Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system

2007-07-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:23:28 -0400 It is pure luck if an Info file was generated for the same character set that your terminal supports. That's not what

Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system

2007-07-09 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:56:12 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could easily change things so that the Local Variables section was always output if a @documentencoding was present. I don't see any particular

ido insists on trying to save ido.last

2007-07-09 Thread trentbuck
When I invoke Emacs with sudo emacs instead of sudo -H emacs Emacs runs with root priviledges, but $HOME is still set to /home/twb. /home is an NFS partition with root_squash on, so emacs does not have write permission to ~/.emacs.d/. When using ido, this results in an emacs that

RFE sql-mode sql-product variable

2007-07-09 Thread trentbuck
I have the following handy settings in my .emacs; they might usefully be included in Emacs. (put 'sql-product 'safe-local-variable 'symbolp) (eval-after-load sql '(define-key sql-mode-map (kbd C-c C-z) (lambda () (interactive) (let ((f (intern-soft (concat sql-

Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system

2007-07-09 Thread Richard Stallman
That is not a 100% solution for 100% of the problem, but it's a good compromise that works well in practice. You often advise others to shy away of purism and instead embrace practical compromises on the Right side of the 80-20 divide. Why not go with this advice in this

feature? dired-do-background-shell-command

2007-07-09 Thread Joe Corneli
I've looked around on the net and see some at least partial support for a function `dired-do-background-shell-command', but I am suprised that this feature isn't currently part of Emacs. (If there is a way to run commands in the background from within dired, it isn't documented in the info file

Re: no set button in Custom buffer

2007-07-09 Thread Chong Yidong
Katsumi Yamaoka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I run `customize-option', I don't see the Set button in the Custom buffer. Maybe this is caused by the recent changes in cus-edit.el. It's been moved to the toolbar. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing

Re: Info pages opened with an incorrect coding system

2007-07-09 Thread Karl Berry
I agree that it should be the default. Very well, I'll change that. but still produce the Local Variables section, because without 8-bit characters the result is a plain ASCII file. As you know, if the input uses 8-bit characters, the output will also use 8-bit characters,