HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: roy@alfrat.uucp (Roy Phillips)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
Subject: COBOL Mode for Emacs?
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:47:19 GMT
Reply-To: roy@alfrat.UUCP (Roy Phillips)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: A+F System-Entwicklung, W-Germany

If there is one language that *needs* an Emacs
editing mode, it is COBOL.  Anyone seen one?

Just the data division would do...

Ta!

Roy
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
From: dltest@castle.ed.ac.uk (Kevin Davidson)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources,comp.emacs
Subject: `Improved' auto-insert.el
Keywords: emacs auto-insert
Date: 18 Aug 92 12:14:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Organization: Edinburgh University

I tried the autoinsert.el that came with our distribution 
[GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Wed Mar  7 1990 on castle (berkeley-unix)]
written by Charlie Martin, dated 1/7/1988 and wasn't too impressed.

I added some stuff to make it a little friendlier and more general:
;;; Much hacked about by Kevin Davidson <dltest@castle.ed.ac.uk>
;;; 18th August 1992
;;; Whole buffer is marked. If auto-insertion is not wanted, ^W will remove
;;; it all.
;;; Now replaces % escapes in inserted file:
;;; %u is replaced by user's login name
;;; %U is user's full name
;;; %f is the file name (without directory part)
;;; %F is the file name capitalised
;;; %b is the base file name, without suffix
;;; %B is the base file name capitalised
;;; %p is the full path name of the file
;;; %P is the directory part of the file name
;;; %d is the current date and time
;;; %% is a %

  Has this already been done ? If not is anybody interested in trying it
and offering buggestions before I post it ? 
  It comes with a perl-insert that includes all the #!/exec hacks and
does the work of wrapman, combining skeleton manual page and program in
one file.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.CH (Martin Maechler)
Subject: Small PROPOSAL for nicer  ./term/sun.el
Reply-To: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Organization: Source only  Discussion and requests in gnu.emacs.help.
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:32:37 GMT

I PROPOSE a small nice improvement to the  ./term/sun.el  
(any Emacs 18.5x, I think)

Idea: Make a much more user-friendly 
	interface to  RE-DEFINING Function Keys:

	This is supposed to ENHANCE  standard  ./term/sun.el,
	so please look there for the context ...

I have defined the three  1-line [rest: only documentation] functions  

(defun define-sun-key-R (key-n definition)
  "Define one of the SUN function keys R1, R2,..., R15 (= keypad, right-hand).
 Argument KEY-N is a simple number; DEFINITION usually an interactive function.
 --> DO NOT redefine the cursor keys R8, R10, R12, R14"
  (define-key sun-raw-map (concat (+ 207 key-n) "z") definition))

(defun define-sun-key-L (key-n definition)
  "Define one of the SUN function keys L1, L2,..., L10 (left-hand keys).
 Argument KEY-N is a simple number; DEFINITION usually an interactive function"
  (define-key sun-raw-map (concat (+ 191 key-n) "z") definition))

(defun define-sun-key-F (key-n definition)
  "Define one of the SUN function keys F1, F2,..., F9 (upper-row keys).
 Argument KEY-N is a simple number; DEFINITION usually an interactive function"
  (define-key sun-raw-map (concat (+ 223 key-n) "z") definition))


	Now you can use things like (in your .emacs or somewhere ..)

(define-sun-key-R  7 'beginning-of-line)	; R7	Home
(define-sun-key-R 13 'ease-end-of-line)		; R13	End

(define-sun-key-R  9 'scroll-down)		; R9	PgUp
(define-sun-key-R 15 'scroll-up)		; R15 	PgDn

	instead of (as in $EMACS/term/sun.el :)

(define-key sun-raw-map "216z" 'scroll-down)		; R9


One could add   (interactive ...) to the 3 functions which I did not.

-- Enjoy, and let me know your constructive critics ! --

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>			<><
Seminar fuer Statistik, SOL F5 \\ ETH (Federal Inst. Technology)
8092 Zurich	SWITZERLAND  	phone: x-41-1-256-3408
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
From: buzz@toxicavenger.bear.com (Buzz Moschetti)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
Subject: Threaded GNUS?
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:59:06 GMT
Reply-To: buzz@fsrg.bear.com
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

Does it exist?  I'm running V3.13 GNUS and although I'm not crazy about threading,
I wish to silence the ravings of the trn lobby.  Any clues are most appreciated.



Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
From: shawn@litsun.epfl.ch (Shawn Koppenhoefer)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources,alt.mud.tiny
Subject: looking for docs on mud.el
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:28:03 GMT
Reply-To: shawn@litsun.epfl.ch
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.sources
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


i'm trying to find documentation for mud.el
has anyone seen it??

specifically, i want to know what to put in my ~/.mud file so that
emacs correctly parses it when i launch mud.el

anyone?
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
From: boon@fys.ruu.nl (Sjirk Boon)
Subject: WANTED: mouse- and tex-mode for DEMACS
Keywords: DEMACS, mouse , TeX, start-process
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht,  The Netherlands
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:57:32 GMT

	I'm planning to write my thesis using DEMACS on a 386 laptop. I
have two questions:

* does a mouse-mode exist for DEMACS ? I'm using a microsoft bus-mouse.

* is it possible to port tex-mode (or better AUC-TEX) to DEMACS ? There
  is a problem because 'start-process' is not implemented in DEMACS, you
  have to replace it with 'call-process' in order to run TeX from a
  DEMACS-buffer. I'm not a LISP-wizard, so I can't do it myself. 

B.T.W. all other lisp-files ( e.g. that don't contain 'start-processes')
work great in DEMACS ! 

	Many thanks in advance,
-- 
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Buys Ballot Laboratorium
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
From: "rick sheridan" <rick.sheridan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
Subject: demacs compile
Date: 13 Aug 92 02:48:46 EST
Reply-To: "rick sheridan" <rick.sheridan@channel1.com>
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

I'm trying to use Demacs and Borland C++ 3.1, but the errors are not
being parsed correctly.  Changing just the regular expression in
COMPILE.EL didn't work so I assume the problem lies in the parsing
function itself.  Here is the format of the error/warning message from
BC++:

        Error c:\borlandc\lafore\ch9ex2.cpp 10: Function should return a
        value in function main()

(substitute Warning for Error)

The line number alone is given.

Also, how do I get Demacs to recognize .cpp as a C file and
automatically invoke c-mode?

Any help would be most appreciated.

TIA

--Rick

rick.sheridan@channel1.com
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
From: muts@fss.fokker.NL (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Threaded GNUS?
Organization: Source only  Discussion and requests in gnu.emacs.help.
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 10:19:35 GMT

>>Op 14 Aug 92 15:59:06 GMT schreef u:

  > Does it exist?  I'm running V3.13 GNUS and although I'm not crazy
  > about threading, I wish to silence the ravings of the trn lobby.
  > Any clues are most appreciated.

But GNUS *is* treaded. (at least 3.14 is). You just have to set the
right configurations and then you see indentation per thread, het
articles in tread order, can kill 1 thread at a time, etc.

___________________________________________________________________________
Peter Mutsaers.      Fokker Space & Systems BV            |================ 
internet:muts@fss.fokker.nl   uucp:sun4nl!fss!muts        | "Memento Mori"
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help
From: Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom)
Subject: Re: Getting 2 ~/.signatures - problem with my fix
Organization: Communicator Nexus AB
	<THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Aug20173351@beck.nexus.comm.se>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:36:50 GMT

In article <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Aug20173351@beck.nexus.comm.se> Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:


   whats wrong with:
   (setq gnus-signature-file nil)))	; To get rid of the double .signatures

Of course I goofed!             ^^^ Should of course be only one paren.
Cut and paste is not always all that good.

Thomas
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From: ssh@vnet.ibm.com
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Mucho garbage collecting
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:36:53 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: ISSC Boulder

Has anyone else had problems with Emacs going into a garbage collecting loop
after using GNUS for a while?  I tend to use Emacs for everything (most notably
mail, news, and normal editing), and after an hour or so, Emacs begins to
garbage collect every few seconds (regardless of actions on my part), and
become so sluggish as to be unusable.  I kill it and start a new one.

Any idea why this is happening, or what I might be able to do about it?  I have

   (setq gc-cons-threshold 1000000)

in my init file, since I'm running solo on a 6000.

Any ideas appreciated by e-mail or post...
--
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ski bum, believer in the impossible                                ISSC Boulder
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
From: seligman@CS.Stanford.EDU (Scott Seligman)
Subject: Re: Restart on Loss Of Server?
Organization: Stanford University
	<1992Aug19.064401.15006@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:10:15 GMT

>When I do
>	M-x gnus-start-news-server
>I get
>	[No match]
>
>In other words, somebody added this to your installation. It is not
>part of the GNUS distribution.


Oh yeah, it's not interactive by default (should be).  Use

  ESC ESC (gnus-start-news-server)

instead.



Scott Seligman

Internet:  seligman@CS.Stanford.EDU
UUCP:      {uunet,decwrl,sun}!cs.stanford.edu!seligman
From: shoe@world.std.com (Jack N Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: KILLing all but a few articles
Date: 16 Aug 92 15:25:16 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

How do I do it?

