Re: Yet another emacs icons

Andrew Zhilin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Following the discussion, I've decided to make a 16x16 "notebook" >version. Oh my, that was not easy =) Here's the result of my effort. >It does not satisfy me 100%, but after a certain point new iterations >just ceased to make things bet

Re: delete-char vs "mouse-region" and "transient-mark-region"

Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 1. $ emacs -q >> >> 2. Create two lines of text: >> >> line1 >> line2 >> >> 3. Mark the first one usin

Re: delete-char vs "mouse-region" and "transient-mark-region"

"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. $ emacs -q > > 2. Create two lines of text: > > line1 > line2 > > 3. Mark the first one using the mouse and press C-d (delete-char). The >marked region will be deleted. > > That does not happen when I try it. C-d j

Re: Another Emacs icon

Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are on the web now, on > http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/NewIcons.html, together with the Gimp > sources that David sent me. Look after David on the page. > Personally I would like that kind of finishing on my suggestions with > M-x. The small vers

Re: Thumbs

Paul Pogonyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone actually tried and bindings > (`thumbs-next-image' and `thumbs-previous-image') in the > Thumbs-view-image mode? They don't work here... Haven't tested that in a while, but you might also want to try tumme: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-

Re: Problem with national characters in XHTML

Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/28/05, LENNART BORGMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have run into a problem with swedish national characters in an >> XHTML document. The header of the document is like this: >> >> >> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loo

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

Emilio Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think something like isearch's "C-w" and friends extended to other > commands which read from the minibuffer would be useful. I would like that. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://list

Re: Problem with large buffers

Chris Mears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have encountered a problem with large buffers in CVS Emacs. When some > commands are run on large-ish buffers Emacs seems to overflow some > internal limit. > > Steps to reproduce: > > - emacs -q > - C-x b a-big-buffer RET > - M-: (dotimes (i 6) (i

Re: obsolete comment in tool-bar.el

Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is one of between 20 and 30 (I forgot the exact number) options > with a similar problem. Start `emacs -Q', do `M-x customize-rogue' > and you get the list. If you choose "Erase Customization" for them in > a Custom buffer, very unexpected things

Re: SPC in custom-mode

Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Why not just keep it simple. SPC scrolls. ENTER activates. >> >> > Because I have several times pressed SPC instead of ENTER. I guess I > will not be the only one - or I hope I will not be the only one. It is > quite confusing and unexpected that t

obsolete comment in tool-bar.el

I found this in tool-bar.el: ;; We want to pretend the toolbar by standard is on, as this will make ;; customize consider disabling the toolbar a customization, and save ;; that. We could do this for real by setting :init-value above, but ;; that would turn on the toolbar in MS W

Re: AltGr finger twisters documented?

"Jan D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect this is keyboard dependent. I do C-\ all the time with > both right and left control, and I press Ctrl-AltGr-+ (hold down all > three keys at the same time, which I press first or last does not > matter) on my swedish keyboard (and add Alt to that,

Re: Editing exportet registry files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thank you all very much for your help. With the given information and the > Emacs > ducumentation I have now added the following lines to my .emacs file, which > makes editing exportet registry files less painfull: > > (setq file-coding-system-alist > (append '(

Re: Another menu question - , and

Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because the code that generates the menus works like that. I think it > takes the last key binding for the function and displays that. > Perhaps if we reverse the order of key bindings, we will get a better > result (F20). > > > Is not those C-w (and w

Re: foreground menu bug

"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, what does a disabled menu item tell the user? He might not > understand that it is because font lock is enabled. He might wonder if > he is doing something wrong seeing that menu item disabled. > > This makes no sense. Menu ite

Re: foreground menu bug

"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or, it could just warn the user that the highlighting will not be > visible since font lock is enabled? > > It would be possible, but why be so complicated? > This change seems to do the right job. Assuming the user notices that we disab

Re: foreground menu bug

Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tested this the other day too and was confuzzled (confused + > puzzled). After a while I realized that it had to do woth > font-lock-mode overriding my coloring. > > Perhaps those menu items should be disabled when Font Lock is enabled.

