Re: Amendments in calc-units.el

2005-10-16 Thread James Cloos
> "Jay" == Jay Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> P.S.: The patch also removes the "degree" for "Kelvin". Jay> Why? There is no such thing as degrees Kelvin, there are only Kelvins. (As an aside, I also agree that pt should remain pints.) -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTE

More X keysyms

2005-10-09 Thread James Cloos
Given the recent thread referencing keysyms, this seem apropos: A patch was added to xorg today adding some more keysyms. The list is available at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=3487 It adds #define XK_MATHEMATICAL to cvs/xorg/xc/include/keysym.h,v and these lines to cvs/xorg/x

character width anomalies

2005-10-08 Thread James Cloos
[This is probably emacs-unicode-2 specific. If there is a better list to post this on, please let me know. -JimC] Wanting to see what a given unicode char looked like, I tried to view it in emacs (I am running emacs 23 at the moment.) The font was missing a glyph, so I got an empty box. But is

Re: is undefined

2005-10-06 Thread James Cloos
>>>>> "JimC" == James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JimC> Perhaps the symbol could JimC> be a synonym for the keycode 0x1XX, for all XX? [SIGH] Seems X already has as a synonym for 0x100, and pr

Re: is undefined

2005-10-06 Thread James Cloos
> "Kenichi" == Kenichi Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenichi> Thank you for the info, but, oops, it doesn't have these Kenichi> lines (they exist in my debian): ... Kenichi> What's going on here? The diff between revisions 1.2 and 1.3 of that file as seen at: http://cvs.freedesktop.org

Re: is undefined

2005-10-05 Thread James Cloos
> "Kenichi" == Kenichi Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenichi> It seems that these X11 keysyms (in Kenichi> /usr/include/X11/keysymdefs.h, perhaps newly added) are not Kenichi> registered in x-keysym-table (in lisp/term/x-win.el). For the Cyrillic, see /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h on a cur

Re: new version of allout.el - patch and ChangeLog

2005-10-01 Thread James Cloos
> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > good question - i wasn't aware of pgg. can you tell me more about it? Reiner> If you have Emacs 22 (CVS) or Gnus 5.10 installed, you should Reiner> also have the manual: (info "(pgg)Top"). For gentoo, that means any of the app-editors

Re: writing an elisp interface to a c library

2005-08-30 Thread James Cloos
For the archives, src/xfaces.c is a good example to look at after reading the relevant sections of the elisp manual. I browsed through all of src; of all of the .c files, xfaces.c deals with an api most similar to what I asked about. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

writing an elisp interface to a c library

2005-08-18 Thread James Cloos
Can anyone point me to a good example in the emacs codebase of a lisp api that closely matches an existing external c api? So far I've only hacked the elisp part of emacs, not the C I presume I'll need to create some read-only lisp integers matching the names of the various enum values, lisp

Re: Entering filenames with spaces

2005-08-13 Thread James Cloos
> "David" == David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I want to stress that the default binding of the David> space bar should be too insert a space. Just to be clear, and since I was among the first to reply, I do agree that the default should be self-insert. -JimC ___

Re: Entering filenames with spaces

2005-08-12 Thread James Cloos
> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lennart> And some of those use Tab for file name completion - in the Lennart> "shell" too ;-) Yup. It is just hard to even /contemplate/ changing a 19 year old habit. :) -JimC ___ Emacs-

Re: Entering filenames with spaces

2005-08-12 Thread James Cloos
> "David" == David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> IIRC, people seemed to agree and some said that they wouldn't David> use minibuffer- complete-word anyways - especially for David> filenames it seems to be clear that minibuffer-complete-word David> makes no sense. Inputting a spac

Re: Updates for TeX, SGML and rfc1345 quails and an assignment q

2005-07-16 Thread James Cloos
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Re: Needed for the release

2005-06-16 Thread James Cloos
> "Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> The problem occurs in Fedora Core 4. On a FC4 system: Dan> echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space is required Dan> in order to be able to dump Emacs. I've not had any problems dumping emacs with Linus' and Andrew's recent kernel

Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

2005-06-10 Thread James Cloos
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> If the terminfo entry is most likely wrong, and we know it, Miles> then it doesn't make sense to follow it. One issue with this, btw, that I forgot at first is logging in to another box from the shell. There is no guarantee that the

Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

2005-06-09 Thread James Cloos
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> If it's impossible to tell whether there's correct underlining Miles> support, it seems safer to assume there's not -- or at the Miles> least don't _advertise_ that there is. In other words, Miles> probably the right thing to do is s

Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

2005-06-09 Thread James Cloos
RMS> --color=no does cause underlining to "work"--namely, to display RMS> as bold. RMS> This doesn't alter the conclusions I sent in the previous RMS> message: on this terminal, and on xterm, Emacs should say that RMS> underlining is NOT supported. In that case, at least when --color=yes I suppos

Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

2005-06-09 Thread James Cloos
> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eli> But James just wrote that turning off colors causes underlining Eli> to work correctly. That means the Linux console is in fact Eli> capable of underlining. What I meant is that is displays what a user of the linux consoles expects fo

Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

2005-06-08 Thread James Cloos
> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eli> you can try "emacs --color=no" to see if that causes underlining Eli> to work. Yes, that does change emacs' output. With TERM=linux underlining works iff --color=no. I presume infocmp -d linux xterm should show the relevant differenc

Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

2005-06-08 Thread James Cloos
> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eli> How did you test that? If you type "M-x list-faces-display RET", Eli> don't you see the face names underlined? I just gave that a test in gnome-terminal and at a virtual console: Using: env TERM=linux emacs -nw the underlines do

Re: display-supports-face-attributes-p bug?

2005-06-08 Thread James Cloos
> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> According to display-supports-face-attributes-p, the console Richard> implemented by Linux supports underline. But underlining is Richard> not visible. Richard> Is display-supports-face-attributes-p wrong, or is there a Ric

Re: BDF files

2005-05-24 Thread James Cloos
> "KH" == Kenichi Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "RMS" == Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KH> someone ... It may have been Primoz Peterlin. Roman Czyborra also has http://czyborra.com/unifont, but I believe that only has a 16 pixel high font. KH> compiled those files

Updates for TeX, SGML and rfc1345 quails and an assignment q

2005-04-07 Thread James Cloos
I've noticed several places in the latin-ltx.el, sgml-input.el and rfc1345.el files that I believe should be updated. The changes are mostly due to characters that were added to unicode/ iso10646 since the .el files were written. Or in the case of 1345 since the rfc itself was written. (I suppos

Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals

2005-04-07 Thread James Cloos
> "David" == David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Actually, it does not make sense to scale in that way. #3a7 David> really should be the same as #, so that #fff is the David> same as #, pure white. David> Somebody should tell the X people to do that. I b

Re: Antialiased text on X11

2005-03-30 Thread James Cloos
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> [I didn't change anything in the fontconfig setup so it seems Miles> the default settings -- which are presumably aimed at white Miles> backgrounds -- deals pretty well with black backgrounds too.] It does depend on the font and whet

Re: Possible change to startup.el

2005-03-25 Thread James Cloos
> "David" == David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> So where do we get copyright-free flag icons? >> KDE has a whole gallery. David> Are you sure that those are in the public domain? The openclipart project at freedesktop.org has flag images, and all of their stuff is public domain.

Re: The WHY of Xft

2005-03-21 Thread James Cloos
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> I think this is not true -- it seems to be exactly this Miles> behavior which -deferglyphs stops. Iâve now found deferglyphs in Xserver(1). As I said, it is new to me, but it does seem to address that one issue. Miles> Can xft stil

Re: The WHY of Xft

2005-03-20 Thread James Cloos
> âMilesâ == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The other benefits are just as important. Control and installation >> of fonts are easier for most users Miles> Can you explain in more detail? I use debian, and Emacs Miles> already seems able to use the same fonts as xft-using progra

The WHY of Xft [was: Re: Antialiased text on X11]

2005-03-19 Thread James Cloos
It should be pointed out that antialiasing and sub-pixel rendering are just two of the benefits of the client-side font system brought by Xft and friends. The other benefits are just as important. Control and installation of fonts are easier for most users, fonts with large encodings -- such as C

Re: Antialiased text on X11

2005-03-10 Thread James Cloos
> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stefan> A Cairo port will probably make sense at some point, but I Stefan> think that anti-aliasing support for X11 (using xft) is more Stefan> urgent. I suspect that the amount of work to get fontconfig/xft support on top of the curren

Antialiased text on X11

2005-03-10 Thread James Cloos
There have been various pleas and debates on this posted on and off over at least the past several months. There are several options for doing this, but I beleive Cairo (cf http://cairographics.org) is the best choice. This would not be on top of the current X11 support, but parallel to it (and t

lisp/usr/url-history bug in cvs head

2005-02-20 Thread James Cloos
I'm running cvs head updated w/in the last 8 hours. I've been getting backtraces whenever gnus tries to display an html mail which tries to dl stuff such as images. The root cause is is url/url-history.el: First it has: |> (defvar url-history-hash-table nil |> "Hash table for global history c

Re: M-Tab on w32 (and other window systems?)

2005-02-16 Thread James Cloos
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> Note that this can also be typed using `ESC TAB', which is pretty Miles> convenient (the ESC and TAB keys are almost next to one another). Lennart> Unfortunately this d