TEI Emacs f/Win Unable to set Variables

[Edward Westin]

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Subject: TEI Emacs f/Win Unable to set Variables
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Here is the main issue:
I am having a problem with an two installation of TEI
Emacs, one to a Windows 98 machine PIII, 866Mhz, 256
Megs of Ram, and another to an XP Home 1.54Ghz 500 Meg
HP Pavilion Laptop.  The behavior on both machines is
identical.  I installed from your download page to
both machines and the installation appeared to go
flawlessly on both.  TEI Emacs came up without a
problem and Emacs seemed to be working perfectly. As
instructed in the opening dialog, I openend an .xml
file and inserted a template and this was perfect, the
menues appeared beautifully.  However, when I went to
M-x customize group RET font-lock RET, Go to parent
group: FACES, the second item from the top Frame
Background Mode will not allow itself to set itself
from "default" to "dark."  I get a message in the
minibuffer saying: "Symbols function definition is
void: nil."  If I try to work with the item below it,
"Show Paren Match Face," and click on the Tab "Hide
Face" after (sample) the line under this changes to
State: Unknown, you should not see this.  Clicking on
"State" gives me a choice in this case to save
settings, but when I do so, I get the same "Symbols
function definition is void: nil."  This happens
everywhere on that page.  Also, right after starting
the program under Tools>Color Themes, I am able to
select a color them but when I try to save it under
Options>Save Options, the minibuffer reports:
"menu-bar options save" and the options are not saved.
 

It may be important to note that I have XEmacs
installed on both machine in a different directory
(not running) but, being both Windows installations,
the home directory must be shared by both TEI Emacs
and XEmacs.  When I completed the installation, I had
no .emacs file and when I ran into the problems I
opened up a blank .emacs to see if it would help.  I
also removed the .xemacs, no change.  I read through
the docs and was able to create and modify a .emacs
using the following instructions under the Help>Known
Problems:

"Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the
Font-lock mode.
Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files
to turn on
Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a
tty.  The
recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing
"M-x
global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the
variable
`global-font-lock-mode'."

Howver, this did not solve the (color) problem.  There
was no change at all.  I was hoping that the group or
person in charge of the Windows port would be able to
take a look at this if the answer did not pop up right
away.  I am very impressed with the layout of TEI
Emacs and am VERY much hoping to use it, but the white
background is a real strain to my old eyes and I'm
fairly certain other problems are going to pop up. 
Lastly, a minor issue, when I go to Help>About Emacs
the minibuffer responds with: "menu-bar help-menu
about."  M-x version gives the version info as
expected.  One last thing, I have checked C-h v
load-path and it appears to be fine.  All the above is
exactly the same on the Windows 98 and the Windows XP
machines.  Thank you for any help on this!

Kind Regards,
Edward Westin


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.8 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222)
 of 2003-12-28 on SERVER
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: enu
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Outline

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  cua-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  view-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<return> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <emacs-problems> 
C-f C-s g l o b a <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <help-echo>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <edit> <copy>
<help-echo> 
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> 
<report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
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(iconify-frame (#<frame e:/Program Files/TEI
Emacs/emacs-21.3/etc/PROBLEMS 0x1864000>))
(make-frame-visible (#<frame e:/Program Files/TEI
Emacs/emacs-21.3/etc/PROBLEMS 0x1864000>))
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