Re: pxref

2005-10-20 Thread Juri Linkov
before the closing paren, because those are > the rules of the Info files. If you look in the emacs-* files with a > pager, you will see that a @pxref with more than one argument always > ends in a period, no matter if it's the in the same or another manua

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-20 Thread Juri Linkov
x27;\xd0c9\x5397d)}]*" +(if sentence-end-double-space +"\\($\\| $\\|\t\\| \\)" "\\($\\|[\t ]\\)") +"\\|[" sentence-end-without-space "]+\\)" +"[ \t\n]*"))

Re: Defaults for set-variable

2005-10-19 Thread Juri Linkov
! new value using the minibuffer a second time (you can insert the old ! value into the minibuffer for editing via @kbd{M-n}). For example, @example M-x set-variable @key{RET} fill-column @key{RET} 75 @key{RET} -- Juri Linkov http://ww

Re: Searching in the minibuffer

2005-10-19 Thread Juri Linkov
oves point to the next occurrence of the search string and highlights it. Having a delay in the minibuffer between typing C-s and seeing the search string highlighted, or requiring to type another key to exit the delay, would be a nuisance. -- Juri Linkov http

Re: Handling invalid HTML

2005-10-19 Thread Juri Linkov
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 > "By default, SGML requires that all attribute values be delimited > using either double quotation marks (ASCII decimal 34) or single > quotation marks (ASCII decimal 39). ... In certain cases, authors > may specify the value

Re: Desktop saves isearch-mode

2005-10-19 Thread Juri Linkov
oes the same in .emacs. But it seems there is no need. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Desktop saves TAGS-LISP

2005-10-19 Thread Juri Linkov
-to-save nil "List of major modes whose buffers should not be saved." :type '(repeat symbol) :group 'desktop) --- 306,314 :type 'regexp :group 'desktop) ! ;; We skip TAGS files to save time (tags-file-name is saved i

Re: Searching in the minibuffer

2005-10-18 Thread Juri Linkov
tch doesn't display the search prompt at all for successful search state. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Amendments in calc-units.el

2005-10-18 Thread Juri Linkov
at contains: degKK # "Degrees Kelvin" is forbidden usage. i.e. it defines degK, but has a warning about its usage in comments. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@

Handling invalid HTML

2005-10-18 Thread Juri Linkov
Current rules of recognizing HTML files in Emacs are too strict: 1. The valid string delimiter for HTML attribute values is the quotation character. However, some HTML files on the Web use apostrophes, e.g. The program that generates such non-standard meta headers is identified as 'Microsoft D

Re: etc/TODO: command to make a "Local Variables" section

2005-10-18 Thread Juri Linkov
(when coding > (insert (format "coding: %s\n" > (symbol-name buffer-file-coding-system > (dolist (v variables) > (insert (format "%s: %S\n" (symbol-name v) (symbol-value v > (insert "End:\n") > (comment-region (mark) (point As Stefan already pointed out recently, comment-region should be wrapped with an appropriate let binding of comment-style. > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: TUTORIAL.gz

2005-10-18 Thread Juri Linkov
n Debian GNU/Linux after removing gzip and trying to open a compressed file looks like: Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d < filename.gz" /bin/sh: gzip: command not found It seems it is already quite informative. -- Juri Linkov h

Re: Desktop saves isearch-mode

2005-10-18 Thread Juri Linkov
m" (lambda () (interactive) (switch-to-buffer "*Messages*"))) ;; how to allow using the same key binding in isearch-mode: (define-key isearch-mode-map "\M-m" 'isearch-other-control-char) This doesn't cause the reported problem. -- Juri Li

Defaults for set-variable

2005-10-17 Thread Juri Linkov
(format "%S" (symbol-value var (list var val current-prefix-arg))) (and (custom-variable-p variable) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Info-index-alternatives

2005-10-17 Thread Juri Linkov
(name) --- 2825,2832 (car (car Info-index-alternatives)) (nth 2 (car Info-index-alternatives)) (if (cdr Info-index-alternatives) ! (format "(`,' tries to find %s next)" ! (1- (length Info-index-alternatives)))

Re: TUTORIAL.gz

2005-10-17 Thread Juri Linkov
file is not a good idea. But you can still leave insert-file-contents with let-binding ((auto-compression-mode t)) around it, because compression mode can handle compressed files on low-level file functions (including insert-file-contents). -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Searching in the minibuffer (was: wrapper fn for message and minibuffer-message?)

