Re: Increasing font size

2005-09-04 Thread Tim X
Rajiv Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I increase font size if I am running emacs in console. I use > Debian Sarge. > > Rajiv > > If you are running emacs within the console, you will need to increase the console font size - nothing you cna do with emacs AFAIK. Debian does have some

Re: order of search in load-path

2005-09-03 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > I learned that emacs searches directly in the order in which they > appear in load-path, the first 2 items in my case is > > load-path's value is > ("/usr/independ_packages/cedet-1.0pre3/common/icons" > "/usr/independ_packages/cedet-1.0pre3/semanti

Re: change of variable name in 21.4

2005-09-03 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neon Absentius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:03:03PM +1000, Baloff wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I have been trying to find the name of the variable to change file > > > association with an application. according to the bo

Re: change of variable name in 21.4

2005-09-03 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > I have been trying to find the name of the variable to change file > association with an application. according to the book I am reading > it is called Dired-view-command-alist. but not in emacs 21.4a-1 under > Debian. does any one know what the nam

Re: How can I store myfile as pdf type using emacs?

2005-09-02 Thread Tim X
Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to store my file edited by emacs as pdf type. I wonder if there is one > .el file able to execute this function. > Can you tell me? > More information required. If you want to produce PDF files from within emacs, there are a number of solutions - all

Re: using Xresources for geometry

2005-08-30 Thread Tim X
Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > the last line I changed from 80x40 but no changes happened when I > > restarted emacs. > > Xresources is read once when you log into X. > Log in again to reread that file. > -- Or just run xrdb from an xt

Re: using Xresources for geometry

2005-08-30 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > in my Xresources I have > > emacs*Background: Black > emacs*Foreground: White > emacs*pointerColor: White > emacs*cursorColor: White > emacs*bitmapIcon: on > emacs*font: fixed > emacs*geometry: 160x80 > > the last line I changed from 80x40 but no chan

Re: complete the word

2005-08-14 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > when I create a new .cpp file, considering that I have in my .emacs > (add-hook 'c++-mode-hook > '(lambda () >(turn-on-auto-fill) ;;Insert a newline if line gets to long. > (c-toggle-auto-state 1) ;;Make ; and { and

Re: copy/paste to/from emacs

2005-08-10 Thread Tim X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Combs) writes: > 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 >

Re: Edit file write protected by superuser rigths

2005-08-09 Thread Tim X
Armin Goralczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > How can I edit a file that is write protected by superuser rights? I > can visit the file but it is read-only. I removed read-only > protection by C-x C-q (toggle-read-only) but after editing I cannot > save the file. Minibuffer says: > File fink.

Re: gmail

2005-08-06 Thread Tim X
Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I cannot seem to send mail to my gmail address frokm emacs. It simply > doesn't show up there. Works fine with my sbcglobal address. Any thoughts? > Way too little info to give any really meaningful assistance. Are you using the smtp server on your local bo

Re: defvaralias

2005-08-05 Thread Tim X
"Charles philip Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i read somewhere that in the NEWS (C-h n) defvaralias has an entry... > > C-h f defvaralias --> no entry > > I see what you mean now. > > > GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) > > of 2005-05-18 on decompo

Re: automatic expansion of multipart MIME messages

2005-08-04 Thread Tim X
makwak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > is it possible to automatically expand multipart messages to elements they > contain ? > Greetings > > Depends on which mail package your using. Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a com

Re: Read man page in Emacs

2005-08-04 Thread Tim X
Steven Woody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Steven Woody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> while i can read info in Emacs, how to i read a man page in Emacs? > >> > >> -- > >> ste

Re: Read man page in Emacs

2005-08-02 Thread Tim X
Steven Woody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > while i can read info in Emacs, how to i read a man page in Emacs? > > -- > steven woody (id: narke) > > Pepper...is hot and scorches, just like the sun > > - Politiki kouzina (2003) You have two choices M-x man and M-x woman Tim -- Tim

Re: Documentation

2005-07-30 Thread Tim X
Sean Sieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does this, > > ,[ C-h k C-x o ] > | C-x o runs the command other-window > | (other-window ARG &optional ALL-FRAMES) > |which is an interactive built-in function. > | > | Select the ARG'th different window on this frame. > | All windows on cur

