RJC> The /etc/emacs/site-start.el file and the contents of the RJC> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ directory are both installed RJC> autmatically when Emacs is installed You are using a Debian system with
RJC> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ directory are both installed RJC> autmatically when Emacs is installed You are using a Debian system with a packaged Emacs, and I claim my £5! Various bets are off. Th
I hope I'm not mistaken, but I think that all that Debian does is to distribute a pre-built site-start.el file. Does including a site-start.el file imply that the Emacs distribution is `hacked up'? S
Right. The Debian distribution is also a `hacked-down' distribution. By default, Debian does not to install a good part of the plain text documentation -- that is to say, it does not install the .el
There are a number of frame options that can only be customized via default-frame-alist (e.g., `cursor-type', `internal-border-width'). However, customizing default-frame-alist often has unintuitive
Thanks for all of the help. I had not known about the PROBLEMS solution or the file for that matter. I patched 2.02c and it was not straight forward as some of the functions moved between files but
Miles> function to provide a solution to this problem. I Miles> basically added the INHERIT parameter: Miles> (defun face-attribute (face attribute &optional frame inherit) Miles> "Return the value
Ah, that is good -- not only is it cleaner, but because a buffer-local variable would be bound when visiting the file, `eval-defun' and `eval-region' would automagically do the right thing! As far as
It seems that the cause of this is the fact that mode-line-format is not just a list of symbols. If it was a list of symbols, one for each field, then it would be easy to move them around. I think mo
Do the strings "eos::toolbar-run-icon" etc. ring a bell to someone here? What add-on package can this user be using, and can it be that this add-on package is incompatible with Emacs 21? TIA -- Start
I agree that "total" is not very different, but it has the advantage of coming straight from `ls's mouth, so users are supposed to be used to see it and know what it means. I guess `ls' prints "total
[...] Why is it a problem that two different strings have the same printed representation? We already have a similar situation with several other strings, like Latin-1 and Latin-2 strings which use c
The change I made a while ago to register-char-codings makes my (non-default) configuration of Mule-UCS very slow to load. It probably needs himi to say why exactly, but that function is probably ca
Thanks for looking at the patch, I will need a night or two more to clean it up some more based on your comments. The AM_PATH_LIBGNUTLS macro is supposed to take care of this, it uses the M4 macros i
I'll let Richard and others answer this; I'm not sure I'm knowledgeable enough to advise on these matters. Personally, I define variables in Lisp when they either are of interest to Lisp programs or
What do you think of gnutls.el? It contains variable definitions used by C defuns. Maybe I should move these defvars into C? The problem is that there are maybe a hundred more of them, from the gnutl
`make all' only does the C compiling. You need to do cvs update (cd lisp; make recompile) make all I also occasionally do (cd lisp; make updates), although this might not be necessary if you use the
Okay. Right, now I see. I didn't think about that. Good idea. But if handle-save-yourself is in C, it should be able to call the save session hooks by itself, and then do what x-sm-interact-done doe
Yes, that would be a possibility, but in lisp you (and others) have much more freedom to tune the behaviour, such as defining the cancel-shutdown variable, store everything in one file, etc. I think
Using C-u M-. one can search for more tags. We (not me, please!) can change find-tag so that, before looking in the TAGS buffer for more tags, the current buffer is searched backwards from point for