2005-10-17 Thread Juri Linkov
riginal-minibuffer-message-timeout ! minibuffer-message-timeout ! 2)) ! (message "")) (defun isearch-message-prefix (&optional c-q-hack ellipsis nonincremental) ;; If about to search, and previous search regexp was invalid, -- Juri Linkov

Desktop saves TAGS-LISP

2005-10-17 Thread Juri Linkov
5,301 ;; (ftp) files because they require passwords and whatnot. ;; TAGS files to save time (tags-file-name is saved instead). (defcustom desktop-buffers-not-to-save ! "\\(^nn\\.a[0-9]+\\|\\.log\\|(ftp)\\|^tags\\|^TAGS.*\\)$" "Regexp identifying buffers t

Desktop saves isearch-mode

2005-10-17 Thread Juri Linkov
variable indicating that the minor -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: wrapper fn for message and minibuffer-message?

2005-10-15 Thread Juri Linkov
its delay after typing C-r and before point moves to the next occurrence is too long. Sorry. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: wrapper fn for message and minibuffer-message?

2005-10-15 Thread Juri Linkov
t to the minibuffer contents. For example, with the minibuffer: Eval: (setq foo 'bar) typing `C-s foo' will display: Eval: (setq foo 'bar) [I-search backward: foo] and `foo' will be highlighted in `isearch' face, as usual. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/e

Re: Qs on key-description, substitute-command-keys

2005-10-15 Thread Juri Linkov
, then to print as many keys as many of them fits into this limit. For example: M-x scroll-left-> defines the maximum 15 characters C-next, C-x < -> both keys fit into 15-characters limit, so replace \[scroll-left] with both keys -- Juri Link

M-g in dired

2005-10-15 Thread Juri Linkov
l' returns the first keybindings. Since it's not possible to control which keybinding `where-is-internal' returns, to reproduce this bug `C-x `' should be unbound globally, e.g. by (define-key ctl-x-map "`" nil). After that (key-description (where-is-internal &#x

Re: filling bug in text-mode

2005-10-14 Thread Juri Linkov
e-excursion !(skip-chars-backward " ") !(and (eq (preceding-char) ?.) ! (not (progn (forward-char -1) (looking-at (sentence-end)) ;; Don't split a line if the rest would look like a new paragraph. (unless use-hard-newlines (save-excu

Re: Update filename history after several actions

2005-10-11 Thread Juri Linkov
's better to leave the current default behavior (with only adding user input to the history) unchanged. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: info.texi

2005-10-10 Thread Juri Linkov
deleting the code (I don't know if there are users still using it), so I only deleted the menu item "Edit" and its description from the docstring of `Info-mode'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel

Re: info.texi

2005-10-10 Thread Juri Linkov
With all rearrangements completed in info.texi, perhaps someone should proof-read the Info manual before removing the corresponding to-do item from FOR-RELEASE? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-09 Thread Juri Linkov
at the top. There are quite many places in the Emacs documentation where these commands (and their underlined output) are in the middle of a node. I don't know is it bad style or what. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-d

Re: filling bug in text-mode

2005-10-09 Thread Juri Linkov
;; Don't split a line if the rest would look like a new paragraph. (unless use-hard-newlines -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Update filename history after several actions

2005-10-09 Thread Juri Linkov
e-name-history) (if history-delete-duplicates (delete buffer-file-name file-name-history)) (setq file-name-history (cons buffer-file-name file-name-history -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-08 Thread Juri Linkov
this change. OTOH, the artificial case you described in another mail (the word BOX with asterisks around it) is extremely rare in the large Info base I looked at. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: filling bug in text-mode

2005-10-08 Thread Juri Linkov
default value of `sentence-end'. There are functions like `fill-delete-newlines' that rely on its current default value, so changing the default value of `sentence-end' will break such functions. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: info.texi