Re: font size

2005-07-30 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > From: Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 29 Jul 2005 14:24:37 +1000 > > > > > > I am trying to change the font size. > > > after reading in info info on how to seach the info. I was able to > > > find in i

Re: Link between two buffers

2005-07-27 Thread Tim X
drkm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pascal Bourguignon writes: > > > drkm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Pascal Bourguignon writes: > > >>> There is follow-mode which does it vertically. Perhaps you could hack > >>> it to do it also horizontally, depending on how the windows are split > >>>

Re: changing the scratch mode

2005-07-26 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X wrote: > > Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Hello > >> > >>C-x b to get the scratch buffer, so I can type an email, ops the mode > >>line shows (Lisp Interaction), well I need th

Re: set mark and point around current line

2005-07-23 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > how can I find out what is the command to do somthing. > say I want to select "highlight" the current line to copy it to > another window. > do I (Set the mark and point around the current line) > M-w > change > window > C-y? > and btw, when you have ma

Re: changing the scratch mode

2005-07-23 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > C-x b to get the scratch buffer, so I can type an email, ops the mode > line shows (Lisp Interaction), well I need the mode assosiated with > .txt files, I remember when I open a file with .txt it had a (Text Fly > Fill) mode. now how can I change th

Re: auctex indentation

2005-07-23 Thread Tim X
Mads Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi NG, > > I am trying to configure the auctex indenting, but that's easier > said than done. Currently I have this in my .emacs: > > (setq LaTeX-item-indent 0 > LaTeX-indentation 4) > > But it's only LaTeX-item-indent, that works like I want, ie.

Re: applying changes in .emacs

2005-07-21 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > this is a command to apply chnages I just did to my .emacs to take > effect without having to reopen emacs. could someone say it? > > thanks Depending on what the changes are and how many of them you have, I usually just use the *scratch* buffer - put

Re: copy/paste to/from emacs

2005-07-21 Thread Tim X
Haizi Zheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to copy some text from emacs, and then paste it in another > application in X environment, you can have try as add the line below to > you .emacs file: > > (global-set-key [C-f11] 'clipboard-kill-ring-save) > > This will add a new bind, here

Re: copy/paste to/from emacs

2005-07-21 Thread Tim X
Baloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? > > thanks Try using middle mouse button to paste. Tim -- Tim Cross The

Re: Query Major Mode

2005-07-21 Thread Tim X
Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are lots of ways, depending on what you mean by query. Does `C-h m' > > do what you want? > > Oops! Poorly phrased question. My apologies. What I would like to > do is perform this query programmatically. > > Is that possible? > > Now

Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file

2005-06-28 Thread Tim X
Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am 27.06.2005 um 12:23 schrieb Klaus Berndl: > > > Is it possible with tar-mode (or other already existing elisp-code), to > > extract the full contents of a tar-file to a certain directory (or > > at least to > > default-directory)? > > There is an ea

Re: non-interactive extracting the contents of a tar-file

2005-06-28 Thread Tim X
Klaus Berndl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > > > Am 27.06.2005 um 12:23 schrieb Klaus Berndl: > > > > > Is it possible with tar-mode (or other already existing elisp-code), to > > > extract the full contents of a tar-file to a certain directory (or

Re: mouse pointer size

2005-06-24 Thread Tim X
Peyton Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I/m running emacs 21.3.1 under RH linux. I'd like to reduce the size > of the mouse pointer image. Just to be sure that I'm using the right > term, by this I mean the image (or glyph?) that is displayed on the > screen when the mouse is moved o

Re: rmail reply

2005-06-24 Thread Tim X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there a way to have emacs set so that whenever you reply to a > message it automatically yanks into your response the message you're > replying to? I.e., an automatic c-c c-y. Coworkers are unhappy with > me because I always forget to include their original email I