For example, what if I wanted to mark all articles in gnu.emacs.gnus as read except those which contain "KILL" in the Subject field?  TIA - Jack
-- 
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Xref: sparky gnu.emacs.gnus:1015 gnu.emacs.vm.bug:541
From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,gnu.emacs.vm.bug
Subject: Re: gnus-reply-mail-using-vm?
Date: 16 Aug 92 22:36:38 GMT
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.gnus
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
In-reply-to: ckd@eff.org's message of 12 Aug 92 18:21:05 GMT

In article <CKD.92Aug12142102@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:

   Has anyone come up with a gnus-reply-mail-using-vm that would do the
   Right Thing with References:, etc, and dump you into vm-mail?  This
   would be for vm 5.32beta and GNUS 3.13 (or 3.14.1; I haven't upgraded yet).

Enclosed below.

Enjoy,

Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
Member of the League for Programming Freedom --- send e-mail for details

----------------------------------------------------------------------
;; Author: Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
;; Allows using VM's mail sending instead of the default version from GNUS.

;;(setq gnus-mail-reply-method 'gnus-mail-reply-using-mail)
(setq gnus-mail-reply-method 'gnus-mail-reply-using-vm)

(defun gnus-mail-reply-using-vm (&optional yank)
  "Compose reply mail using VM.
Optional argument YANK means yank original article."
  ;; Ugly hack to work around fact that vm-mail-internal always uses
  ;; switch-to-buffer.  Duplicate old GNUS functionality.
  (save-excursion
    (pop-to-buffer " *dummy buffer*"))
  (save-restriction
    (narrow-to-region (point-min) (progn (goto-line (point-min))
					 (search-forward "\n\n")
					 (- (point) 1)))
    (vm-mail-internal
     (format "reply to %s:%d" gnus-newsgroup-name gnus-current-article)     
     (or (mail-fetch-field "reply-to")
	 (mail-fetch-field "from"))
     (mail-fetch-field "subject")
     nil nil
     (concat (mail-fetch-field "references") " "
	     (mail-fetch-field "message-id"))
     (mail-fetch-field "newsgroups")))
  (gnus-handle-references)
  (make-local-variable 'mail-reply-buffer)
  (setq mail-reply-buffer gnus-Article-buffer)
  (if yank
      (let ((last (point)))
	(goto-char (point-max))
	;; This will delete window on *Article* buffer
	(mail-yank-original nil)
	(goto-char last)
	)))

;; The references filling functionality should be moved to vm-mail-internal
(defun gnus-handle-references (&rest additional-references)
  (save-excursion
    (mail-position-on-field "References")
    (insert " " (mapconcat 'identity additional-references " "))
    (save-restriction
      (narrow-to-region (1+ (point))
			(progn (re-search-backward "^[^ \t]")
			       (point)))
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (re-search-forward "[ \t\n]+" nil 'move)
	(replace-match " "))
      (delete-char -1)
      (insert ?\n)
      (let ((fill-column 79)
	    (fill-prefix " "))		; save space on screen
	;; Fold long references line to follow RFC1036.
	;; The region must end with a newline to fill the region
	;; without inserting extra newline.
	(fill-region-as-paragraph (point-min) (point-max))))))
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: Threaded GNUS?
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:53:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: splinter.RATINOX.92Aug14175342
	<RATINOX.92Aug14174533@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
Reply-To: ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.gnus
Distribution: gnu
Organization: 3WA, Boston Office. Or Nu Meta Chi. Take your pick.
In-reply-to: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu's message of 14 Aug 92 21:45:33 GMT
X-Get-A-Clue: Have two, they're small.
X-Signature-Virus-Protection: Version 1.51
X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.14.1 [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ]

>>>>> "RP" == Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat
>>>>> <ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu> writes:

RP> GNUS will follow threads within a newsgroup; it does not follow threads
RP> across newsgroups other than to mark them as read, depending on how
RP> gnus-use-cross-reference is set.

I forgot to mention that "^" (gnus-Subject-refer-parent-article) in the
Subject buffer will find the parent article to the one you're currently
reading, regardless of the newsgroup it's in.

--Rat

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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: "inverse" to gnus-Subject-expand-window?
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 17:04:48 EDT

Is there an "inverse" function to gnus-Subject-expand-window? That is,
a function that will guarantee that the *Article* buffer is being
shown with whatever contents it presently has, or had when you hid it?
gnus-Subject-show-article isn't it, because it shows the CURRENT
article, which may not be the one that shows in the *Article* buffer.

For instance, suppose I use "^" to look at the parent of an article,
then do "="; is there a function that will bring the parent back onto
the screen?

