Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP

2005-08-24 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brett Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Labrat toolkit has many, many good unix utils ported to win32: > >http://labrattech.com/project/labrattoolkit/ > >(Sorry if this has already been mentioned, I caught this thread half-way >through) > >Brett > Could you ple

Re: Edit file write protected by superuser rigths

2005-08-24 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Am 09.08.2005 um 19:58 schrieb Armin Goralczyk: > >> I was hoping I could do it from within emacs, so the above and 'sudo >> emacs file' (as suggested by whd) are not really a solution to my >> problem > >Do you know the

Re: New balance-windows

2005-08-20 Thread David Combs
I did grab the entire thread, but not being an elisp-hacker, not at all, please say: . Of all those various solutions/attemps/whatever, what seems like the "best" one? . More importantly, I guess, are any (of those that work) able to be simply "loaded" into a running emacs, eg cvs, and thus

Re: copy/paste to/from emacs

2005-08-09 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Tfardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Baloff wrote: >> Hello >> ok, the title says it all, I cann't copy from emacs and paste into say >> Mozilla or any other program and this is true from other programs to >> emacs as well. what is the fix? > >What OS? win? lin

Re: Problem With Emacs Lisp Mode

2005-07-04 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > >You're running Emacs-CVS, i.e. unreleased software with weird bugs. >As explained in the file INSTALL.CVS, report problems via >M-x report-emacs-bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, just how do I run M-x report-emacs-bug and

Re: C-x C-f in two frames -> "user minibuffer while in

2005-07-03 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Am 08.06.2005 um 15:18 schrieb David Reitter: >> >>> If I open a second frame, then do C-x C-f in one of them and press tab >>> so that the window is split

Re: how the H*** tp get cvs-emacs? (I use cmds given HERE!)

2005-04-06 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Combs) writes: > >> Here's an attempt: >> >> >> >> | 268 ==/dkcjunk==> cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/emacs login >> | Logging

Re: how the H*** tp get cvs-emacs? (I use cmds given HERE!)

2005-04-06 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/emacs > >There is no more pserver access. >See http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs > > >Stefan Ok -- I went to cvshome.org, and saw this:

how the H*** tp get cvs-emacs? (I use cmds given HERE!)

2005-04-06 Thread David Combs
Here's an attempt: | 268 ==/dkcjunk==> cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/emacs login | Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvsroot/emacs | CVS password: To which prompt I simply hit . After which it just sits there. So, I finally hit a few returns, then said "xxx": | |

Re: Compiling Emacs with GTK

2005-03-16 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lee Sau Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think the PageUp/PageDown keys are more intuitive than the wheel. >And guess what C-PageUp and C-PageDown do in Emacs! Well, THANK YOU FOR THAT! I never would have known it but for your two lines there! No? But

Re: Using undumped Emacs

2005-03-08 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thien-Thi Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I do: ./temacs -l loadup > >you can try: > >TERM=vt100 ; ./temacs -l loadup > >this is not optimal but if you are inclined, it makes further debugging >easier. under vms, for example

Re: Where to buy Elisp Ref manual?

2005-03-06 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, harry_bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >J Krugman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd love to buy a printed version of the latest edition of the >> Emacs Lisp Reference Manual from the FSF but apparently they don't >> sell it anymore. I know that I can download the

Jamie Zawinski's "Emacs Timeline" (1975-2003) (drawing)

2005-03-04 Thread David Combs
LYNX's info *about* the page: Linkname: Emacs Timeline URL: http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html Charset: iso-8859-1 (assumed) Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 PHP/4.3.10 FrontPage/5.0.2.2623 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:49:24 GMT Last Mod: Mon, 03 Jan 20

Re: tail call reduction

2005-03-02 Thread David Combs
>Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ... >> I recommend you check out the lexbind branch which introduces static scoping For those who aren't users of the cvs and other such programs, where do you get this lexbind emacs-version? Thanks, David ___

Re: Problem: Keymap not working...

2005-03-02 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neon Absentius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:36:05PM +0100, upro wrote: >>(btw: How do I get the minibuffer output >> [e. g. on M-x emacs.version] to point in the main buffer?). > >Maybe there is a smarter way but this works. Use eval-expres

Occur: "no matches for ": KILL *occur*, please

2005-02-23 Thread David Combs
You do an M-x occur, which succeeds and gives you a *Occur*. Now you do a different M-x occur, and there's NO matches this second time. So what does emacs do? Leaves *Occur* untouched, but does report "no matches for ..." down in the minibuf. Well, that minibuf is by definition the furthest-awa

Re: modeline should note file gotten-via-symlink

2005-02-22 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does it help to customize the variable find-file-visit-truename to a >non-nil value? Not sure that's what I want. What I really want to know is that I *arrived* there via a *SYMLINK* -- maybe shouted out at me in upperc

Re: modeline should note file gotten-via-symlink

2005-02-22 Thread David Combs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Click" (hit ) on it, and you end up with a buffer named >> run-tools.smd (the name of the symlink), the buffer's *contents* being the >> pointed-to file "run-tools--16.29.8.smd". > >> Fine and good; nice rms-DWIM, does w

How plain (non-dir!) file gets marked "[(dired by name)]"?

2005-02-21 Thread David Combs
[Note: I'm using "/opt/sfw/share/emacs/21.2/".] I have no idea how I might of caused this -- making emacs think of a regular file as "[(dired by name)]". Ideas? --- ok, here's the code (from dired.el): | (defun dired-sort-set-modeline () | ;; Set modeline display according to dired-ac

ediff: ability to resynch would be *NEATO*

2005-02-21 Thread David Combs
Sometimes ediff (diff?) gets confused, and thereafter never gets back in synch; ie, is mismatching what it's comparing. But suppose *I* know where (one point in A, another in B) they're back in sync. I'd sure like to set the two "points" (in buf A and in B) to those places, and then say to ediff

dired R-cmd thru symlink: destinationFiles NOT marked "*"

2005-02-21 Thread David Combs
The dired R (mv) cmd, when the "to" file (dir, actually) "/partitionONE/mydirs/foodir-via-symlink", say, is actually a SYMLINK to the "real" dir, "/partitionTWO/mydirs/foodir", say, the files that got moved into that second dir do NOT get their dired-entries marked "*". Is this a "feature", or som

modeline should note file gotten-via-symlink

2005-02-21 Thread David Combs
>From the dired for .../4msnew: | -rw-r--r-- 1 dkc other 4509 Aug 29 18:11 run-tools--16.29.8.smd | | lrwxrwxrwx 1 dkc other 22 Aug 29 17:56 run-tools.smd -> run-tools--16.29.8.smd , note that run-tools.smd is a symlink. "Click" (hit ) on it, and you end up with