2005-10-08 Thread Juri Linkov
dded to the node "Add" after the following sentence: However, if you want to edit an Info file manually and install it manually, here is how. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: bug with file name completing

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
tion-ignored-extensions? BTW, there is "CVS/" in completion-ignored-extensions by default, but no "RCS/" and ",v". Should these extensions be added too? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing

Re: Update filename history after several actions

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
very package (e.g. dired.el, recentf.el) could add their own user-level command names to such a variable. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: bug with file name completing

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
s. I suggest to remove .pdf and .dvi from the default value dired-omit-extensions. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Another Emacs icon

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
e splash screen) is looking to the left. Such difference causes a discomforting feeling of the icon image being mistakenly mirrored. Could you turn its head to the same direction? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list

Re: filling bug in text-mode

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
sentence-end) tries to match the end of the sentence, but fails. One solution is to fix the regexp in `sentence-end' to match three periods. However, this might have an undesirable effect in other places. A more localized fix is to change the rule above to skip only one period backw

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
')? If so, then I think it is safe to fix that in a way of comparing their lengths before highlighting. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: 3 dots vanish at end of filled line

2005-10-07 Thread Juri Linkov
{} on a filled line x... thus not breaking `x...'? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Patch: Follow convention for reading with the minibuffer.

2005-10-02 Thread Juri Linkov
;; If there are at least 10 lines with a leading TAB, use TABs. >(re-search-forward "^ " (+ (point) 10) t 10))) > (set (make-local-variable 'indent-tabs-mode) t Good heuristic. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _

Re: show-buffer-local-variables

2005-10-02 Thread Juri Linkov
ome modes should override this value with a new variable like `local-variables-prefix'. Also the local variables list for `dcl-save-all-options' is not general. A better choice is a list like used by desktop.el to save the values of local variables in the desk

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Emacs very slow opening file]

2005-10-02 Thread Juri Linkov
isting Local-Variables sections, but for new sections adding these special variables would be easy with a new command (from etc/TODO) that will make a local variables section and write the values of `local-variables-prefix' and `local-variables-suffix' automatically. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Emacs very slow opening file]

2005-09-29 Thread Juri Linkov
it to a value that matches the Local Variables section only inside HTML comments, and such problems of mistakenly using a Local Variables section wouldn't occur in packages that convert files to other representations. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ __

Re: Patch: Follow convention for reading with the minibuffer.

2005-09-29 Thread Juri Linkov
n". But what to do with the second sentence? Commands that read buffer names still put the default after the colon. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Patch: Follow convention for reading with the minibuffer.

2005-09-29 Thread Juri Linkov
"\\)") buffer-file-name)) (setq indent-tabs-mode t))) (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'indent-tabs-mode) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: (message (format "File %s" file))

2005-09-19 Thread Juri Linkov
box or pop-up menu, because the terminal does not --- 269,275 @code{last-nonmenu-event} to a suitable value around the call. @end defun ! @defun message-box format-string &rest arguments This function displays a message like @code{message}, but uses a dialog box (or a pop-up m

Re: ispell.el doesn't work any more

2005-09-19 Thread Juri Linkov
ult value of ispell-aspell-supports-utf8 could be `auto-detect', so users will be able to set it explicitly to `nil' or `t', if version testing fails (with `condition-case' around the testing code). -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _

Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

2005-09-16 Thread Juri Linkov
g are clearer than "initial": "init-val", "init-value", > "initial-value". As there exist already only three different argument names: "initial", "initial-contents" and "initial-input", I'd choose one of existing names inst

Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

2005-09-16 Thread Juri Linkov
han "initial" or "default". To understand the difference between them, programmers still should consult the documentation. > "Init" clearly stands for "initial", but the "value" part is > important - "initial" by itself doesn't

Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

2005-09-16 Thread Juri Linkov
is to save space. If the meaning of "hist" is as clear as "history", then it could be used consistently in other functions as well. > require-match, mustmatch, must-match, existing > > This seems like a good case

Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

2005-09-16 Thread Juri Linkov
> Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Since `default' is a keyword in C, `defaults' is a good replacement. > > `default' is special cased: you can spell it `defalt' in the C code and > still get `DEFAULT' in the doc string. Thanks f

