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From: ascott@fws214.intel.com (Andy Scott ~)
Subject: Re: Sebasitan Kremer's "rcs.el" file
Reply-To: ascott@pcocd2.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:00:55 GMT

>>>>> On 26 Aug 92 13:11:26 GMT, sar@mbunix.mitre.org (Renner) said:

Renner> I am searching for a particular "rcs-mode" implementation.  I
Renner> already have a texinfo file titled "rcs Manual, for version 1".
Renner> The author is Sebastian Kremer.  The date is 22 October 1991.

Renner> What I don't have is the "rcs.el" file described in this
Renner> document.  Can anyone send it to me, or tell me where to find
Renner> it?  Please send mail.  If you don't have it, but want it if I
Renner> get it, also send mail.

Renner> ==========
Renner> Scott Renner
Renner> The MITRE Corporation
Renner> sar@mitre.org

Sebastian's latest version of rcs.el is v1.67.  Attached is info
on how to find it:


------ Attachment ---------------------------------------------
This is the README for rcs.el, a GNU Emacs interface to the RCS
revision control system.

Report bugs to: Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE>

Advantages over other RCS interfaces:

	   * simple to use
	   * texinfo manual
	   * modeline display and automatic checkout of missing files
	   * very flexible through access to underlying RCS commands
	   * works with RCS versions 3, 4, 5

FILES:
-----
	rcs.README	this file
	rcs.texi	Texinfo manual for rcs.el
	rcs.el		RCS interface for GNU Emacs
	add-log.el	nicer version of add-change-log-entry (`C-x 4 a')
			that also works together with rcs.el

These files are also available via anonymous ftp from

        ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:pub/Emacs/rcs.tar.Z
        ftp.uni-koeln.de:/pub/gnu/emacs/rcs.tar.Z


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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
Subject: word wrapping (was Re: A better spell checker?)
Organization: Morning Star Technologies
	<1992Aug24.152350.26055@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:24:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.152350.26055@hubcap.clemson.edu> andy@mercury.cs.clemson.edu (Andrew J. Greenshields N3IGS) writes:
   ...the version [of emacs] they have here does not word wrap at the
   end of each line.  How can I alter it so that it will do this?

Insert lines like this in your ~/.emacs:

(setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
(setq outline-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

And maybe

(setq latex-mode-hook
      '(lambda ()
	 (setq ispell-filter-hook "detex")
	 (setq ispell-filter-hook-args '("-lw"))
	 (turn-on-auto-fill)))
(setq tex-mode-hook
      '(lambda ()
	 (setq ispell-filter-hook "detex")
	 (setq isell-filter-hook-args '("-w"))
	 (turn-on-auto-fill)))

True blockheads will like

(setq auto-fill-hook 'do-auto-justify)


This way, whenever you visit a file in text, outline, or {la}tex mode
(rather than in Fundamental mode, like *scratch*), you'll get
auto-filling, which is Emacs' name for word wrapping.  To switch to
text (and therefore auto-fill) mode in a buffer, say "M-x text-mode".
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Lacheck.exe, ispell.el for OS/2??
Date: 1 Sep 1992 22:58:13 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

Has anyone ported these to OS/2 yet? I tried compiling Lacheck which came 
with AUC-TeX using GCC, but though it ran, I got a core dump at the end. 
The ispell.el that I obtained keeps moaning about arguments being out of 
range (when spelling a single word) or not being able to find the file "tr" 
(when checking the whole buffer)

Thanks a lot

Richard Stanton
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From: dmason@waterloo.edu (Dave Mason)
Subject: How to get a TAB on auto-fill and M-Q
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:24:43 GMT

 In lisp mode, auto-fill puts a TAB at the beginning of the created
line.  This makes the indentation do the right thing.

I want similar behaviour in a TeX-mode buffer.  I'm using auc-tex &
have it indenting the way I want it, but in auto-fill, no intentation
is done.

How do I do this? (i.e. what is the hook that makes this work in lisp
mode)?

Moreover, on M-Q (fill-paragraph), it doesn't (even in lisp mode) do
any indentation.  I'd *really* like it to.

I'm not a really experienced emacs-lisp hacker, but I have done some
emacs hacking and can do what I want if someone just points me at the
right hooks.

Thanks	../Dave
From: ryanr@beethoven.CS.ColoState.EDU (richard ryan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: emacs to vi and back in evi
Date: 2 Sep 92 06:01:28 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Colorado State University

Hi,

I was just learning how to use the evi vi emulator and I was wondering 
if anyone knew how to leave evi and stay in emacs, that is, to go back and
forth into and out of the evi emulator.

I gotta say, though, it's one heck of an emulator.

Thanks,
Richard.
From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Emacs bugs
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:11:02 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <9209040329.AA22629@cookie-crisp> liberte@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>There are several reasons that bugs don't get reported.  I suggest some
>remedies.
>[list deleted]

A large number of users use GNU Emacs on a platform not officially supported
by FSF.  That is, someone else did the port to get it to work.  Apollo and HP
workstation ports, the MS-DOS port (Demacs), and the OS/2 port are several
that come to mind.

When a bug occurs in these ports, the user must struggle with the question:
Whose problem is it?

Another example of a problem is one I had recently with the Emacs mail
command.  I would send the message from within Emacs and Emacs reported that
the message was sent.  But sometimes the message was NOT sent.  If I went to a
another window on my workstation and sent mail via Unix mail, it was delivered
without a problem.  So, it sure looked like Emacs was acting up.  But I was
not confortable reporting a bug against Emacs, because I could not be sure it
was a bug in Emacs.

Several weeks later, we discovered the cause.  I invoked the shell command
from with Emacs and then displayed my environment.  At the end of the list of
environment variables a portion of my Korn shell alias list was shown to be in
the environment.  Somehow my environment variable space got corrupted.

Then I remembered.  Just before my Emacs mail problems occured, I had learned
about the ability to export an alias in the Korn shell.  So I had modified my
.kshrc file to export each alias.  When I changed this back to not exporting
each alias, my corrupted environment and Emacs mail problems went away.  So,
it appears that there is a bug in the exporting of variables in the Korn
shell.   Or is it a bug in the Apollo port of the Korn shell to Apollo
workstations?  Or is it a bug in the version of Domain O/S upon which the Korn
shell executes?  

So, it is easy to say that one encountered a bug when running GNU Emacs.  It
is quite another thing to say that the bug is a problem with GNU Emacs as it
is distributed by the FSF.

Does the FSF care about bugs manifested in GNU Emacs ports that they do not
officially support?
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From: jchapman@lister.reo.dec.com (Jim Chapman)
Subject: Re: Help: unlock an RCS file?
Reply-To: jchapman@janus.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:18:00 GMT


In article <CHETAL.92Aug26051300@is1.is.morgan.com>, chetal@is.morgan.com (Pradeep Chetal) writes:
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|>From: chetal@is.morgan.com (Pradeep Chetal)
|>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
|>Subject: Re: Help: unlock an RCS file?
|>Message-ID: <CHETAL.92Aug26051300@is1.is.morgan.com>
|>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 10:13:00 GMT
|>References: <1992Aug25.191820.20354@rdg.dec.com>
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|>In article <1992Aug25.191820.20354@rdg.dec.com> jchapman@lister.reo.dec.com (Jim Chapman) writes:
|>
|>   I am using RCS version 5.5, and I've hit a problem caused by a system
|>   system crash while I was checking in a file.
|>
|>   When my system rebooted, and I retried the command, I get the
|>   following error from RCS:
|>
|>   tcsh> ci -u my.file
|>   ci error: RCS file RCS/my.file,v is in use
In article <CHETAL.92Aug26051300@is1.is.morgan.com>, chetal@is.morgan.com (Pradeep Chetal) writes:
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|>From: chetal@is.morgan.com (Pradeep Chetal)
|>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
|>Subject: Re: Help: unlock an RCS file?
|>Message-ID: <CHETAL.92Aug26051300@is1.is.morgan.com>
|>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 10:13:00 GMT
|>References: <1992Aug25.191820.20354@rdg.dec.com>
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|>Nntp-Posting-Host: is1
|>
|>In article <1992Aug25.191820.20354@rdg.dec.com> jchapman@lister.reo.dec.com (Jim Chapman) writes:
|>
|>   I am using RCS version 5.5, and I've hit a problem caused by a system
|>   system crash while I was checking in a file.
|>
|>   When my system rebooted, and I retried the command, I get the
|>   following error from RCS:
|>
|>   tcsh> ci -u my.file
|>   ci error: RCS file RCS/my.file,v is in use
Thanks for all the replies to my query about a stuck lock on an RCS
file. My problem was solved by deleting the COMMA lockfile in the
RCS directory.

