I am still having trouble getting bash to work in emacs. At one point dome magic was performed and it was working, but whatever I did was not correctly...
Seth Copen Goldstein
seth@...
Aug 1, 1998 7:21 am
2530
I'm puzzled. When I edit a file, for example "x.txt", using NT emacs 19.34.6, the saved version of the file is always "x.txt~". Am I losing it (rhetorical...
Peter Kaiser
kaiser@...
Aug 2, 1998 6:11 pm
2531
For all the versions of Emacs-20 I've run on NT, I've not been able to get AucTeX to run 'LaTeX Interactive' properly: it complains that the output buffer is...
Nick Sweeney
nsweeney@...
Aug 2, 1998 9:14 pm
2532
This is a variant of the completion problems I reported earlier, and is a rather nasty bug. In a situation with multiple possible completions, one gets...
Ross Boylan
RossBoylan@...
Aug 3, 1998 12:24 am
2533
This is not a bug. Look at the variable "completion-ignored-extensions" Jeremy ... From: Ross Boylan Sent: Monday, 3 August 1998 11:20 am To: JBOWEN;...
Jeremy Bowen
jbowen@...
Aug 3, 1998 2:59 am
2534
Thank you. I missed that little wrinkle. My 2 cents is that this is undesirable behavior because it violates the principle that commands should behave as...
Ross Boylan
RossBoylan@...
Aug 3, 1998 6:33 am
2535
... If only it were so simple! But I think it's something more complex, because occasionally twiddle-backups DO work -- for instance, yesterday when I edited...
Peter Kaiser
kaiser@...
Aug 3, 1998 10:04 am
2536
I use: (setq version-control t) to get numbered backups. I haven't had any problems that I can recall. Ray Rizzuto ... From: Peter Kaiser <kaiser@...> To:...
Is there a way to and/delete an extension from completion-ignored-extensions in .emacs. I didn't see any. Or does one simply set the variable from scratch....
Ken Goldman
kgold@...
Aug 3, 1998 3:52 pm
2539
It was a long time ago, but I seem to remember having a problem like this. It was caused by changing the Windows registry so that it did not mangle the DOS...
Mike Martin
mmartin@...
Aug 3, 1998 4:31 pm
2540
about setting the #default font? Say, "M-x set-default-font RET times new roman" works, but #any further cursor movement corrupts the screen. Also, the change...
STE MARIE, PAUL
PAUL.STE@...
Aug 3, 1998 5:30 pm
2541
Thanks to the people who've written me about this. Mike Martin reminds me of Windows 95's use of "~" in the DOS 8+3 versions of long filenames, and the...
Peter Kaiser
kaiser@...
Aug 3, 1998 5:30 pm
2542
... Ah, that sounds like the problem. The registry key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\FileSystem\NameNumericTail which is a 1 byte...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 3, 1998 6:09 pm
2543
... Exactly. ... Either the NameNumericTail setting wasn't what you thought it was, or you mainly edited files with extensions shorter than 3 letters so the ...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 3, 1998 6:09 pm
2544
... Perhaps the AUCTeX package does something to strip high bits after a .tex file is loaded; Emacs itself certainly does not do this. Unfortunately I've never...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 3, 1998 7:15 pm
2545
... Not to my knowledge, although quite possibly someone out there is working on it (a port of real Emacs that is). I've not looked at the API calls Emacs uses...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 3, 1998 7:15 pm
2546
... With numeric tails turned on, the process is: 1. Edit "AFile.xxx". 2. Save it. 3. Emacs renames the original "AFile.xxx" to "AFile.xxx~" and forgets...
STE MARIE, PAUL
PAUL.STE@...
Aug 3, 1998 8:41 pm
2547
I don't know much about emacs-lisp, but regular lisp has a bunch of commands for working with lists. If there isn't the one that you want, it would be a ...
Brian St. Pierre
stpierre@...
Aug 3, 1998 8:20 pm
2548
... Unfortunately complete support for multibyte characters will not appear in NT-Emacs until after 20.3 (which should be released soon, though I don't know...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 3, 1998 8:34 pm
2549
In my .emacs, I have: (setq-default backup-by-copying t) This was done to counteract some bug, back in the depths of 19.29 or so. Perhaps it was the same...
Paquette, Jeff
Paquette@...
Aug 3, 1998 8:40 pm
2550
My suggestion is: make an emulation of Windows CE inside EMACS! So it works, because there is no MS code inside, and if someone doesn't like it, he can unload...
wachtler
Wachtler@...
Aug 3, 1998 11:31 pm
2551
Paul Ste. Marie writes ... Weasel words. In fact, over several years of operation the only component I've found that doesn't work under Win95 with...
Peter Kaiser
kaiser@...
Aug 4, 1998 9:17 am
2552
Now that I (think I) understand this, I'm going to try out Ray Rizzuto's suggestion to use numbered backups, because I prefer to avoid "numeric tails" if...
Peter Kaiser
kaiser@...
Aug 4, 1998 9:32 am
2553
... A while back there were some discussions on making backups and the following code was posted (sorry I forgot by who) which puts all backup files in a...
andy.ling@...
Aug 4, 1998 12:25 pm
2554
... That dll sounds like it is part of the Sentinel dongle driver from Rainbow. Check the Multimedia control panel, Devices page and look under "Other...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 4, 1998 1:51 pm
2555
... I've recently found out the reason why this sometimes happens, because something similar happened with a program a colleague was working on. It is not the...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 4, 1998 1:52 pm
2556
... I should still be able to get access to an Alpha NT machine at work to do builds, so yes we will provide binaries for Alpha for major releases. I've only...
Andrew Innes
andrewi@...
Aug 4, 1998 2:05 pm
2557
... .... ... I am not sure that the hack is 100% effective. We have been using emacs-19.34.6, Windows 95, + Microsoft's client for Novell 4. Occasionally we...
David Fellows
fellows@...
Aug 4, 1998 2:17 pm
2558
... Not all Win32 calls are available on WinCE (pronounced "wince"). Not only that, but where a call is available, some options may not be supported. For ...