Re: ispell.el doesn't work any more

2005-09-15 Thread Juri Linkov
-20050121") version<("0.60.3-20050121" "0.60") ispell-check-version() ispell-init-process() ispell-buffer-local-words() ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs() ispell-word(nil nil nil) call-interactively(ispell-word) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Re: Argument names in Elisp Reference vs docstrings

2005-09-15 Thread Juri Linkov
; is twice shorter than `inherit-input-method' and the `IM' abbreviation is already mentioned in the Emacs manual. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Crash on invalid cons_free_list

2005-09-15 Thread Juri Linkov
hat > closer to their origin. >From my experience, quite contrary: for a half year I got no crashes with a low value of gc-cons-threshold. But when I increased it to a big value (80MB) I immediately got a cons_free_list related crash. -- Juri Linkov

Re: compile.el

2005-09-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> Here's a slightly corrected new patch. > Please try this instead of the previous one. It works for all my tests. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: compile.el

2005-09-09 Thread Juri Linkov
argument stringp nil) expand-file-name(nil) compilation-find-file(# "ChangeLog" nil) compilation-next-error-function(0 nil) next-error(0) compile-goto-error(return) call-interactively(compile-goto-error) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___

Re: compile.el

2005-09-09 Thread Juri Linkov
xtract the directory name from the string: make: Entering directory `{absolute directory of source tree}/emacs/lisp' and use it even for files located in subdirectories of `emacs/lisp'. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs

Re: Patch: Follow convention for reading with the minibuffer.

2005-09-08 Thread Juri Linkov
rompt-default-format " [%s]: ") (read-buffer "Buffer name: " "foo" t) will display the prompt: Buffer name [foo]: -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: make `occur' use word at point as default

2005-09-06 Thread Juri Linkov
ough this function returns an empty string. I don't know whether this should be fixed or maybe it causes no problems. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: make `occur' use word at point as default

2005-09-06 Thread Juri Linkov
7;s response to your message seems right, but his reconstruction of your message is not. Could you confirm that you really meant this: But I think it would be more convenient to [use M-n to] access [additional default values] from the list [of default values]. -- Juri Linkov http:/

Re: literal newlines in @result{} strings

2005-09-01 Thread Juri Linkov
echo area, or inserted into the buffer) contains a literal newline instead of `\n'. So after evaluating examples from the manual users will see different results when examples of output contain `\n' in the manual, and the real displayed output contains literal newlines. -- Juri Linkov ht

Re: make `occur' use word at point as default

2005-09-01 Thread Juri Linkov
default values is M-n. It could work like M-p for a list of history values, but in the opposite direction. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: make `occur' use word at point as default

2005-09-01 Thread Juri Linkov
setq regexp-search-ring-variable 'regexp-history) or: (setq regexp-history-variable 'regexp-search-ring) (setq regexp-search-ring-variable 'regexp-search-ring) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: make `occur' use word at point as default

2005-08-31 Thread Juri Linkov
all these default values accessible in the minibuffer via M-n. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: literal newlines in @result{} strings

2005-08-31 Thread Juri Linkov
toggles a literal newline or `\n' in return values, or even to fill a bug report. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: grep-use-null-device

2005-08-30 Thread Juri Linkov
x0817af28 in create_process (process=141365940, new_argv=0xbfffe954, current_dir=140249731) at process.c:2153 #4 0x0817a97d in Fstart_process (nargs=5, args=0xbfffea94) at process.c:1695 ... (gdb) fr 3 #3 0x0817af28 in create_process (process=141365940, new_argv=0xbfffe954, current_dir=140249731)

Re: literal newlines in @result{} strings

2005-08-30 Thread Juri Linkov
that the difference whether a function returns or prints a literal newline or `\n' is preserved in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. Since `thing-at-point' actually returns a literal newline instead of `\n', it would be more correct to

Re: grep-use-null-device

2005-08-29 Thread Juri Linkov
roc) 'run)) (process-send-eof proc)) (set-process-sentinel proc 'compilation-sentinel) (set-process-filter proc 'compilation-filter) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

recompile and grep

2005-08-23 Thread Juri Linkov
t) t) ;; Set `font-lock-lines-before' to 0 to not refontify the previous ;; line where grep markers may be already removed. (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-lines-before) 0)) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: compile.el

