Re: Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-11 Thread Miles Bader
Peter Daum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Not really related to the problem, but why do you use unibyte mode? >> It is very much deprecated, you will not be able to edit or view utf-8 >> encoded text. > > Fortunately, I don't usually need UTF-8 (Even in multibyte mode and with > a suitable font, I

Re: Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-11 Thread Sven Joachim
Peter Daum writes: > Fortunately, I don't usually need UTF-8 (Even in multibyte mode and with > a suitable font, I never managed persuading emacs to correctly display > an utf-8-encoded file) Unless you live on an island, sooner or later you will retrieve UTF-8 encoded files, as this is standard i

Re: Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
s. I installed several > other emacsens on the same system (including a shiny new emacs 22.1 > compiled from the original source) and in all other installations, the > code snippet above will redefine the "ä" key as expected. I can confirm that it works in Emacs 22. > Since I am plann

Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-08 Thread Peter Daum
t above will redefine the "ä" key as expected. Since I am planning to use Debian on lots of machines, I would strongly prefer if there was some workaround for the emacs21 debian package instead of using a self-made emacs on all machines. Unfortunately, I can't figure out, which mo

Re: emacs21 font rendering

2007-05-21 Thread flebber
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:17 +1000, flebber wrote: > Hi > > This is my first post to the list so if i have done anything untoward > please let me know. > > I am on debian etch using gnome I have been trying to get emacs or > emacs21 as it seems to be called to work prop

emacs21 font rendering

2007-05-21 Thread flebber
Hi This is my first post to the list so if i have done anything untoward please let me know. I am on debian etch using gnome I have been trying to get emacs or emacs21 as it seems to be called to work properly. It is not rendering fonts so words in the buffers are not there they are merely

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 18:56:25 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >Thanks for your continuing help. In response to "aptitude keep-all" > and to > "aptitude install -fsD" I got a long list of packages that "have been > kept back". > No single item in the list seemed enlightening. > > The second

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-15 Thread Charles Blair
Thanks for your continuing help. In response to "aptitude keep-all" and to "aptitude install -fsD" I got a long list of packages that "have been kept back". No single item in the list seemed enlightening. The second command also gave as response: * 0 upgraded

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
t; *** > > It seems that an attempt now to install ANY additional package has > aptitude wanting > to delete emacs21 and (even worse) to remove grub (version 0.97-23). The libc6-* versions are OK for a current Etch. Maybe aptitude remembers something s

Re: Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-14 Thread Charles Blair
-11(/var/lib...Binary-1...20070226-09:38...) *** It seems that an attempt now to install ANY additional package has aptitude wanting to delete emacs21 and (even worse) to remove grub (version 0.97-23). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
>Thanks for any ideas about how to deal with this situation. Can you repost the version number of libc6 currently on your system? (It looks like you are transcribing the messages rather than copy/pasting them directly. "2.3.6.ds1-2.3.6.ds1-i" seems weird to me, did you maybe mak

libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-14 Thread Charles Blair
This is an attempt to supply more detail on a problem reported in another recent post. I have installed a dual-boot of etch and Windows XP on a recently purchased HP machine that has a SATA hard disk (i386). Recently I have installed gcc-4.1 and emacs-21 using downloads of the "weekly

Re: emacs21 held hostage to installing other packages

2007-03-14 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-14, Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently installed the testing (etch) incarnation of debian, > and have added emacs (emacs21). I would like to add gnumeric > and a number of other packages, but aptitude warns me that, to > do so, I have to dow

emacs21 held hostage to installing other packages

2007-03-13 Thread Charles Blair
I recently installed the testing (etch) incarnation of debian, and have added emacs (emacs21). I would like to add gnumeric and a number of other packages, but aptitude warns me that, to do so, I have to downgrade some things (libc6 is one), and that this will delete emacs21. -- To

Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
OK, so this is the real fix. Move FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" to the top (above the misc). I don't understand why, but this gives great fonts for xemacs21. I've revised the web page accordingly. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found ema

Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
By now, you have probably fixed this problem, but I have been wrestling with font issues for several weeks now. I include a rough webpage with a recipe that has led to consistently pleasing fonts in both gnome and KDE. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found emacs21 display

Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Johnson
Twice now I have found emacs21 display squares instead of fonts after doing an update in Sid, and once they were fixed by an update. It seems that it is either an update to X, or some fonts package that breaks things rather than emacs. I believe both times that it broke apt was updating both X

On emacs-snapshot-gtk (was: Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken)

