Re: [gmane.emacs.help] Re: raise frame no go

2007-01-07 Thread Jan Djärv
Eli Zaretskii skrev: Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:42:19 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Metacity (the default Gnome window manager) is a complete mess when it comes to raise frame. Some versions works, some don't. Some require the cod

Re: Calc broken in Emacs unicode-2 branch

2007-01-07 Thread Leo
Can someone give me a hint what has screwed up calc? Another error: 1. Start calc with "C-x * *" 2. 'x 3. a i x ,[ error ] | Preparing rule set IntegAfterRules... | if: Syntax error: [ | opt(a) ln(x) + opt(b) ln(y) := 2 a esimplify(arctanh(x-1)) | :: a + b = 0 :: nrat(x

Re: emacs server fails to start with large uid on unix

2007-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
Does this fix it? *** server.el 27 Nov 2006 21:05:42 -0500 1.124 --- server.el 07 Jan 2007 23:00:49 -0500 *** *** 198,204 (defvar server-name "server") (defvar server-socket-dir ! (format "/tmp/emacs%d" (user-uid))) (defun server-log (string &optional

Re: inconsistent childish MS bashing

2007-01-07 Thread Richard Stallman
You don't seem to like it when people refer to GNU/Linux as anything other than GNU/Linux, and yet you're happy to refer MS-DOS as MS-DOG? Yes, I am. Calling it MS-DOG is impolite. That is ok. Microsoft is not entitled to politeness. ___ ema

Re: emacs server fails to start with large uid on unix

2007-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a large unix uid: > $ id > uid=800154870(ruttbe) gid=705(www) > it seems the emacs server of pretest 92 can't cope with this, possibly > b/c of the limit on emacs lisp's integer size. perhaps calc should be > used, as it can handle bignums? also `file-attributes' may have a problem > w

Re: [:upper:] inconsistency

2007-01-07 Thread Johan Bockgård
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +;; Even if there's no uppercase char, we want to detect the use of > +;; [:upper:] char-class. Similarly, it would make sense for [:lower:] to disable case-folding. -- Johan Bockgård ___

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2007-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Menu item names in any other menu are often just a modified version > of the node name, so it makes sense to hide node names as e.g. in: [...] > Unlike this, index entry names contain no information about node names > to which they belong, and it is helpful to see them, e.g.: Agreed, S

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2007-01-07 Thread Juri Linkov
>> From: Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:52:54 +0200 >> >> > Why do you think it's more important to see the node names in the >> > index than it is in any other menu? >> >> Menu item names in any other menu are often just a modified v

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2007-01-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Juri Linkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:52:54 +0200 > > > Why do you think it's more important to see the node names in the > > index than it is in any other menu? > > Menu item names in any other menu are often just a modified version >

emacs server fails to start with large uid on unix

2007-01-07 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I have a large unix uid: $ id uid=800154870(ruttbe) gid=705(www) it seems the emacs server of pretest 92 can't cope with this, possibly b/c of the limit on emacs lisp's integer size. perhaps calc should be used, as it can handle bignums? also `file-attributes' may have a problem with this larg

Re: [:upper:] inconsistency

2007-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I would expect the regexp [[:upper:]] to behave the same as [A-Z] (in > English text). However, by default [[:upper:]] matches all letters, > whereas [A-Z] matches only upper case letters, as I expect. Hmm... I can't see to get A-Z to only match upper-case letters ... Oh I see what you mean now

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 1/7/07, Francis Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just for the record, the patch I was referring to was the one you sent me before Christmas in response to my previous emacsclient bug report. Aha. Sorry about that! I'll have to investigate further. OK, thanks for taking the time to det

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Francis Wright
From: "Juanma Barranquero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Francis Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 6:37 PM Subject: Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP On 1/7/07, Francis Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This did not happen with emacsclient 22.0.91 (w

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 1/7/07, Francis Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That appears to be the latest pretest release, although it was dated about 20th December, as I recall. So maybe this problem is fixed in the latest version. I'll see if the CVS version works better. Thanks. /L/e/k/t/u