2005-08-23 Thread Juri Linkov
tory where compilation was started. I think `-*- default-directory: "..." -*-' in the first line should be changed to `-*- compilation-directory: "..." -*-'. Currently this doesn't work with `compilation-directory' in the first line, but it is easy to fix co

Re: Mode line faces on ttys

2005-08-17 Thread Juri Linkov
ground color (or background color, respectively) of face @var{face}, as a string. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Mode line faces on ttys

2005-08-17 Thread Juri Linkov
e causes questions, maybe it should be mentioned in >> etc/NEWS? > > Definitely. In which NEWS section would you expect to find this fix? Possible candidates: * Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1 ** Face changes or * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1 or * Incompatib

Re: Mode line faces on ttys

2005-08-17 Thread Juri Linkov
ine-p)) + (define-obsolete-function-alias 'set-face-underline + 'set-face-underline-p "22.1") + (defun set-face-inverse-video-p (face inverse-video-p &optional frame) "Specify whether face FACE is in inverse video. -- J

Re: Mode line faces on ttys

2005-08-17 Thread Juri Linkov
an old or new Emacs version): (set-face-inverse-video-p 'mode-line t) (set-face-foreground 'mode-line "red") and see that this behavior is exactly the same as on ttys now. Since this change causes questions, maybe it should be mentioned in etc/NEWS? -- Juri Linkov http://www.

Re: Standard Faces nodes

2005-08-16 Thread Juri Linkov
to display the prompt text. @item fringe ! @cindex @code{fringe} face The face for the fringes to the left and right of windows on graphic displays. (The fringes are the narrow portions of the Emacs frame between the text area and the window's right and left borders.) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area

2005-08-16 Thread Juri Linkov
at I did. What do you expect in this situation? Trying to delete a character at bob prints the message "Beginning of buffer". Perhaps it should print something like "Beginning of prompt input area" in the minibuffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Avoiding moving point into minibuffer prompt area

2005-08-16 Thread Juri Linkov
cult to move point into the prompt area by default? For example, to disable moving point into the prompt with C-b, but allow C-a at the beginning of the input area to move point to the beginning of the prompt. This is like C-a (`message-beginning-of-line') works on message header fields.

Re: grep-use-null-device

2005-08-16 Thread Juri Linkov
he grep process that helps you to discover your mistake. Maybe grep.el should try to parse the grep command line and warn the user about a missing file name (e.g. by highlighting the command in the grep buffer in `compilation-error' face). This helps to notice the mistake sooner, bu

Re: Typo in search.texi V1.65

2005-08-16 Thread Juri Linkov
I can send a small patch that implements this. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Typo in search.texi V1.65

2005-08-14 Thread Juri Linkov
>> Would somebody please install the following change: >> >> 2005-08-13 Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> * search.texi: Correct a typo. > > Done, thanks. Wouldn't it be better to ispell-check the whole Info manual than t

Re: Suggestion: small improvment for compilation

2005-08-14 Thread Juri Linkov
tring'. > > I agree, see my corrected patch below. Thanks. Please see the recent discussion on emacs-pretest-bug. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Overlong nodes in the Emacs Lisp Manual

2005-08-13 Thread Juri Linkov
these manuals between each other before the release would be enough - I see no reason for the text about regexps to be different in both manuals. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Emacs icons

2005-08-12 Thread Juri Linkov
ame changed to EMAKS :-) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: Entering filenames with spaces

2005-08-12 Thread Juri Linkov
e. C-SPC is useful in the minibuffer to set mark. A better replacement key binding for minibuffer-complete-word would be S-TAB (but not M-TAB because it can be useful to complete symbols in the minibuffer from the external table). -- Juri Linkov http://www.jur

Re: Overlong nodes in the Emacs Lisp Manual

2005-08-12 Thread Juri Linkov
ur nodes. Then in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual only the node (info "(elisp)Regexp Functions") would remain with a cross-reference to the Emacs User Manual for description of regular expressions. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

