Re: describe-mode doc string doesn't describe BUFFER arg

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Stallman
The BUFFER arg needs to be described, and, in particular, it's type (string or buffer) needs to be mentioned. That arg exists for internal purposes; we do not need to advertise it. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Stallman
So a brief list of key kombinations to avoid using would be: Alt-Tab, Alt-Shift-Tab, Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down, Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down Alt-Escape, Ctrl-Alt-Escape Alt-Print, Ctrl-Print Ctrl-Alt-Delete Alt-Fkey (i.e. F1,

save-some-buffers ought to be in the menus

2006-12-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
save-some-buffers ought to be in the menus, under File. Advanced users, such as myself, use it all the time. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

ibuffer vs. double width characters

2006-12-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, looking at ibuffer, MR NameSize Mode Filename/Process -- [ Default ] % *BBDB*47 BBDB % *Help* 942 Help % maintenance

unique UTF-8 file names

2006-12-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
With UTF-8 filenames, Find file: ~/bus/wiki/首頁 TAB says complete, but not unique. But another TAB reveals Possible completions are: 首頁 Whereas for ASCII names it would have correctly said Sole completion. (Debian emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20060923-1) sorry so old but didn't go to

Re: Broken C-b remapped to ... advice in tutorial.

2006-12-25 Thread Chong Yidong
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose I rebind C-v. Instead of displaying a line ** C-v has been rebound, but you can use next instead [More] ** at every instance of C-v in the tutorial, now that line appears the first time C-v appears in the tutorial; both C-v

RE: describe-mode doc string doesn't describe BUFFER arg

2006-12-25 Thread Drew Adams
The BUFFER arg needs to be described, and, in particular, it's type (string or buffer) needs to be mentioned. That arg exists for internal purposes; we do not need to advertise it. What makes it for internal purposes only? Why wouldn't a Lisp programmer use it? I use it, for instance.

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-25 Thread Lennart Borgman
Richard Stallman wrote: So a brief list of key kombinations to avoid using would be: Alt-Tab, Alt-Shift-Tab, Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down, Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down Alt-Escape, Ctrl-Alt-Escape Alt-Print, Ctrl-Print

RE: infinite recursion in describe-mode

2006-12-25 Thread Drew Adams
Yes! Thanks very much. Does this fix it? ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-25 Thread Jan Djärv
Richard Stallman skrev: So a brief list of key kombinations to avoid using would be: Alt-Tab, Alt-Shift-Tab, Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab Ctrl-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down, Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Left/Right/Up/Down Alt-Escape, Ctrl-Alt-Escape Alt-Print, Ctrl-Print

doc string of `interactive' for `N'

2006-12-25 Thread Drew Adams
The doc string says this for code `N' in `interactive: Raw prefix arg, or if none, do like code `n'. However, the Elisp manual says this: The numeric prefix argument; but if there is no prefix argument, read a number as with `n'. I imagine that the latter (numeric arg) is correct, not the

Re: Emacs Manual: G.5 Keyboard Usage on MS-Windows

2006-12-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:53:26 -0500 So a brief list of key kombinations to avoid using would be: Alt-Tab, Alt-Shift-Tab, Ctrl-Tab,

Re: bootstrap failed on Windows XP

2006-12-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Zhang Wei [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 14:29:09 +0800 I removed the src/config.h and run configure.bat to regenerate it agian, this time make bootstrap succeed, thanks. Thanks for testing. It looks like configure.bat is too simpleminded about when to replace src/config.h,

Re: National Language Support Functions

2006-12-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Kenichi Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:17:42 +0900 I couldn't compile the second program (saved as mstest.c) by gcc in my Cygwin environment. This is the error log. [IBM-F5F27A11743:~:516] gcc mstest.c

Re: adieu *scratch*

2006-12-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Anyways, *Messages* is a much more educational buffer to be left staring at then *scratch*. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order

2006-12-25 Thread Jason Rumney
Drew Adams wrote: 1. Reminder: The bug report was about the default order of options in a custom buffer. If it were alphabetical, users could find options there easier. I can't think of any other program that orders its options alphabetically by default. Usually they are grouped by

Re: National Language Support Functions

2006-12-25 Thread Jason Rumney
Kenichi Handa wrote: I couldn't compile the second program (saved as mstest.c) by gcc in my Cygwin environment. This is the error log. To compile a native Windows program with Cygwin gcc, you need to use -mno-cygwin. ___ emacs-pretest-bug

Re: save-some-buffers ought to be in the menus

2006-12-25 Thread Kim F. Storm
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: save-some-buffers ought to be in the menus, under File. Advanced users, such as myself, use it all the time. Advanced users don't use the menus :-) -- Kim F. Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cua.dk ___

Re: National Language Support Functions

2006-12-25 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eli Zaretskii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try passing the -mno-cygwin switch to GCC. Ah. Thank you. This is the result. Program1: SYS: 0x411, USR: 0x411 Program2: LangID = SYS: 0x411, USR: 0x411 LCID = SYS: 0x411, USR: 0x411 GetUserDefaultUILanguage() = 0411

Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Stallman
I do not want a discussion about redesigning the Custom interface now. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order

2006-12-25 Thread Drew Adams
I do not want a discussion about redesigning the Custom interface now. Of course not. If the default sort order cannot be changed now, can the custom sort options at least be autoloaded? That would let users know that there is a workaround available.

Re: isearch-forward-regexp and isearch-backward-regexp return differing search results

2006-12-25 Thread Dieter Wilhelm
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Forward and backward regexp search are not symmetrical. This is explained in the Lisp Manual. Thanks, I understand, this is a limitation but probably of a sort one can live with. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany

Re: successful install emacs22

2006-12-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:21:27 +0100 From: Olivier Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have done a successful install of emacs 22. Here is my config.log. Thank you for your report. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org