2006-05-11 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, I am sorry for jumping in this thread a bit late. I hope that this is still relevant. On May 08 2006, Carl D. Blake wrote: > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for the last few days > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common package is > broken. If yo

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-10 Thread Carl D. Blake
; testing at the same > > > time? > > > > i don't think even testing is working... both testing > > and unstable have the same version number.. so wait > > till the bug is fixed. (or use xemacs as suggested) > > The problem is not the emacs21 package but rat

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
is working... both testing > and unstable have the same version number.. so wait > till the bug is fixed. (or use xemacs as suggested) The problem is not the emacs21 package but rather its dependency, the emacs21-common package: $ apt-cache policy emacs21-common emacs21-common: Insta

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > The OP didn't say he wanted/needed GNU Emacs, he said he was trying to > install emacs21. I would have thought the latter implied the former. > He can

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > The OP didn't say he wanted/needed GNU Emacs, he said he was trying to > install emacs21. I would have thought the latter implied the former. > He can get essentially the same functionality with xemacs21 while

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:41:35PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside > emacs21, and has no dependencies on emacs21 (that I can see). ..., and is also not GNU Emacs.

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread kruton
> OK, I'll ask a stupid question. How do you setup > the sources.list file > so you can use unstable, but install emacs from > testing at the same > time? i don't think even testing is working... both testing and unstable have the same version number.. so wait till the bug is fixed. (or use xemac

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:41:35PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside > emacs21, and has no dependencies on emacs21 (that I can see). ..., and is also not GNU Emacs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you need emacs you can install the version from testing and forbid further upgrades of these packages until this dependency issue is fixed. You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside emacs21, and has no depend

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 02:17, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 15:32:38 -0700, kruton wrote: > > --- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > > > the last few da

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 15:32:38 -0700, kruton wrote: > --- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > > the last few days > > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common > > p

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-08 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/8/06, Carl D. Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for the last few days and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common package is broken. I keep waiting thinking that the problem will be resolved, but nothing has been do

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-08 Thread H.S.
kruton wrote: > couple of days back, when I was upgrading to v7.0.16 > of xorg, these emacs packages were "removed". i am > hoping that the dependency issues are fixed before i > need to use emacs again.. > --kruton > I had noticed that xfs-xtt has some dependency issues with xorg v7.0.16. I ev

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-08 Thread kruton
--- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > the last few days > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common > package is broken. > I keep waiting thinking that the problem will be > resolve

emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-08 Thread Carl D. Blake
I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for the last few days and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common package is broken. I keep waiting thinking that the problem will be resolved, but nothing has been done about it. aptitude reports that the following packages have

Re: Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:40:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. > Error info > > Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... > emacs-install emacs21 > install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21.

Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

2005-07-22 Thread fbrian
Hello: TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. Error info Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... emacs-install emacs21 install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/auctex emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common

Re: installing emacs21 (woody)

2003-03-29 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hello! i have tried this: > Do this: > > apt-get clean > apt-get install xemacs21-mule > but i get a simular message: Setting up xemacs21-mule (21.4.6-8) ... emacs-install xemacs21 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor xemacs21 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for xemacs21 cp: canno

Re: installing emacs21 (woody)

2003-03-28 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
Do this: apt-get clean apt-get install xemacs21-mule Regards. El sáb, 29 de 03 de 2003 a las 00:38, Bjoern Schiessle escribió: > Hello, > i have tried to install emacs21 on my Debian woody system with apt-get. > But i get always following message: > > "apt-get install emacs

installing emacs21 (woody)

2003-03-28 Thread Bjoern Schiessle
Hello, i have tried to install emacs21 on my Debian woody system with apt-get. But i get always following message: "apt-get install emacs21 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs21 emacsen-common 0 packages upgrad

Re: Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:13:37PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex > package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons (they make me think of > Word...). > Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and

Re: Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-20 Thread Keith O'Connell
Joerg > I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex > package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons > Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text-mode I think what you are looking for is (tool-b

Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons (they make me think of Word...). Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text-mode menu (I can turn this one on with "menu-bar-mode 1", but t

Re: Emacs21: nameserver resolution fails

2002-10-19 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Shyamal Prasad writes: > Does Emacs 21 do this consistently? Or do you get this error only the > first time? Consistently. > > I'd suggest searching the bug reports to see if it has not been > reported. If that is the case, and you can reproduced this problem > consistenly, it is always w

Re: Emacs21: nameserver resolution fails

2002-10-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"markus" == markus hoenicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: markus> If I run vm as a mail client in Emacs 20, I have no markus> problem accessing my pop3 and smtp servers. If I try the markus> same in Emacs 21, I get a message: markus> Temporary nameserver resolution problem

tramp doesn't work with emacs21

2002-09-26 Thread DvB
I installed tramp and tried to use it in emacs21, but ran into bug #89339 so I install the version of tramp in unstable and now, when I attemp to open a file, it will try to find it in my root dir. C-x C-f /[name]file C-x C-f /[scp/name]file and C-x C-f /[scp/user@name]file don't work and

Re: emacs21 on potato..

