Re: FYI: GNU Emacs Manual to be moved to non-free

Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tool like apt-cache should not be manipulating things like colour. > Secondly, the (default) output for apt-cache search should not contain agreed about the default, what do you all think about having an additional option, say --free, that limits the resu

Re: FYI: GNU Emacs Manual to be moved to non-free

hi Thomas > 3) It would be great if apt-cache search would report the >classification of a package big and red, just like >packages.debian.org (I don't know though it can do that >already, though). this would be a perfect solution which will work for a user like me. This will also avo

Re: FYI: GNU Emacs Manual to be moved to non-free

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am sure almost no one consider FSF's manuals unfree just because > > DSFG thinks they are, > > As far as I am concerned, the DFSG is the canonical litmus > test ... so I don't see how your statement can be > correct. "Almost" was the key

Re: FYI: GNU Emacs Manual to be moved to non-free

> Hi Emacs users, > > There is an ongoing discussion on debian-legal about the license of > GNU Manuals. These manuals, an among them the GNU Emacs Manual, > are licenses under GDFL but have invariant sections that are > considered by Debian as non-free (if Debian decides to apply > DFSG

Re: FYI: GNU Emacs Manual to be moved to non-free

> a huger inconvenience. *huge* [...] DG http://gnufans.net/~deego/ --

Re: debian's gnus package older than its emacs builtin gnus?

> > DG> hm, here's another confused emacs user. I had been "careful" to not > > DG> "apt-get install gnus", lest it spoil my current emacs21. > > > > You should perhaps give Debian more credit. > > Oh, I didn't mean to take any credit away from debian at all, sorry if hehe, please ign

Re: debian's gnus package older than its emacs builtin gnus?

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DG> hm, here's another confused emacs user. I had been "careful" to not > DG> "apt-get install gnus", lest it spoil my current emacs21. > > You should perhaps give Debian more credit. Oh, I didn't mean to take any credit away from debian

Re: debian's gnus package older than its emacs builtin gnus?

Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Manoj's information on gnus package] hm, here's another confused emacs user. I had been "careful" to not "apt-get install gnus", lest it spoil my current emacs21. Perhaps the "apt-cache show gnus" should mention in its first line: "newsreader for

Re: change in Debian emacs policy: make global enabling of add-on lisp packages optional

> > Anyway, a good start would be to just report bugs against emacs add-on > packages that do something stupid (like those you mentioned). Fixing > those problems will help, regardless of whether some additional > mechanism is later added... Doing so. Thanks. (Had mailed all the package auth

Re: change in Debian emacs policy: make global enabling of add-on lisp packages optional

> > A typical emacs package has little effect unless you explicitly invoke it. While that is supposed to be true, it has been very untrue in practice, IME. Here are some examples of the top of my head: * Installing maxima makes my emacs N new functinos with ~ N namespaces, and N is very large.

Re: How to diagnose emacs21 segfault?

Brian i will venture to try to blab about what little i know... i think that segfaults should be devbugged via gdb. The way is to first 'cd' to the directory containing your original .c files from which emacs was built. (If you downloaded emacs binaries, then you can get sources, say in debian

Re: emacspeak + festival

I successfully managed to get emacspeak and festival, and evn an emacs interface going on a sunsparc 2--3 years ago... so don't remember details, but here goes: (and i not root during installation)... csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know I can run festival from within emacs. What I want to

Re: How to disable autoloading

> I assume this to be part of the debian configured start-up files emacs -no-site-file HTH D -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: paragraph-indent-text-mode in mail mode

> I use paragraph-indent-text-mode for any text. My .emacs > contains the line: > (setq default-major-mode 'paragraph-indent-text-mode ) > which works as desired in text mode, but not in mail mode. > > I would like to attach paragraph-indent-minor-mode to > text-mode-hook so paragraph