Recent changes to Calendar/Diary

2005-09-12 Thread Romain Francoise
With today's Emacs: when I do M-x calendar, instead of just telling me that there are no diary items for today as it used to, Emacs jumps to the next diary-anniversary entry in my diary, which is on September 25th. Is this intentional? -- Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I used to think th

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Romain Francoise
"Chong Yidong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (2) Fix recognition of shell's `dirs' command. > I installed tcsh, turned on command echoing, and was unable to get the > `dirs' command confused. Let's just close this, unless someone else > is seeing the problem. I can reproduce it with bash and 's

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:37:13 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> > 1) When is the best estimate of when 22.1 will come out? > >> Not before 2006. > > I hope it can be done faster than that! > > I hope so as well, but my best estimate is still "no

Crash on invalid cons_free_list

2005-09-12 Thread Chong Yidong
[I sent this to emacs-pretest-bug a few days ago, but it didn't seem to arrive. I think my email system was flaking out at the time.] I installed VM to and played around with it trying to make the string_free_list/compact_small_strings crash happen. I got a crash on an invalid cons_free_list; du

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Miles Bader
2005/9/13, Nick Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > my impression is that > > by-and-large, the unicode-2 branch is not going to change > > dramatically. > > That does beg the question as to why unicode-2 hasn't already been merged into > HEAD given that, using

Re: Potential GC-related problems in compose_chars_in_text

2005-09-12 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > The following code in compose_chars_in_text looks suspicious: That's right. But, it's not used anymore and it seems that I just forgot to delete that function. :-( I'm sorry for taking your time on it. I've just deleted

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 9/12/05, Chong Yidong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope it can be done faster than that! I'll eat my Emacs reference card if 22.1 is out before *2007*. Yeah, I've read the rest of the thread. I'll be delighted to be proven wrong. > (3) Emacs on Windows crashes on JPEG images from files in u

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Roberts
Miles Bader writes: > I use unicode-2 as my "secondary" emacs, and it seems pretty stable, > more or less identical to the trunk. and > my impression is that > by-and-large, the unicode-2 branch is not going to change > dramatically. That does beg the que

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Miles Bader
2005/9/13, Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And how stable / bug-free is unicode-2 > right now compared with the will-become-22.1 code? I use unicode-2 as my "secondary" emacs, and it seems pretty stable, more or less identical to the trunk. The main problems I've had seem to mostly be relate

Re: Shall we use etc/images more?

2005-09-12 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll try to send out a proposal by early next week with the list of > affected image files. This email lists the images in use by the MH-E package today, explains how they got there, and proposes new locations in etc/images for them. At the end, I also su

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2005-09-12 Thread Martin
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Re: ispell.el doesn't work any more

2005-09-12 Thread Magnus Henoch
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know why older Aspell's are no good for us. Magnus, can you > please comment on that? The main cause is that aspell >= 0.60 consistently supports UTF-8, which simplifies the automatic dictionary detection. Supporting aspell 0.50 would involve

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > 1) When is the best estimate of when 22.1 will come out? >> Not before 2006. > I hope it can be done faster than that! I hope so as well, but my best estimate is still "not before 2006". Stefan ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gn

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Kim F. Storm
"Chong Yidong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can we start the release process once these five bugs are resolved, or > is there any more reason to delay? Starting the release process means to start the pre-test. IMO, solving the remaining problems don't need to postpone that, but Richard has the

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread David Kastrup
"Chong Yidong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > 1) When is the best estimate of when 22.1 will come out? >> >> Not before 2006. > > I hope it can be done faster than that! [...] > Can we start the release process once these five bugs are resolved, >

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Chong Yidong
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) When is the best estimate of when 22.1 will come out? > > Not before 2006. I hope it can be done faster than that! Looking through FOR-RELEASE, the only major bug left to fix is the compact_small_strings/string_free_list problem -- which may have

Re: ispell.el doesn't work any more

2005-09-12 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:22:54 -0400 > > Now whenever I try to run flyspell-mode (which I use pretty much > everywhere), I get the following backtrace: > > Indeed, my aspell is older than 0.60, but it worked just fine until now. > It's not like Fedora

Making fsync() optional

2005-09-12 Thread Romain Francoise
Would people be conceptually opposed to making the fsync() call optional in Fwrite_region? Calling it after each write defeats the kernel's ability to commit consecutive buffers to disk in one go, which can be beneficial in a lot of cases (like nnml files in an nnml directory). It also means that

Re: Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 1) When is the best estimate of when 22.1 will come out? Not before 2006. > My second question concerns the unicode-2 branch of CVS. As I understand I don't know much about Aqua/Cocoa/Carbon, and more specifically I don't know how different are Cocoa and Carbon, so I don't know who much of t

Release timelines and Unicode2 branch

2005-09-12 Thread Adrian Robert
Hi, I'm maintaining the Emacs-on-Aqua GNUstep / OS X port, currently based on emacs 20.7 (http://emacs-on-aqua.sf.net/). I want to update this to a more recent version but would ideally like to do so against a stabilized / released version of GNU emacs -- just so I know that bugs are my

Re: with-current-buffer

2005-09-12 Thread Emilio Lopes
Stefan Monnier writes: > If foo is displayed in a window, it has 2 points: its own and the > one of the window. My first thought was to ask if this is a new feature. It isn't. It's just plain embarrassing that one can work more than ten years with an editor without ever noting something as fund

iso-insert is obsolete?