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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Subject: line numbers
Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:20:10 GMT


Hello Gnuish,
I know that Emacs is not a line type editor but I've been doing
a lot of patching lately and it would be helpful....

I tried line-nos.el from the archive but it doesn't work for me.
It's quite an amazing kluge though..

Next I tried to write a keyboard macro that would combine next-line
with what-line:

         (define-key SS3-map "q" 'line-nnum)
         (fset 'line-nnum
		"^N^[xwhat-line^M)

It moves down a line but does not do what-line.

Am I trying to do something that can't be done easily? It seems like
it would work as a macro...but I am not elispoid.
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From: calum@clu.cf.ac.uk (Calum J. Gordon)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Question: RMAIL
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:29:31 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Computational Linguistics Unit, Univ of Wales College of Cardiff, 
              UK

When using Rmail to read mail, my inbox file in /usr/local/spool/mail
disappears after fetching mail from it. Is there a way to preserve the
mail spooler even when empty, as the "keep" flag in .mailrc
normally does? More generally, what use does Rmail make of
.mailrc apart from getting mail address aliases? Are any of the
settings relevant to Rmail?
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From: RICHARD@CLYDE.ttt.kth.se
Subject: Re: redefining keys --> Wrong type argument: commandp
Organization: Department of TeleTransmission Theory
Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:54:18 GMT

In article <JWARRING.92Aug26161841@violet.srg> jwarring@violet.srg (Jeff Warrington) writes:


   (defun my-func()
   "Something special"
	   (interactive)	;; <--- YOU NEED THIS TO MAKE A COMMAND OF
					A FUNCTION
	   (other-window)
	   (rmail-get-new-mail)
	   (rmail-summary))

   (define-key rmail-summary-mode-map "g" 'my-func)

Now it will work.
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From: klug@Software.Mitel.COM (Peter Klug)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Code for sun keyboard -- how can i find out?
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:50:18 GMT
Organization: Mitel Corporation; Kanata, Ontario, Canada
In-reply-to: zfs60@cas.org's message of 1 Sep 92 16:07:14 GMT


In article <1992Sep1.160714.7075@cas.org> zfs60@cas.org writes:

   i know the following because that was what i got a long time ago, but
   i wonder if there is anyway to find out the code for an arbitrary key,
   such as insert, and do-nothing key among arrow keys.  thanks.

   (global-set-key         "\e[215z"       'previous-line)
			   --------
			   this is the code for upward arrow


Unless I'm misunderstanding the question, I think a simple
quoted-insert should give you what you want.  When I set up my .emacs
file, I used quoted-insert to  determine the code for all the keys I
configured and they seem to be doing what I assigned to them.

Exceute quoted-insert and then type the keystroke.  Just remember that
the escape (or Meta) gets displayed as "^[".

Example:
   [D  is left arrow (you'd use "M-[D")

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From: dougherty@took.enet.DEc.COM (Digital Equipment Corporation, (508) 486-7092 )
Subject: FWD: Q: Error during compilation of EMACS 18.58 on Sparc IPX...
Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:13:43 GMT

------------------Forwarded item dated 1-SEP-1992 13:39:57.68------------------

Hello,

I have just started using the Sun system, and am trying to get the latest
version of GNU Emacs 18.58/Epoch 4.2 built and installed.  I noticed from the
numerous files, that you were a reference for the SUN port.  Am hoping you'll
know the answer off the top of your head for this one, as I do not profess to
be a SUN guru/assembler wizard.

Here's the information:
After compilation of the src/ directory, the test suite begins and fails with
the following information.  I did the build-install with SUN4 as directed by
the notes.  I am using the X11 window system.

/bin/sh -c 'test -f unexshm.c || ln -s ../src/unexshm.c .'
/bin/sh -c 'test -f unexNeXT.c || ln -s ../src/unexNeXT.c .'
/bin/sh -c 'test -f unexfx2800.c || ln -s ../src/unexfx2800.c .'
cc -c -g -Demacs   crt0.c
as: "/tmp/ccom.28273.1.s", line 221: error: redefinition of symbol "__start"
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `crt0.o'


I am running on an Sparcstation IPX with 40 MB RAM, Sun OS 4.1.1 Rev B.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance for 
your help.