(If I knew the article number of the article being shown, I could do
(gnus-Subject-display-article (article-number))... but I don't know
how to get the article number... again, gnus-Subject-article-number
doesn't do it.)

Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
From: garlets@a1.arc.umn.edu (The Q)
Subject: Subscription request
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:06:17 GMT

Please place me on the mailing list:

garlets@ahpcrc.umn.edu

Thank you.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
From: spike@coke.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Subject: Re: getting 2 .signatures
Organization: Software Tool & Die
	<SPIKE.92Aug12134627@coke.std.com>
	<KEVIN.92Aug13094218@buffalobill.edscom.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:47:08 GMT

In (see above) kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey) writes:
<Yep, that would work.  But if I do that, C-c C-w (mail-signature) in mail mode
<won't have anything to insert.  I just checked in sendmail.el and there isn't a
<`mail-signature-file' variable - it uses "~/.signature" directly.  I suppose I
<could hack one in without too much trouble, but it's curing the symptoms rather
<than the problem.  Also, making these changes stops programs outside emacs (trn
<and mail, for instance) from working as expected.
<Anyone got a `cleaner' solution?

	With C News (and I believe the same is true of B News) "inews"
always includes your ".signature" if it exists.  The only way to stop
this is to hack the code out (which is rely in
"$NEWSBIN/inject/pnews").

	However "inews" does rely on $HOME to find your ".signature"
so if you hacked gnuspost.el/nnspool.el to set $HOME to /dev/null
before calling /bin/inews, you might have something.

->Spike
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
From: msanghvi@sol.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Mehul Sanghvi)
Subject: downsizing of .newsrc
Reply-To: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: UMass-Lowell CS Dept.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:59:45 GMT

upto now i have been using GNUS over rn, but on the workstations i'd like to
use Xrn. Now the only thing is that with Gnus i had removed all the newgroups
i did not want by killing them in Gnus and by removing them from ~/.newsrc
file. Xrn on the other hand adds them back to the end of the file. i dont want
it to do this. i read about 5-7 groups regularly and a few others when i have
xtra time on my hands. my question to you is, is there a way theat will allow
me to only have those newsgroups in my .newsrc that i want and nothing else? i
would like Xrn to start up faster and are there any options or something that
i can use with .newsrc file to do this??

peace

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INTERNET: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu      |            Lowell, MA. 01850-1804
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A nymph hits you and steals your virginity.
From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Unnecessary loading of KILL files
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:28:51 GMT
Organization: LAAS-CNRS France

Why does GNUS reload the KILL file when one visits a group that has
zero unread articles (meaning that they are already KILLed), or when
one hits `G' to reselct the current newsgroup in the *Subject* buffer.
In the second case the KILL file has already been applied to the
newsgroup.

I believe that newsgroup KILL files should *only* be applied when
there are *unread* articles on newsgroup entry.  Once in the *Subject*
buffer the KILL files should be deactivated.  It is a slow process
going through *old* articles and waiting for the KILL file to do
absolutely nothing (especially if your kill file has 40 lines!).

By the way, this concerns GNUS 3.13.

Any comments?
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From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: Restart on Loss Of Server?
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:17:55 GMT
	<OLSTAD.92Aug13124549@kl.msc.edu>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS France
In-reply-to: olstad@kl.msc.edu's message of 13 Aug 92 18:45:49 GMT

and might I add the following unused key bindings for GNUS?

(define-key gnus-Group-mode-map "\C-cN" 'my-nntp-reopen-server)
(define-key gnus-Subject-mode-map "\C-cN" 'my-nntp-reopen-server)

or 'gnus-reconnect if you like.

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Let's hear it for justice, California style!  Bravo, guys!  SNAFU!
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: Re: getting 2 .signatures
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 17:58:32 GMT

I'm new to USENET and GNUS, so please bear with me if this is an FAQ...

When I post an article, GNUS stuffs in all the wonderous header lines and slaps
the "~/.signature" file onto the end.  It then passes the buffer to "inews -h",
which promptly slaps another one on!

I've got round it for now by setting "gnus-signature-file" to nil, stopping
GNUS doing the biz.  Trouble is, I might want to use the
"~/.signature-DISTRIBUTION" feature one day, so I'd like a more permanent cure.

"man inews" doesn't mention a flag for turning of appending the sig file, but
"man Pnews" does mention the DOTDIR environment variable.  Could I set this to
somewhere silly (like /dev/null) so inews thinks I haven't got a sig file, or
do I have to hack inews myself?

TIA
-- 
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E-mail: kbroadey@edscom.demon.co.uk
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus