Re: "emacs -f gnus" shows the splashscreen instead of Gnus

2005-11-10 Thread Matthieu Moy
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few weeks ago, starting "emacs -f gnus" was opening Emacs with Gnus > directly open. > > What version of Emacs sources were you using then? An up-to-date version of Mile's [EMAIL PROTECTED]/emacs--cvs-trunk--0 > I don't think any chan

Re: "emacs -f gnus" shows the splashscreen instead of Gnus

2005-11-10 Thread Kim F. Storm
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We want people to see the splash screen more. Why not use the splash screen as a "screen saver", i.e. if emacs has been idle for N seconds, show the splash screen (of course, people should have a chance to turn this off). -- Kim F. Storm <[EM

Re: set-window-point

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Roberts
Richard M. Stallman writes: > I mean set-window-point doesn't change point and the cusor remains where > it was (at the start of the buffer). > > Whether that is a bug depends on the rest of the window configuration. > What was that configuration? What windows did you have, and what

Re: menu-updating-frame is nil on X

2005-11-10 Thread Juri Linkov
> Does the following patch give good results? > > Index: src/xmenu.c > === > RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/xmenu.c,v > retrieving revision 1.295 > diff -u -r1.295 xmenu.c > --- src/xmenu.c 7 Aug 2005 12:33:19 - 1.2

mac/make-package fails to accept "-C, --enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application\ Support/Emacs/calendar22:/Library/Application\ Support/Emacs/preview:/Library/Application\ Support/Emacs/auctex/image

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Hello! When I try make Carbon Emacs become aware of some fine or localized software and I try to use --enable-locallisppath to pass the values to the configure script, configure when invoked from make-package fails like this: ++ expr x--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application :

Re: "M-x locate" regression

2005-11-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
The patch I sent yesterday was silly. I send an alternative patch below, which I will install if there are no objections. I forgot about the 'string arg to file-attributes (I should have reread the docs). The patch below passes the 'string arg to `file-attributes' and everything works OK, includ

No highlight in compilation-minor-mode when hi-lock-mode is on

2005-11-10 Thread Klaus Zeitler
Symptoms: 1. start emacs -Q --no-site-file 2. M-x hi-lock-mode 3. C-x C-F buffer is now in fundamental mode, nothing is highlighted 4. M-x compilation-minor-mode => buffer is not highlighted But if I turn compilation mode off and on again, the buffer gets highlighted. If emacs crashed, and y

apropos-regexp variable void

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Input: M-x apropos RET ^run-hooks Output apropos-score-symbol: Symbol's value as variable is void: apropos-regexp In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10) of 2005-11-10 on olgas X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000 configured using `con

Re: menu-updating-frame is nil on X

2005-11-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:08:05 +0200 > > > Does the following patch give good results? > > > > Index: src/xmenu.c > > === > > RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/sr

Re: apropos-regexp variable void

2005-11-10 Thread Romain Francoise
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apropos-score-symbol: Symbol's value as variable is void: apropos-regexp This use had escaped the renaming to `apropos-pattern', I fixed it. Thanks. -- Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The sea! the sea! the open it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.

Re: "emacs -f gnus" shows the splashscreen instead of Gnus

2005-11-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Why not use the splash screen as a "screen saver", i.e. if emacs has been idle for N seconds, show the splash screen (of course, people should have a chance to turn this off). Would people like that? I think it would be very annoying? ___

Re: set-window-point

2005-11-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
> Whether that is a bug depends on the rest of the window configuration. > What was that configuration? What windows did you have, and what > buffers did they display, and which one was selected, and which window > did you do this in? Does it really depend on these things?

Re: "emacs -f gnus" shows the splashscreen instead of Gnus

2005-11-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
There is a switch -no-splash to inhibit the splash screen if that is what you want to do. Does that resolve the problem? ___ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list Emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
I've found a problem where my mh-letter-mode-hook (in MH-E) isn't getting called. It is listed properly in the custom-set-variables stanza, but when I start Emacs, load MH-E, and run customize-option on mh-letter-mode-hook, the hook is empty! When I enter the hook function, the hook works again. I

Re: File names with accented Latin characters are not displayed correctly

2005-11-10 Thread James Cloos
> "Miles" == Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Miles> If you're using the CVS emacs-unicode-2 branch, you will get Miles> the same thing because that CVS branch is updated via my arch Miles> branch. Is there a list that tracks changes applied to either the emacs-unicode-2 branch in CVS

OS X: Character Palette input doesn't work

2005-11-10 Thread David Reitter
In the Carbon port, one cannot use the "Character Palette" to input characters into Emacs. The original report came from an Aquamacs user. It's easy to insert a Unicode character in a window from a Keyboard Viewer (e.g. a cyrillic character from an Ukrainian keyboard) but I cannot insert a Un

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Bill Wohler wrote: I've found a problem where my mh-letter-mode-hook (in MH-E) isn't getting called. It is listed properly in the custom-set-variables stanza, but when I start Emacs, load MH-E, and run customize-option on mh-letter-mode-hook, the hook is empty! When I enter the hook fu

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
>From my previous message: custom-set-variables defcustom defvar and the defvar looses, as it should. The defvar looses in the struggle for the value, but the defvar wins in as far as the docstring is concerned, which might be a problem for you. To avoid this you could do: defcustom defi

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've found a problem where my mh-letter-mode-hook (in MH-E) isn't > getting called. It is listed properly in the custom-set-variables > stanza, but when I start Emacs, load MH-E, and run customize-option on > mh-letter-mode-hook, the hook is empty! When I

Re: apropos-regexp variable void

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> apropos-score-symbol: Symbol's value as variable is void: apropos-regexp > > This use had escaped the renaming to `apropos-pattern', I fixed it. > Thanks. Confirmed fixed, thanks! p.s. Saw the following w

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > custom-set-variables defvar defcustom: > > The defvar wins. Thanks very much for the explanation. Too bad I didn't read this before sending my last note. I evidently got confused when I ran my last test. After loading MH-E, I found that the list I prev

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Bill Wohler wrote: There are two solutions 1. Preserve the Emacs 21 semantics which had the effect of remembering customization settings in customize-set-variables so that when the modules were eventually loaded, the user's settings took precendence. In as far as I can se

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
I'm still a bit confused though. For example, mh-show-mode-hook is defined implicitly by the definition of mh-show-mode in mh-utils.el which requires mh-customize.el which contains the defcustom of mh-show-mode-hook. Shouldn't that defcustom have won against the defvar in the mh-show

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Luc Teirlinck
Bill Wohler wrote: Also, why does the same code work in Emacs 21 and not in Emacs 22? I believe that I answered this in an earlier reply, but maybe you had not yet read that reply when you asked this. Sincerely, Luc. ___ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Luc Teirlinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Wohler wrote: > >Also, why does the same code work in Emacs 21 and not in Emacs 22? > > I believe that I answered this in an earlier reply, but maybe you had > not yet read that reply when you asked this. Yes, that is correct. I liked your pro

Re: set-window-point

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Roberts
> > Whether that is a bug depends on the rest of the window configuration. > > What was that configuration? What windows did you have, and what > > buffers did they display, and which one was selected, and which window > > did you do this in? > > Does it really depen

Re: apropos-regexp variable void

2005-11-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> p.s. Saw the following when compiling: > In end of data: > apropos.el:963:1:Warning: the function `help-buffer' is not known to be > defined. It's harmless. The problem is that the byte-compiler doesn't think hard enough: help-setup-xref is autoloaded from help-mode.el, so after the call t

Re: custom-set-variables fails to set variable

2005-11-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> revision 1.2 > date: 2003/07/23 00:00:13; author: gm; state: Exp; lines: +5 -1 > branches: 1.2.2; > (define-derived-mode): Mention hook in doc string. Defvar the derived > hook. > Maybe someone familiar with that code can take it out... I'll gladly take it out if nobody

Re: apropos-regexp variable void

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > p.s. Saw the following when compiling: > > > In end of data: > > apropos.el:963:1:Warning: the function `help-buffer' is not known to be > > defined. > > It's harmless. Harmless or not, we don't allow any compiler errors in MH-E so that any real

Re: "emacs -f gnus" shows the splashscreen instead of Gnus

2005-11-10 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I think it would be good if there was some obvious indicator on the splash screen that would make the true state of affairs obvious. That seems like a good idea. For instance, what about a line following the big logo picture like: Files to be visited: foo.c bar.c The files