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 1/7/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think Juanma wanted to ask whether you used an unpatched or a patched version. Yes, sorry. (But as you said yourself, most people that downloads from your site gets the patched version, so I think the mistake is understandable :)

Re: replace.el documentation typo

2007-01-07 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 1/7/07, Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -whole match, `\\N' a partial matches, `\\#&' and `\\#N' the +whole match, `\\N' a partial match, `\\#&' and `\\#N' the Committed, thanks. /L/e/k/t/u ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailin

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

2007-01-07 Thread Chris Moore
"Aaron S. Hawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Or just replace it with \,\& for an even simpler test case. > > Damn right. Or: \,& makes it one character shorter, and gives lie to replace-match-string-symbols's docstring. It turns out that & doesn

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Juanma Barranquero wrote: On 1/7/07, Francis Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emacsclient -a runemacs "Tablet Buttons.txt" emacsclient: connect: No error I don't see that. runemacs.exe is run normally. Are you using a CVS Emacs, or Lennart's prebuilt binary? (I ask because Lennart's conta

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Francis Wright
From: "Juanma Barranquero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Francis Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:54 PM Subject: Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP On 1/7/07, Francis Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emacsclient -a runemacs "Tablet Buttons.txt"

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 1/7/07, Francis Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This did not happen with emacsclient 22.0.91 (with the patch to handle quoting of filenames in MS Windows). The only recent patch to emacsclient affecting the running of the alternate editor is the one you mention (quoting arguments with emb

replace.el documentation typo

2007-01-07 Thread Chris Moore
--- old/replace.el 2007-01-07 19:23:43.0 +0100 +++ replace.el 2007-01-07 19:24:06.0 +0100 @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ In interactive calls, the replacement text may contain `\\,' followed by a Lisp expression used as part of the replacement text. Inside of that expression, `\\&' i

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: Francis Wright wrote: When emacsclient needs to start Emacs as an alternate editor it now outputs an error message that says there is, in fact, no error. It then starts Emacs correctly. If run again, while Emacs is still running, there is no problem. The error

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Francis Wright wrote: When emacsclient needs to start Emacs as an alternate editor it now outputs an error message that says there is, in fact, no error. It then starts Emacs correctly. If run again, while Emacs is still running, there is no problem. The error message is illustrated below.

Re: emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On 1/7/07, Francis Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emacsclient -a runemacs "Tablet Buttons.txt" emacsclient: connect: No error I don't see that. runemacs.exe is run normally. Are you using a CVS Emacs, or Lennart's prebuilt binary? (I ask because Lennart's contains quite a few changes in

Calc broken in Emacs unicode-2 branch

2007-01-07 Thread Leo
Hi, Trying units conversion in (info "(calc)Demonstration of Calc"), I hit an error like this, , | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Format error in definition of mfi in units table: Expected a number") | signal(error ("Format error in definition of mfi in units table: Expected a numb

emacsclient - bogus error message on Windows XP

2007-01-07 Thread Francis Wright
When emacsclient needs to start Emacs as an alternate editor it now outputs an error message that says there is, in fact, no error. It then starts Emacs correctly. If run again, while Emacs is still running, there is no problem. The error message is illustrated below. It is not a huge proble

[:upper:] inconsistency

2007-01-07 Thread Francis Wright
Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I would expect the regexp [[:upper:]] to behave the same as [A-Z] (in English text). However, by default [[:upper:]] matches all letters, whereas [A-Z] matches only upper case letters, as I expect. I hav

Re: say where attempt to write backup file was

2007-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 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: query-replace-regexp slow for evaluated lisp expressions

2007-01-07 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Quoting Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "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. Damn r

Re: Manual: indexes are missing links

2007-01-07 Thread Juri Linkov
>> 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. No, t

Re: inconsistent childish MS bashing

2007-01-07 Thread Chris Moore
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, we don't have to be consistent in our childishness. > A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. You don't seem to like it when people refer to GNU/Linux as anything other than GNU/Linux, and yet you're happy to refer MS-DOS as MS-