Re: File menu changes (suggestions)

"Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another possible renaming I forgot to mention is "Split Window". The > window is not split to result in a single window with a > divider. "New Window" would be a better name for this menu item. I do not agree. "Split Window" is in my opinion a very good

Re: foreground menu bug

Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [emacs CVS 2005-06-12 with GTK] > > If I mark a text region and select the menu entry > > Edit->Text Properties->Foreground Color->Other... > > I can select a colour (say, red) and everything is fine. > > After doing that, the colour `red' is added to

Re: What holds the release

"John S. Yates, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a non-developer/lurker, who does NOT run a CVS pre-release emacs > but simply a fairly stock 21.4, I suspect that the team that > participates in this list has long since lost track of what the > standard distribution feels like. Do you all no

Re: [comp.emacs] "Emacs" defined in Collins English Dictionary

Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am a native Swedish-speaker and wonder about these plurals ending in >> -en. I have seen "emacsen" and "boxen", and to me they look "ugly" >> (not offence intended), cannot explain why. Does not sound right at >> all to me. Is there any "old" words that

Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link

David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> But I do feel than there's something wrong with a project the size >>> and importance of Emacs holding new features for three and a half >>> years (and counting). 21.1 was released on October, 21, 2001. >> >> Am I missing something here or wasnt the la

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The above-mentioned specification is well thought out, and the list >> of advantages of this approach is convincing. So the best thing for >> us to do now is just to follow this standard and to share the same >> standard

Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link

Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I do feel than there's something wrong with a project the size > and importance of Emacs holding new features for three and a half > years (and counting). 21.1 was released on October, 21, 2001. Am I missing something here or wasnt the latest "

Re: [comp.emacs] "Emacs" defined in Collins English Dictionary

Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it might interest people in this group that "emacs" is defined in > the new edition of the Collins English Dictionary (7th edition). > The dictionary gives the plural as "emacsen", and it is defined as > follows: "a powerful computer program used for creat

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: >> Seems quite good although I don't like the idea of using PNG-files as >> their size is much larger than using JPEG. > > As long as they are smaller than the block size on your file system, > it probably doesn't matter... Good point. Anyway, PNG is the f

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The above-mentioned specification is well thought out, and the list > of advantages of this approach is convincing. So the best thing for > us to do now is just to follow this standard and to share the same > standard thumbnail directory with other GNU pr

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> After each call to `tumme-display-thumbs', check that variable, and if >> nil, ask the user if it is OK to do a clean up (or really check if a >> clean-up is necessary). We can provide options like "Yes, please >> clen-up", "No, ask me later", or "

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PNG is more optimal for small images like thumbnails. In what way? The tests I did showed that thumbnails of size 100x100 was several times larger. ___ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://list

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Henrik Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you seen the thumbnail-spec, which is apparently poised to become a > freedesktop.org standard? It seems to allow usage of the same > thumbnails by several programs. > > I have now... :) Seems quite good al

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alternatively, the cleanup could be triggered periodically, via > > timers or by any other means. > > > The problem with both alternatives is that there will be > > circumstances when the thumbnails directory will be bigger > > (perhaps much bigger)

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah. In fact I want to do that to detect whether the convert.exe in > the path is the ImageMagick's or Windows' one (alternatively, I'm > thinking of temporarily removing %windir%/* directories from > exec-path before trying to find convert.exe).

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - I wish there was a way to put the thumbs directly next to the original > image files. E.g. instead of ~/.emacs-thumbs/foo!bar!baz!toto!.jpg > I'd like to use ~/foo/bar/baz/.emacs-thumbs/toto_.jpg. What are the benefits of doing this? I

Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Please note that we are likely to replace thumbs.el with tumme.el, >> which seems to be better in general. > > I know, but meanwhile I prefer to have a working thumbs.el. While you are doing fixes in thumbs.el, you wouldn't care for merging all o

Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs

> > The COM interface itself is part of the OS. Much like DND. > > Yes, like the DLL interface for which a way of accessing it from > within Emacs in a general way was ruled out. > > I quite fail to see how your assessment of the situation differs from > mine, but it is not really important. Ei

Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs

> > Richard will have the definitive answer, but I don't think this > > applies to standard components of the OS. > > But how can you tell if an object is a standard component in the OS or > not? AFAIK anybody can make ActiveX/COM-objects. Much like shared > libraries on Unix. This is something

Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs

> > Basically, what I need is "only" to instantiate different > > ActiveX/COM-objects and use the methods and properties they provide, > > not the VBScript programming language itself. > > [...] > > OK, enough blabbing, here is my question: what would be needed to > > make it possible doing this mo

Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs

(I apologize if this is the wrong group for discussing this. I was thinking of posting to help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, but my question is from a developer standpoint more than a user, so...) Much of my Emacs-time is at work, using MS Windows. For some small hacks (those who read gnu.emacs.sources m