toggled by menu-bar-mode on other platforms. However, since Mac OS has only one menu-bar in the screen, it is not good to toggle it by menu-bar-mode which is local

Re: Carbon port: setting the creator code (patch)

2005-07-10 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi David, David Reitter writes: > I don't know if we need to check for UFS drives (works fine for me > on SMB mounts; [...] UFS works the same as SMB. > I don't know how to check for that - maybe you can add that. You can use "Disk Utility" to create a disk image, repartition the image to chan

Re: Sending e-mail via system's mail client from sendmail.el

2005-07-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
David Reitter wrote: To activate: (setq send-mail-function 'mailclient-send-it) Forgot this: Maybe it would be better to include this in mailclient.el? Then you just have to load mailclient.el, that is it. For those who accidently loads it give a message and save the old value. __

Re: Sending e-mail via system's mail client from sendmail.el

2005-07-10 Thread Lennart Borgman
David Reitter wrote: The enclosed package allows to hand over a mail buffer from sendmail.el to the system's designated e-mail client. Note that the e-mail client will display the contents of the buffer again for editing. The e-mail client is taken to be whoever handles a mailto: URL via `bro

Sending e-mail via system's mail client from sendmail.el

2005-07-10 Thread David Reitter
The enclosed package allows to hand over a mail buffer from sendmail.el to the system's designated e-mail client. Note that the e-mail client will display the contents of the buffer again for editing. The e-mail client is taken to be whoever handles a mailto: URL via `browse-url'. To activate:

Re: Carbon port: setting the creator code (patch)

2005-07-10 Thread David Reitter
On 10 Jul 2005, at 01:56, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote: I think these functions should follow the convention of existing operations on files. For example, with respect to the default directory, error handling, and argument names. Maybe the function name should be "mac-set-file-creator". We can ad

Re: Carbon port: setting the creator code (patch)

2005-07-10 Thread David Reitter
On 9 Jul 2005, at 17:08, Steven Tamm wrote: Fine. You can do the same thing with osascript (although it's much more annoying). I did that for a while, until I had a bug report from a user saying that it started Finder every time he saved a file. The AppleScript had to go through the Find

Re: Emacs and Squiggles as filenames

2005-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) writes: > "D Goel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory fname) dir) >> >> >> should return fname back. It is like an identity, right? If not, >> what is the way to *always* correctly do an expand-file-name ? > > This works for me:

Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

2005-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No. There is no escaping whatsoever, nor is there a delimiter. The 4 >> before the H is a character count. And H stands for "Hollerith code", >> the punch card predecessor of "ASCII

Re: etc/refcard.tex update.

2005-07-10 Thread Lute Kamstra
Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >>> 7. In the section `Info' >>> >>> \key{find specified function or variable in Info}{C-h C-i} >>> >>> the keybinding `C-h C-i' is not available anymore. >> >> Is there a new binding? > > Currently `C-h C-i' is unbound. Some time ago I proposed to b

Re: Is there any way to have a string literal that is read "raw"

2005-07-10 Thread Sean O'Rourke
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. There is no escaping whatsoever, nor is there a delimiter. The 4 > before the H is a character count. And H stands for "Hollerith code", > the punch card predecessor of "ASCII code". > > Another advantage of 4H^.*\n is that you