Re: Xemacs needs help

2004-02-26 Thread James LewisMoss
please don't. It's happened several times to me in the past and in every case it's caused more problems that it's solved. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://people.debian.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: XEmacs in a bad shape

2004-01-09 Thread James LewisMoss
gt; responsive. Anyone using XEmacs willing to help? Apologies for being out of the loop for a bit. I have a package ready to upload that should fix a bunch of these problems. As soon as I can get logged into ftp-master it'll be uploaded. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: byte-compile all those start-up files

2003-07-28 Thread James LewisMoss
They are so small that I can't imagine it making much of a difference and the complications of byte compiling them for everything would be a pain. (Not to mention making sure they are re compiled when changed (they being config files and all that).) Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Menu access in Xemacs

2003-07-28 Thread James LewisMoss
ur mouse pointer in the little white box that pops up and press the alt/meta key you are expecting to be the same. Look at the xterm for the output from xev. Compare and contrast. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://people.debian.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: xemacs*-mule* add-on package problem

2003-06-17 Thread James LewisMoss
sp. Then those packages in their respective groups could compile for whichever set of the three is most appropriate. Comments? Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://people.debian.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: gnus: View Externally: how did konqueror get there?

2003-05-11 Thread James LewisMoss
n> setq. (set-variable (quote mm-text-html-renderer) "mozilla") Dan> didn't help. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 Do M-x customizebrowse-url and look at the value of "Browser Function". Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be

Re: Splitting of XEmacs21 elisp packages

2003-05-02 Thread James LewisMoss
m working on new sumo-esque packages now, but having a few problems with some necessary changes so sometime next week they should be uploaded. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://people.debian.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: html-mode in xemacs

2002-11-19 Thread James LewisMoss
you actually should be able to add a hook to sgml-mode-hook, but I can't seem to get it to work at the moment. HTH Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://people.debian.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: incompatibility of *.elc between xemacs21-mule and xemacs21-nomule

2002-06-23 Thread James LewisMoss
#x27;m wrong. Tatsuya> In the bug report, I suggested using *.el with Tatsuya> xemacs21-nomule, but it's not so smart. Tatsuya> I wish the xemacs21-nomule flavor were defined. Huh? Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://people.debian.org/~dr

Re: emacs to run as root from su, in its own X window?

2002-06-14 Thread James LewisMoss
on. Anyways, the problem was: Dan> How do I get emacs to run as root when I do su, in its own X Dan> window? $ su Dan> # emacs run it as "DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=~name-of-user-running-x/.Xauthority emacs" or as someone else suggested use sudo. Jim -- @James LewisMoss

Re: Meta vs. Alt

2002-04-09 Thread James LewisMoss
should to rebind my Huba> Meta keys to Alt. Where and how should I reconfigure it? you'll want to load an xmodmap setting. xkeycaps is useful to figure out what you want to change and how. If you email me off list I'll send you the xmodmap settings I use. Jim -- @James LewisM

Re: How to disable autoloading

2002-04-09 Thread James LewisMoss
Tomasz> thanks - this helps to not load auctex, but I also loose all Tomasz> the other "pre-configured by debian" auto-load files. could edit the auctex file and wrap everything in it in (if nil ... ) Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @h

Re: XEmacs does not die gracefully

2002-03-13 Thread James LewisMoss
I apologize for the troubles. Generally if you shut down X using the logout in gnome the problem shouldn't occur (though it still can). Also I've gotten in the habit of exiting xemacs before exiting X. Jim (XEmacs packager) -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: Questions From A New User

2002-01-15 Thread James LewisMoss
ce C-x ~ You should probably be asking these questions on a redhat specific list or an emacs specific list. Typically this list is used for discussing (x)emacs issues on a debian system (not redhat). Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: Should debian-emacs-flavor symbol be allowed at large?