Re: Leaving isearch-mode and keeping the highlite

2005-08-10 Thread Juri Linkov
erface for performing different actions on exit? Maybe to use a prefix argument, e.g.: `M-1 RET' - don't remove highlighting `M-2 RET' - don't push the search string into the search ring `M-3 RET' - leave point at the beginning of the found string And how to combine them? M

Re: Overlong nodes in the Emacs Lisp Manual

2005-08-10 Thread Juri Linkov
(emacs)Format Colors") 31 (info "(emacs)Charsets") 31 (info "(emacs)Borders X") 31 (info "(emacs)Abbrevs") 31 (info "(elisp)Window Type") 31 (info "(elisp)Warning Options") 31 (info "(elisp)Variables with Restricted Values") 31 (inf

Re: display-time-mode in menu bar.

2005-08-10 Thread Juri Linkov
tional component of "Time", anyway. Ok, I agree. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

Re: info.texi

2005-08-10 Thread Juri Linkov
Search Text Search Index Go to node Choose menu subtopic Create Info buffer Emacs Info Variables Expert Info Edit Add Menus Cross-refs Help-Cross Tags Checking Creating an Info File Index --

Re: Leaving isearch-mode and keeping the highlite

2005-08-10 Thread Juri Linkov
ithout pushing the search string into the search ring. Very useful to not stuff the search history with unnecessary search strings. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel

auto-compression-mode in menu bar

2005-08-09 Thread Juri Linkov
to turn it off (there is find-file-literally to visit compressed files without decompression). The Option menu is too big already, so removing an unnecessary item is a good change. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ ___ Emacs-devel mailing l

Re: Todays exercise of sanity (or does "see" really match "not"?)

2005-08-09 Thread Juri Linkov
(such as Note: and Menu: tags), but that 2) > users searching Info should not find such tags (they can always find them > using the appropriate Info commands, such as Info-next-reference). I have a small uninstalled patch that fixes this problem trivially. Is it ok to install it? -- Juri Link

Re: problem with recent change to grep-regexp-alist

2005-08-09 Thread Juri Linkov
a line ((lambda () (setq compilation-error-screen-columns nil) (- (match-beginning 4) (match-end 1))) . (lambda () (- (match-end 5) (match-end 1) (- (match-end 4) (match-beginning 4) nil 1) But it still doesn't fontifify grep matches

Re: Grep Searching node in building.texi

2005-08-09 Thread Juri Linkov
bprocess. ! @end table ! ! @findex grep ! To run @code{grep}, type @kbd{M-x grep}, then enter a command line that specifies how to run @code{grep}. Use the same arguments you would give @code{grep} when running it normally: a @code{grep}-style regexp (usually in single-quotes to quote the sh

Re: display-time-mode in menu bar.

2005-08-09 Thread Juri Linkov
l" This menu item is too wide. A more shorter and still understandable menu item is: "Time, Load and Mail" or with `or': "Time, Date, Load or Mail" > !

Standard Faces nodes

2005-08-09 Thread Juri Linkov
e duplicated in both nodes. It would be better to provide this information only in the Emacs User Manual, and to make a cross-reference to it from the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. I could create a patch for that by merging the text from both nodes into `(emacs)Standard Faces', if this is

Re: info.texi

2005-08-09 Thread Juri Linkov
Cross-refs Help-Cross Tags Checking Creating an Info File Index -- Ju

Re: problem with recent change to grep-regexp-alist

2005-08-08 Thread Juri Linkov
pattern ":[0-9]+:" or ends with the pattern ":[0-9]+" (like Juri's example) > Juri, wouldn't be good to add a comment about this in grep.el or grep.txt? Since Richard doesn't want to document even `-n' option in grep.el, I am not sure I can add a comment i

Re: Shift Tab in help buffers still does not move backwards

2005-08-08 Thread Juri Linkov
> I believe that S-Tab still does not move backwards. It did at some time, > but have been changed again. Could you be more specific on what version/platform it doesn't work. On GNU/Linux with the latest CVS, S-TAB works in help buffers (but not M-TAB, ESC-TAB or C-M-i). -- Juri

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