Re: Sql-Mode - getting query results from MS SQL Server 2000

2005-06-16 Thread Tim X
Brett Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sometime around Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:15:57PM -0600, Kevin Rodgers said: > > Brett Kelly wrote: > > > I'd like to be able to type in a sql query and have it return a > > resultset in a > > > different buffer (a la Query Analyzer). Here's what I'm doing

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

2005-06-09 Thread Tim X
David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know if this is a bug or not, so I'll post it here: > > 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 and I get a *Completions* buffer in > one frame, and when I then select the second frame

Re: Word Boundary problem with regex

2005-06-06 Thread Tim X
Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In case of word wrapping the text between (but not including) the lines > of asterisks should be on one line: > > I am using the following expression > *** > \\([^][ \t\r\n{}()]+\

Re: Emacs21 settings in Debian ?

2005-05-26 Thread Tim X
Vignoble101 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good morning all. > > I started my Linux adventure a couple of years ago with a Mandrake > distro. It was providing a version of Emacs - I wouldn't be able to > tell you which one - which was just doing quite well ! > > I spent a whole summer experiencin

Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

2005-05-24 Thread Tim X
Thierry Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, it seems pretty much any page with a relative link which is not > > relative to the document root of the server. An example is > > > > http://www.une.edu.au/itd/i

Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

2005-05-24 Thread Tim X
Thierry Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can you try http://www.une.edu.au/itd and then try one of the links on > > the page you get i.e. "About ITD" and see if that works for you. I've > >

Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

2005-05-24 Thread Tim X
Klaus Straubinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you try http://www.une.edu.au/itd and then try one of the links on > > the page you get i.e. "About ITD" and see if that works for you. > > That does not w

Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

2005-05-23 Thread Tim X
Klaus Straubinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > An example is > > > > http://www.une.edu.au/itd/index.html > > > > If you try to follow the "About ITD" link on that page, instead of > > gett

Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

2005-05-23 Thread Tim X
Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thierry Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > It seems that > > > there is a problem with relative links within w3 and I wanted to know > > > if any

Re: Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

2005-05-22 Thread Tim X
Thierry Emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It seems that > > there is a problem with relative links within w3 and I wanted to know > > if anyone else has seen this and possibly has a solution. > > I have never e

Emacs 21 and w3 on Debian

2005-05-22 Thread Tim X
This weekend, I thought it was about time I tried to work out why I have not been able to get emacs w3 working reliably. It seems that there is a problem with relative links within w3 and I wanted to know if anyone else has seen this and possibly has a solution. I'm running - Linux Debian Sid (T

Re: modify .emacs

2005-05-18 Thread Tim X
Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am 17.05.2005 um 14:55 schrieb Michael Dewar: > > > than one cons to auto-mode-alist you can merge them together. It was > said on this list that \\' is a more precise description of a file > name's end than $. When using more excessively the regular exp

Re: comment character

2005-05-18 Thread Tim X
"Rancier, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where is the comment character defined for each programming mode? C-u C-h a > didn't show me a variable name either. > Jeff > > Have a look at syntax tables in the emacs lisp reference to see what characters in a mode are treated as a comment characte

Re: Cursor change on loss of focus

2005-05-17 Thread Tim X
Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> I'm using Emacs 21.3.50.1 under Cygwin/X. > > [...] > >> Is there a way to turn the blinking block cursor into an empty block >> cursor when I move the focus to a different X window (i.e., a >> different, non-Emacs applic

Re: Help me with Emacs

2005-05-14 Thread Tim X
"Ronit Tajian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I downloaded Emacs 21.4 from > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-21.4a.tar.gz under Linux. > > Followed the instructions in the INSTALL text to install > it. Everything seems to went fine. When trying to run or open the > Emacs receive this error:

Re: Invoking electirc command programmatically

2005-05-10 Thread Tim X
PT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have this electric function which inserts the character it is bound > to and does something else too. > > (defun my-electric-character (&optional arg) >"Insert the typed character and pop up a completion buffer" >(interactive "P") >(self-insert-comma

Re: Emacs Xresource question

2005-05-04 Thread Tim X
Peter Dyballa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am 03.05.2005 um 14:46 schrieb Tim X: > >> Can anyone tell me what the x resource values are for this pop-up >> window? > > Could be these work: > > Emacs.dialog*.font: -*-new century > scho