Tom Dougherty -- Digital Equipment Corporation

				
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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: What's a prefix argument?
Date: 1 Sep 92 04:49:36 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <17sb61INNlpg@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>
>A prefix argument is a numeric argument (e.g. when you get when you prefix
>a command with M-digits or C-u).  I don't know why the documentation uses
>this term all the time; I can't find it in the online manual.

Strictly speaking, a numeric argument is one type of the more general concept
of prefix argument.  Prefix arguments come in two flavors:  numeric and raw.
The gory details can be found in the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, section
18.7.

The GNU Emacs Manual, on the other hand, is a users manual that doesn't try to
go into all the Emacs Lisp language subtleties.  Doing so would most likely
confuse a new user.  So section 4.9 in the Emacs Manual is called Numeric
Arguments, even though it also discusses the use of C-u, which is bound to the
universal-argument command.

For the GNU Emacs user who is NOT an Emacs Lisp programmer, the phrase
"numeric argument" conveys some meaning immediately while the phrase "prefix
argument" requires some explanation.
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From: mac@bnr.ca (Michael Campbell)
Subject: Re: Binding the DEL key.
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx.
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 03:06:17 GMT

Your problem may be related to the terminal type you are using.
After emacs processes your .emacs file, it eventually loads in 
a file named terminal_type.el (ex: vt100.el) from the "term"
subdirectory of the directory pointed to by the load-path
variable (usually something like "/blah/blah/emacs/lisp/term").

The intent of this file seems to be to provide some vaguely 
intelligent key mappings on per terminal type basis. Unfortunately,
it may overwrite something you set in your .emacs. I had this 
problem with a VT100 key, and eventaully resolved it by 
adding one of my own directories to the head of the load-path
list, and putting in my own vt100.el, which did what I wanted.
Good luck!

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From: eskilb@dhhalden.no (Eskil Brun)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: etags for CLOS and C++?
Keywords: etags, CLOS, C++
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:58:10 GMT
Organization: Ostfold College

I need a more intelligent version of etags. One that can produce useful
output from C++ and CLOS source files. Has anyone any clues?

The current etags (distributed with Emacs 18.58) doesn't deal very well
with method definitions or complex class specifications.

Thanks.

Eyvind Ness

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From: hrue@sima.sintef.no (hrue)
Subject: Re: Rebinding the Meta Key
Organization: SINTEF Industrial Mathematics, Trondheim, Norway
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:56:56

In article  writes:

>   Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to teach emacs to use this key 
>   instead of <ESC>. Can anyone help? Please post to this newsgroup, as I 
>   have seen various forms of htis question posted before, but never an 
>   answer. Thanks!

on my HP X-term i do this by defining my left alt key as the Modifier
1 key by using  xmodmap, so no emacs hack here.

nazgul[test]$ xmodmap -
clear Mod1 
add Mod1 = Alt_L
^D

this require X-windows of course. 

-hr
	
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From: maxim@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Maxim Markevitch)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: sun keys binding - many questions
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:50:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: head-cfa.1992Sep2.025025.7231
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA



I use X emacs in its own window, X11R4 windows on a sparcstation
under SunOS 4.1.1.


Someone has recently asked how to bind the DEL key. I can add to
that question that the DEL key can be bound to delete-char by
defining a macro interactively; but I also failed to do this in
.emacs file.  

It is also problematic to bind F10, Insert, Help and NumLock keys. 
(They all seem to have the same code.)

Also, I have defined all other function keys globally. But in some
modes, for example, in incremental search mode, the binding doesnt
work, and the keys insert their codes in random places of a file. 
Should I define them for ALL minor modes also?

Another question is how the fortran mode keymap should be referred
to in .emacs file? 'fortran-mode-map' doesnt work.


Thanks in advance,
Maxim Markevitch
From: hillel@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (hillel.e.markowitz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: word wrapping (was Re: A better spell checker?)
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:55:46 GMT
Organization: AT&T Federal Systems

In article <BOB.92Aug26102433@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <1992Aug24.152350.26055@hubcap.clemson.edu> andy@mercury.cs.clemson.edu (Andrew J. Greenshields N3IGS) writes:
>   ...the version [of emacs] they have here does not word wrap at the
>   end of each line.  How can I alter it so that it will do this?
>
>Insert lines like this in your ~/.emacs:
>
>(setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
>(setq outline-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
>

....

I find that the following works better.


;;; Turn auto-fill automatically on in all modes
(setq-default auto-fill-hook 'do-auto-fill)

Hillel Markowitz        H_Markowitz@att.com