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
Isn't lisp/international/iso-insert.el obsolete? I mean iso-transl.el (which is preloaded) does the same thing anyway, only better. Stefan ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep?

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> $ echo -e "this\nthat" | grep '(this|that)' Try "grep '\(this\|that\)'" Stefan ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

ispell.el doesn't work any more

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
Now whenever I try to run flyspell-mode (which I use pretty much everywhere), I get the following backtrace: Indeed, my aspell is older than 0.60, but it worked just fine until now. It's not like Fedora Core 2 is ancient. It's not the latest and greatest, but it should definitely be among the sy

Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep?

2005-09-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > Could you elaborate a little. The syntax of grep is not sufficient to > | > make daily searches with M-x find-dired or M-x grep-find that happen > | > frequen

Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep?

2005-09-12 Thread Jari Aalto
Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Could you elaborate a little. The syntax of grep is not sufficient to | > make daily searches with M-x find-dired or M-x grep-find that happen | > frequently during searching system log files or looking into

Re: New $TERM init code

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> --- orig/lisp/startup.el > +++ mod/lisp/startup.el > @@ -1004,14 +1004,21 @@ >(not (load (concat term-file-prefix term) t t))) > ;; Strip off last hyphen and what follows, then try again > (setq term > - (if (setq hyph

Re: Refering to bug reports (was: Options menu is broken on CVS)

2005-09-12 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I'd suggest to add the Message-ID (maybe in addition to sender and date). That is feasible. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Options menu is broken on CVS

2005-09-12 Thread Richard M. Stallman
> (Would you want to find the URLs for me?) Given the date and the Subject, it should be very easy to do that, using the mail-archive Search command. For me, this is not merely hard, but impossible. I do my work without internet access, most of the time. ___

Re: potential bug in display_mode_element?

2005-09-12 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I think you are right about the bug, but I think your patch does not completely fix it. This patch, which seems to work, should fix the bug completely by accessing the string only through its Lisp object pointer. *** xdisp.c 08 Sep 2005 20:35:28 -0400 1.1050 --- xdisp.c 12 Sep 2005 0

Re: Options menu is broken on CVS

2005-09-12 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I have no idea if this will work without some non-trivial re-shuffling of the code in x-popup-menu. Just looking at the source, it seems to invoke functions that need X (or its emulation). Someone will have to work on refactoring the code before we can do what you suggest. The fo

Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep?

2005-09-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you elaborate a little. The syntax of grep is not sufficient to > make daily searches with M-x find-dired or M-x grep-find that happen > frequently during searching system log files or looking into program > and text document files. In GNU grep there

Re: compile.el::grep-program - should it use egrep instead of grep?

2005-09-12 Thread Jari Aalto
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | The use of grep(1) command in all of there is not optimal. So my question | was wheather there were any *nix OS that did not define egrep(1) and thus | would prevent using "egrep" as a default value. | | I do not want to change to eg

Re: jit-lock refontifies too much

2005-09-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> or - but this might disturb people accustomed to the current behavior of > plain font-lock - > (when font-lock-multiline > (setq end (or (text-property-any end (point-max) >'font-lock-multiline nil) > (point-ma

Potential GC-related problems in compose_chars_in_text

2005-09-12 Thread Kim F. Storm
The following code in compose_chars_in_text looks suspicious: if (INTEGERP (val) && XFASTINT (val) == start) { to = Fmatch_end (make_number (0)); val = call4 (XCDR (elt), val, to, XCAR (elt), string); if (INTEGERP

[PATCH] Add more autoloads to sendmail.el

2005-09-12 Thread Jari Aalto
Variable mail-yank-prefix is currently defined in sendmail.el, so in order to access it's default value, one would formally need to load sendmail: (require 'sendmail) Perhaps few ###autoloads would be in place here? Proposed patch follows. 2005-09-12 Mon Jari Aalto * mail/sendm

Re: potential bug in display_mode_element?

2005-09-12 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: > Kenichi Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I got a bug report for emacs-unicode-2, and it seems that >> the same bug exists in HEAD too. The backtrace is this: >> and never changed in the while loop. So the only reas

Re: potential bug in display_mode_element?

2005-09-12 Thread Kim F. Storm
Kenichi Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got a bug report for emacs-unicode-2, and it seems that > the same bug exists in HEAD too. The backtrace is this: > and never changed in the while loop. So the only reason I > can think of why the address pointed by list_string becomes > out of bound