Re: automatic time-stamp

2005-05-04 Thread Tim X
"Jeffrey L. Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to configure automatic time-stamp for emacs 21 in a Debian > Sarge system. I have the following .emacs file in my home directory. I > have read and re-read what seems to be the relevant pages in the hard > copy of Gnu Emacs Manual. Time

Re: Running bash inside emacs

2005-05-04 Thread Tim X
Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > >> Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I was wondering if it is possible to run a bash shell inside an emacs >>> buffer (where the up and down keys recall commands executed >>> in .bash_history and do not move

Emacs Xresource question

2005-05-04 Thread Tim X
I use .Xresources to set the various colors of my emacs. For example Emacs.Foreground: wheat Emacs.Background: black Emacs.pointerColor: white Emacs.cursorColor: red Emacs.menu.attributeForeground: snow1 Emacs.menu.attributeBackground: darkred Emacs.scrollBarBackground: midnightblue Emacs.mode-li

Re: [ELISP] Detect focus on emacs.

2005-05-03 Thread Tim X
Michael Cadilhac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I need to know if emacs has the global input focus, that's to say, >>> if emacs' window is the selected one in the wm. >> >> I don't think you can do that from elisp as of Emacs-22. >> Patches are w

Re: beginner el form

2005-05-01 Thread Tim X
Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thi, I think I agree. > > As an elisp novice, I'm dropping into it from time to time, and making > progress with the elisp manual and introduction. Am spending most of my > other time calling cmucl as a listener with c-x l and c-x c-e. The cmucl > documentation

Re: beginner el form

2005-04-30 Thread Tim X
Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yep. This originally was for an Elisp novice, to start putting together > components that could be cut+yanked and evaluated in part - in the one > buffer. Eventually "putting it all together" into the final form. > > As a novice - a little trial and error goes i

Re: Shortcut to change buffers?

2005-04-22 Thread Tim X
JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X wrote: > >> >> check your load-path variable is correct. C-h load-path >> check you have the correct read mode/permissions on the file >> >> Tim > > > When I press C-h I just get a *Help* buffer and I

Re: Can't load .el files

2005-04-22 Thread Tim X
JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Dyballa wrote: > >> >> Am 22.04.2005 um 12:18 schrieb JS: >> >>> (require 'tabbar) >>> (require 'pc-bufsw) >>> >> >> These files need to have provide staements. The require statement have >> to match what's being provided. > > Finally some progress! I now

Re: Shortcut to change buffers?

2005-04-22 Thread Tim X
JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim X wrote: > >> JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Quokka wrote: >>> >>>> Ryan Bowman wrote: >>>>>>>> Is there a shortcut combination that lets you >>>>>>

Re: Shortcut to change buffers?

2005-04-22 Thread Tim X
JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quokka wrote: > >> Ryan Bowman wrote: >> Is there a shortcut combination that lets you shift between the >> different buffers? > >> >> I use tabbar mode, this provides a nice graphical display >> of the buffers and provides functions for

Re: Problems with global-set-key

2005-04-22 Thread Tim X
JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my .emacs file I have made this: > > (global-set-key "\C-z" 'shell) > > And it works fine when I restart emacs. > > > > > But when I do this: > > (global-set-keyÂ"\M-a"Â'comment-dwim) > > I get this error when I restart: > > > > > An error has occurred while loa

Re: customize versus own expressions in .emacs

2005-04-11 Thread Tim X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. David Boyd) writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. David Boyd) writes: >> >> >>> Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> >>>> What I found works well for me is t

Re: customize versus own expressions in .emacs

2005-04-07 Thread Tim X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. David Boyd) writes: > Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> What I found works well for me is to put a bit of elisp at the >> beginning of my .emacs file which tells emacs to look in my own >> .emacs.d directory and load the files in

Re: customize versus own expressions in .emacs

2005-04-01 Thread Tim X
Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I began using Emacs a little over a year now, I've been mixing my > own entries with those made by the Customize interface in my ~/.emacs. As > I learned more and started using more libraries, it has become more > difficult to maintain this file