2001-10-15 Thread James LewisMoss
acs/site-start.d/50somefile.el, Peter> and use that variable later). I believe it should forbid its usage outside the /etc/(x)emacs* files. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: xemacs 21.4.3 nomule + MappingNotify event

2001-07-30 Thread James LewisMoss
n't understand the issues enough to help you with it, but someone there should. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: number-or-marker-p

2001-07-27 Thread James LewisMoss
t will Jim> happen ultimately if the emacs session is long enough. Jim> Does anyone know how I might trace this problem to its origins? Jim> Or solve it? Thanks very much in advance, Likely setting the var debug-on-error to t will give you a backtrace (I'

Re: Bug#61167: emacsen-common: major bug in policy (not RC for potato)

2001-07-17 Thread James LewisMoss
> us to avoid having dangling directories for old versions across >> upgrades. We could have chosen to keep a compatibility symlink, >> but that seemed likely to mask bugs in the debianized packages. Julian> But if it's only for emacs21 onwards, let's give an Julian> ap

Re: Key bindings

2001-03-20 Thread James LewisMoss
C file. And then test for unused key sequences. You'll probably have better luck if you aren't guessing randomly for good sequences. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: Key bindings

2001-03-20 Thread James LewisMoss
e-map "\C-x\C-ce" 'cxref-endline-comment) ;; Control-C e + (define-key c-mode-map "\C-x\C-ci" 'cxref-inline-comment) ;; Control-C i ) Here's the patch from the debian package changing it. And before you jump off to take over the C-c C-c arena do

Re: Should files in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ be conffiles?

2001-02-27 Thread James LewisMoss
le it should contain prominent notices "DON'T MODIFY THIS FILE" sort of thing. So. Your call I think. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: ["Davide G. M. Salvetti" ] emacsen: need plan to fix leftover cruft in share/emacs/XX.Y...

2001-02-04 Thread James LewisMoss
f> Jeff> All Debian packaging scripts should be written to the posix Jeff> shell, not to bash. Incorrect. If it is written to bash it should use #!/bin/bash not #!/bin/sh, but that's the only requirement. Hell packaging scripts can be perl, or a c

Re: emacsen: need plan to fix leftover cruft in share/emacs/XX.Y...

2001-01-25 Thread James LewisMoss
ere). For the files themselves and the dirs they create I think that elisp packages should be required to clean up their old cruft as well. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: emacsen: need plan to fix leftover cruft in share/emacs/XX.Y...

2001-01-23 Thread James LewisMoss
how many packages are guilty of leaving Manoj> cruft Manoj> behind, so we have an handle on the size of the problem? On my machine it's bbdb, debview and python-elisp. nothing else. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: Problem with xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn (21.1.12-2) in woody

2000-12-11 Thread James LewisMoss
the environment of LANG=zh_CN.GB2312, >> the error message "Language environment not defined: 'Chinese'" >> still appears. Maybe I have to correct the source of mule-init.el. Fumitoshi> AFAIK, these *.el files are compiled and dumped into Fumitoshi> xemacs ex

Re: JDE Package(s)

2000-11-14 Thread James LewisMoss
often useful without the other?" If so consider splitting them. But there are other questions like "By combining them am I taking up a lot of extra possibly wasted room?" If you aren't combine them. It's always a tradeoff. Oh and my favorite question "What&#x

Re: XEmacs/GTK 21.1.11

2000-08-28 Thread James LewisMoss
n it actually. If no one else feels the need. (Noticed it on Freshmeat today actually.) Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://jimdres.home.mindspring.com | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: scsh (Was: Re: Must hand off XEmacs21 project!)

1999-11-09 Thread James LewisMoss
d any offer I once made to you to take them over. Do all the work you want on your packages, but the ones in Debian are mine. They work now not some time in the future. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.ioa.com/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

XEmacs 21

1999-10-03 Thread James LewisMoss
nd of next week (October 9 or so) if nothing horrible is shown to be a problem. Thanks Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.ioa.com/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: JDE

1999-08-03 Thread James LewisMoss
e nice if all emacs package maintainers added something like a /usr/doc/example.emacs file to their packages so that there was a simple place for all these config statements to go and be found. (This is assuming that autoloads won't work or are a bad idea in a /etc/(x)emacs/site-sta

Re: Athena Widgets -- Emacs20

1999-06-30 Thread James LewisMoss
I assume you'll keep the default for the menus and scrollbars and only use athena3d for the dialogues? Dres -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @http://www.ioa.com/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach

Re: ~/.xemacs/ or ~/xemacs/? (Was: Re: [XEmacs] New Maintainer, soonish.)

1999-06-29 Thread James LewisMoss
hael> the file? (ISTMT ~/.xemacs/options.el would be more Michael> noticable.) Karl> Should it be "~/.xemacs/", or "~/xemacs/"? What's the Karl> consensus? .xemacs (I prefer my home directory to be fairly clean and become annoyed at programs that decide t