Re: arrow down cursor jumps several lines

2005-05-24 Thread Lute Kamstra
xah lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > behavior change request: > > * when pressing the arrow down key, the cursor sometimes jumps by > several lines. > > For an argument for changing this behavior, please see this essay > “The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines” > at > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_

C-h H crashes GNU Emacs

2005-05-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Hello! When I use an Adobe Courier based fontset (its description from M-x describe-fontset is approximately 50 KB as raw-text-unix) that I am trying to prepare from many different scalable fonts for code specific code ranges à la (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*

OSX:

2005-05-24 Thread David Reitter
This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org

arrow down cursor jumps several lines

2005-05-24 Thread xah lee
behavior change request: * when pressing the arrow down key, the cursor sometimes jumps by several lines. For an argument for changing this behavior, please see this essay “The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines” at http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/hard-wrap.html Thanks. Xah [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Segmentation violation in display_string

2005-05-24 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "KFS" == Kim F Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KFS> No, I actually meant what I wrote :-) OK :-), I'm sorry. When I apply the unchanged patch, Emacs crashes at the same place and with the same backtrace as without the patch. Regards, Milan Zamazal -- Here is my advice, don't try

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Kevin Gallagher
Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, C-g. Also, it works by causing something almost indistiguishable from an error. Of course we could distinguish them. I do think it's important to do something when execution is interrupted by C-g so the user can tell the differ

Ediff/Merge problem?

2005-05-24 Thread Richard.G.Bielawski
It used to be, when using merge, if I hit 'n' and there were no more differences I'd get a message saying something to the effect that there are no more differences. Now I get this   while: ediff-copy-B-to-C: Bad diff region number, 8.  Valid numbers are 1 to 7   I'm just assuming that th

Re: The trademark PostScript is incorrectly spelled

2005-05-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.05.2005 um 12:28 schrieb Richard Stallman: The correct spelling is PostScript, could be PostScript™ or PostScript® too GNU policy is not to do that. This was a joke. ``PostScript´´ is a sufficiently exact term. -- Greetings Pete How many Microsoft engineers does it take

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, > C-g. Also, it works by causing something almost indistiguishable from > an error. Of course we could distinguish them. I do think it's important to do something when execution is interrupted by C-g so the user can tell the di

Re: Segmentation violation in display_string

2005-05-24 Thread Kim F. Storm
Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thanks for the info. Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KFS> Can you rerun emacs with the following patch installed, to see if it > catches > KFS> the error earlier. > I think you actually meant > > if (frame_title_ptr == NULL) > >

Re: before- and after-string issues

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Stallman
Conceptually, overlays and their properties have no association with surrounding text - at least no such association is mentioned anywhere. An overlay property - be it a face or a before-string - is associated with an overlay and nothing else. Sorry, I don't agree with you. Mo

Re: The trademark PostScript is incorrectly spelled

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Stallman
In the File menu the items starting with "Postscript Print" are incorrectly spelled. I think "incorrectly" is too strong a word for this, since it is up to us to decide how to write this. However, I would not mind if it were changed. The correct spelling is PostScript, could be

Re: Segmentation violation in display_string

2005-05-24 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "KFS" == Kim F Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KFS> Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> CVS Emacs dated 2005-05-23 often crashes with segmentation violation. KFS> Can you provide some additional info: KFS> p frame_title_ptr $1 = 0x0 KFS> p frame_title_buf

Re: ding - too often (OS X and in general)

2005-05-24 Thread Kim F. Storm
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quitting rings the bell because you do it with the bell character, > C-g. That's a relic from ASCII and TTY days. These days it really doesn't make sense on non-TTY platforms -- it's more like a bad joke. > Also, it works by causing something