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
add dependency on dpkg (>= 1.9.0) for new install-info. > > But trying to install I get dependency errors. Emacs21 depends on dpkg >>=1.9.0 and potato comes with 1.6.15. I guess nothing in emacs21 > really depends on dpkg except for maybe the install/remove scripts? > Then

emacs21 on potato..

2002-04-19 Thread Niels Felsted Thorsen
Hi I have an old laptop (486DX4-75) happily running potato. I use it for writing using emacs20 and LaTeX. I usually does that in X, to get colour syntax highlighting. But emacs21 supports this also in the console (freeing memory not running X). So I am interested in getting emacs21 to work on

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:33:10PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > In that case a likely candidate for upheaval is `libreadline'. > Look at `/etc/inputrc' and see that (input|output)-meta is on. > > # Be 8 bit clean. > set input-meta on > set output-meta on > ... > > Hope this

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:34:05AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:41:11PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:03:34PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: > > ... > > > > M-< goes to the top

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:41:11PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:03:34PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: > ... > > > M-< goes to the top > > > M-> goes to the bottom > ... > > On the woody computer at work Es

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:03:34PM +0200, Henrik Enberg wrote: ... > > M-< goes to the top > > M-> goes to the bottom ... > On the woody computer at work Esc-< and Esc-> does what M-< and M-> > should do. Yep, that's how it's suppose

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-15 Thread Johann Spies
erence between C-home and home on > the console. > > > Or is there another way to go to the top or bottom of the document in > > emacs21? > > M-< goes to the top > M-> goes to the bottom Thanks for this answer. I replied on a similar one yesterday from my ho

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:11:01PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Johann> Or is there another way to go to the top or bottom of the > Johann> document in emacs21? > > M-> or M-x end-of-buffer. Thanks Marshal, I missed that one somehow. With that working I

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread Henrik Enberg
op or bottom of the document in > emacs21? M-< goes to the top M-> goes to the bottom -- I acted to show my love for Jodie Foster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread marshal
Johann> Or is there another way to go to the top or bottom of the Johann> document in emacs21? M-> or M-x end-of-buffer. Good luck. Marshal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cntrl_home and Cntrl_end in emacs21 on console?

2002-04-13 Thread Johann Spies
One of the differences between emacs20 and emacs21 is the behaviour of the Home and End keys. I found the following problem in emacs21: Movement to the top or bottom of the document is supposed to be the result of Cntrl_Home and Cntrl_End respectively. But that only works in the X11 environment

Re: Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1

2002-04-09 Thread Pete Harlan
This will swap your left windows and alt keys, so you can use Alt for Meta and (in wmaker and probably other window managers) the windows key to switch windows. 1. Use xkeycaps to rearrange the keyboard how you'd like, and save the modifications in a file such as ~/.xmodmap. Mine looks like th

Re: Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1

2002-04-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-Apr-2002 Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > I noticed that in Debian Woody the Alt key does not work as Meta key when > using Emacs 21 under X (XFree 4.1.0.1). What do I have to put in my .emacs > file to get it to work? (I was looking at the FAQ using Help->Emacs FAQ, > but found nothing there.

Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1

2002-04-08 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! I noticed that in Debian Woody the Alt key does not work as Meta key when using Emacs 21 under X (XFree 4.1.0.1). What do I have to put in my .emacs file to get it to work? (I was looking at the FAQ using Help->Emacs FAQ, but found nothing there.) Searching with google revealed: (define-key f

Re: mule-ucs not compiling with emacs21 in woody

2002-04-08 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
At Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:02:11 +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading emacs21 yesterday mule-ucs does not compile. Starting > emacs21 the source is loaded. If the above means that mule-ucs is very slow, see the following: In message http://lists.debia

Re: mule-ucs not compiling with emacs21 in woody

2002-04-08 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
At Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:02:11 +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install --reinstall mule-ucs takes a while but completes > without errors but there are no byte-compiled files in > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mule-ucs/ I saw /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp

mule-ucs not compiling with emacs21 in woody

2002-04-08 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi! After upgrading emacs21 yesterday mule-ucs does not compile. Starting emacs21 the source is loaded. apt-get install --reinstall mule-ucs takes a while but completes without errors but there are no byte-compiled files in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/mule-ucs/ Any hints? Ciao! juh -- To

Need help building emacs21 on testing

2002-03-12 Thread csj
The following is the tail of piped stderr from attempting to build ("debuild -b -uc -us") emacs21 on an essentially testing system. Can anybody guess what package I'm missing or need to upgrade? "apt-get build-dep" doesn't complain about anything. > tail -n 15 ..

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-05 Thread frankie
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:11:36PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > > > is, "what is 6

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Hector
Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > > is, "what is 6 * 9?" > > > > That was 6 * 7 (!), > > No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthu

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-05 Thread Isabelle HURBAIN
> No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters. > The full question is: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" yep. And no one makes jokes in base 13 (Douglas Adams, approximativly translated from english to french and from french to english.) -- Isa

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Chris Jenks wrote: > > > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > > is, "what is 6 * 9?" > > That was 6 * 7 (!), No, it _is_ 6 * 9, extracted from arthur's head using scrabble letters. The full que

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
Richard Hector wrote: > > had to make up an answer, Oops - a question. But it's an answer to "what is the question?" :-) Richard -- I'm currently looking for work; see my Curriculum Vitae here: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~rhector/cv.html

Re: OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
Chris Jenks wrote: > > I thought that the book said the book said that the ultimate question > is, "what is 6 * 9?" That was 6 * 7 (!), was after the earth had been destroyed and the mice had to make up an answer, and was rejected as "too literal, too factual". The better solution (but still made

OT Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Jenks
At 03:42 PM 3/4/02, Gary Turner wrote: On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:23 +, Randy Orrison wrote: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >| >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >> If you can't get an answer th

Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:22:23 +, Randy Orrison wrote: >On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >| On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >| >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| >> If you can't get an answer there, then the >| >> only answer is "42" >

Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Randy Orrison
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >> If you can't get an answer there, then the | >> only answer is "42" | >Oh, thanks, I didn't know about that list. But your referenc

Re: emacs21

2002-03-04 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If you can't get an answer there, then the >> only answer is "42" > >Oh, thanks, I didn't know about that list. But your reference to "42" >sailed right over my head... "42" is the answer; the

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:31:55PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Harry, try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen all > > kinds of discussions on just this type of question. Some serious emacs > > dev types hang out there. If you can't get an answer t

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Harry, try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen all > kinds of discussions on just this type of question. Some serious emacs > dev types hang out there. If you can't get an answer there, then the > only answer is "42" Oh, thanks, I didn't know about t

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 08:29:04 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >A fairly long-time emacs user, I'm accustomed to using a site-start.el > >Probably good reasons for all this, I'm just curious what they are? Hi Harry, try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen all kinds of discussions on just this type of

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
wondered if this change is something to do with my installation or if > it is something debian has setup. > can't help here, sorry. > Also curious about the the way files get installed with emacs21 and > emacsen-common packages. > > I see it sets up /usr/share/emacs with

emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
e the way files get installed with emacs21 and emacsen-common packages. I see it sets up /usr/share/emacs with subs of site-lisp and emacs-21 when the default is /usr/local/share/emacs/ . It also creates the ones under /usr/local but they are empty. Why both? Seems like, if the official deb e

emacs21: changes in behaviour

2002-01-02 Thread Johann Spies
I have installed emacs21 today and while experimenting with it I noticed the following changes in behaviour - both of them causing problems for me: 1. According to the emacs news the Home and End keys will no longer take me to the beginning or end of buffer. I have to use C-Home and C-End. No

Re: Emacs21 in Woody...

2001-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:43:20PM +0100, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Does anybody know when emacs21 will hit Woody? As there's just been a low priority upload, a minimum of 10 days, provided that the maintainer doesn't upload another version between now and then. Even in 10

Emacs21 in Woody...

