Re: inconsistent childish MS bashing

2007-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:55:00 -0500 Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Should have been in quotes, since it's a citation (from Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Re: ps-print-buffer-with-faces in dark background

2007-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:23:46 + `ps-print-buffer-with-faces' will print a dark background buffer into a .ps file with white background. This makes the text difficult to read. This is a feature. See the variable ps-use-face-background for how to override

Re: Failure to submit second netnews message

2007-01-06 Thread Reiner Steib
On Fri, Jan 05 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still getting the error that I cannot submit two approved messages to a moderated mailing list without restarting emacs. We already asked you several time go give a complete, self-contained recipe (starting with emacs -Q) to reproduce the bug.

ps-print-buffer-with-faces doesn't use selected frame's background (was: ps-print-buffer-with-faces in dark background)

2007-01-06 Thread Leo
* Eli Zaretskii (2007-01-06 12:59 +0200) said: ^ `ps-print-buffer-with-faces' will print a dark background buffer into a .ps file with white background. This makes the text difficult to read. This is a feature. See the variable ps-use-face-background for how to override it. I

Re: Image scroll issue

2007-01-06 Thread Chris Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim F. Storm) writes: Great! Could you report this to the w3m maintainers. I reported it, and got a reply, as follows: Katsumi Yamaoka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for the bug report. I see the present behavior of displaying big images in emacs-w3m buffers

Re: Image scroll issue

2007-01-06 Thread Leo
* Chris Moore (2007-01-05 16:49 +0100) said: ^^^ Great! Could you report this to the w3m maintainers. Sure. One thing I still don't understand, however, is why timer-list is nil when I check it from inside Emacs, but Lisp_Object Vtimer_list in keyboard.c contains the w3m timer

Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work

2007-01-06 Thread Chris Moore
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you typed 'yes' and hit return to say you wanted to save your work, Emacs will have made a backup of the file you were overwriting in filename~. No, it didn't; I looked. The latest backup file I had was a

Re: ps-print-buffer-with-faces doesn't use selected frame's background (was: ps-print-buffer-with-faces in dark background)

2007-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:29:34 + * Eli Zaretskii (2007-01-06 12:59 +0200) said: ^ `ps-print-buffer-with-faces' will print a dark background buffer into a .ps file with white background. This makes the text difficult to read. This is a

Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work

2007-01-06 Thread Gregory Stark
Chris Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, it didn't; I looked. The latest backup file I had was a couple weeks old. OK. I didn't test this much, but I thought when I did that I saw it make a backup at that point. I think it will if it's the first

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2007-01-06 Thread Juri Linkov
As Jury corrected me, the problem is not with supporting the new format, the problem was that menus in the indices were not decorated as normal menus since long ago. I agree that we should consider revising this decision now, that the machines are so much faster. OK; I turned it on.

Re: query-replace-regexp slow for evaluated lisp expressions

2007-01-06 Thread Chris Moore
Aaron S. Hawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then, do the most basic of replacements that would never be done in practice, but shows how slow interactive regexp replacements can be: Or just replace it with \,\ for an even simpler test case. Does this patch fix the bug? --- old/replace.el

Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work

2007-01-06 Thread Chris Moore
Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it will if it's the first time you're saving the buffer since you created it. But I tend to keep my emacs processes live for weeks or even months. So I get one backup file and then no protection from then on. Right. I was getting confused. A

Re: say where attempt to write backup file was

2007-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
Actually there are a few other things we could do: 1 - try to keep messages short (which was my original point and is always the best solution when it's available). 2 - use scrolling if the message is larger than the minibuffer (IIRC there was some package back in

Re: inconsistent childish MS bashing

2007-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Should have been in quotes, since it's a citation (from Ralph Waldo Emerson). Another instance of foolish consistency. In writing code, consistency is often useful. In an email, it is much less important.

Re: Word boundaries in wdired mode

2007-01-06 Thread Richard Stallman
I think that `downcase-word' and friends should downcase word characters and not touch anything else. I am not necessarily opposed to this change in principle, but please let's not change this now. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2007-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Juri Linkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:09:52 +0200 Simply turning this on has an undesirable consequence that node names are now hidden in the index node, but it is very useful to see them! You see them when the mouse pointer hovers above the link. Why do you think

Re: inconsistent childish MS bashing

2007-01-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:47:04 -0500 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Should have been in quotes, since it's a citation (from Ralph Waldo Emerson). Another

scroll-bar face gets changed in a new frame

2007-01-06 Thread Leo
Hi all, I suspect this is a bug. Tested in GNU Emacs 22.0.92.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4) of 2007-01-07 on soup Start Emacs with emacs -q -l emacs-custom. where emacs-custom is this: ,[ emacs-custom ] | (custom-set-faces | ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. | ;; If