2001-11-15 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, Does anybody know when emacs21 will hit Woody? I'd really appreciate it :) I apt-source compiled emacs21 from unstable, but I am not pleased with this "mix" of testing and unstable... Cheers, -- Dominique Deleris http://potatoworld.tuxfamily.org

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-25 Thread joel_mayes
? (I'm asking because this is the reason > I didn't finish compiling dpkg 1.9.17 on a potato box). > > If that's ok, I'll go on and do it! > > (BTW, I installed Emacs21 on potato, with the dpkg that's i npotato. The > onlyproblem is that when installing the

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-25 Thread Britton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Matthew Garman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > > > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots > > > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What > > > has been very impressive is tha

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-25 Thread Glyn Millington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> Has anyone got Emacs21 up and running on stable? > Built it last night, the install uses texinfo 4.0b which you can build > from the unstable sources, it also depends on dpkg 1.9.17 from unstable > which you can just build from the unstab

Re: dpkg -P emacs21

2001-10-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> debug the post-removal script /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs21.postrm > > There must be some typing error where the suidunregister is called. > > Then try to purge the package again. > >Martin Also, it seems that there's a backport of Emacs21 (doesn

Re: dpkg -P emacs21

2001-10-25 Thread Igor Mozetic
Martin Fluch writes: > Hmm, debug the post-removal script /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs21.postrm > > There must be some typing error where the suidunregister is called. Thanks, I found it (MOVEMAIL undefined). Regards, Igor

Re: dpkg -P emacs21

2001-10-25 Thread Martin Fluch
Hmm, debug the post-removal script /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs21.postrm There must be some typing error where the suidunregister is called. Then try to purge the package again. Martin On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Igor Mozetic wrote: > I recompiled emacs21 for potato, but wasn't able to >

dpkg -P emacs21

2001-10-25 Thread Igor Mozetic
I recompiled emacs21 for potato, but wasn't able to install it since it depends on newer dpkg (>= 1.9.0), and I have 1.6.15. Now, I would just like to purge/remove it, but: # dpkg -P emacs21 (Reading database ... 46195 files and directories currently installed.) Removing emacs21 .

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-25 Thread DvB
See todays LWN weekly edition for more on emacs features (http://www.lwn.net). I found the article quite informative (like most of LWN's stuff).

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
hat's ok, I'll go on and do it! (BTW, I installed Emacs21 on potato, with the dpkg that's i npotato. The onlyproblem is that when installing the info files, it needs one option that dpkg will not recognize - but if you don't need the info files, that works nicely, as far as I could see!) J. --

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread joel_mayes
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:14:58AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Before I do the big download. (well, on this modem it's big > enough). > > Has anyone got Emacs21 up and running on stable? I was considering > building with the source from unstable, but could

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does the new version of GNU emacs support *console mode* syntax > highlighting (I guess it's called "font locking" in emacs-speak). Yes. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to pe

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots > > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What > > has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major > > upgrades (1

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:28:09AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What > has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major > up

[slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Jim McCloskey
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:36:48PM -0500, DvB wrote: > This may be taking this thread a little OT, but I have to ask... I've > heard (on Slashdot, to be exact) that Emacs21 has some "new user > oriented" features that can be annoying for more experienced users. What >

[slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:36:48PM -0500, DvB wrote: > This may be taking this thread a little OT, but I have to ask... I've > heard (on Slashdot, to be exact) that Emacs21 has some "new user > oriented" features that can be annoying for more experienced users. What >

Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-23 Thread Glyn Millington
Before I do the big download. (well, on this modem it's big enough). Has anyone got Emacs21 up and running on stable? I was considering building with the source from unstable, but could just as easily get the raw source and do the job in /usr/local. Any reason why either of

ESS 5.1.18 with Emacs 21 (was Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation)

2001-07-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > 3) M-x R locks up emacs 21. I've never seen anything do this before. This > > command uses ESS to start up R. It is unlikely that someone else who is > > reading this is using ESS, R and emacs 21, but I thought it worth > > mentioning. I probably need

Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation

2001-07-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
retty much what I get. I assume you have R installed? > I could get out of it by pressing Control-G. Yes, me too. I guess locking up was an exaggeration. > The ESS mailing list is your best bet. They will have to support > emacs21 eventually! Yes, I just heard from A.J. Rossini. Thanks, Faheem Mitha.

Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation

2001-07-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
da hangs there. Is that what you mean? (I'm not sure since I've never used it). I could get out of it by pressing Control-G. The ESS mailing list is your best bet. They will have to support emacs21 eventually! Peter

Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation

2001-07-30 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Faheem Mitha wrote: > 3) M-x R locks up emacs 21. I've never seen anything do this before. This > command uses ESS to start up R. We would need to see what the "R" function is. Peter

Re: minor problems with new emacs21 installation

2001-07-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > 3) M-x R locks up emacs 21. I've never seen anything do this before. This > > command uses ESS to start up R. > > We would need to see what the "R" function is. Oh, sorry. ii r-base 1.3.0-1`GNU S

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