HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
On Sep 30, 12:19am, Mike Carney wrote:

> Does anyone out there know a way to set up the lhilit package so that
> this doesn't happen?
> --
>From your signature I see you are a regular expressions master -
The secret to the lhilit package is regular expressions that describe what
to highlight.  The package includes a minimal set of those.  So,  just
fix them to your likings.

> 
>                                 |     |                         
>     Michael D. Carney           \\_V_//
>     email: carney@rational.com  \/=|=\/   
>     phone: 408-496-3790          [=v=]     
>                                __\___/_____
>                               /..[  _____  ]
>                              /_  [ [  M /] ]   
>                             /../.[ [ M /@] ]            
>                            <-->[_[ [M /@/] ]  
>                           /../ [.[ [ /@/ ] ] 
>      _________________]\ /__/  [_[ [/@/ C] ]
>     <_________________=>>0--]  [=\ \@/ C / /                           
>                       ]/000o   /__\ \ C / /           
>                               /....\ \_/ /                      
>                               [___/=\___/ 
>                               [...] [...]
>     "Remember...No matter     [___/ \___]
>      where you go, there      <---> <--->
>      you are."                [..]   [..]
>                              _[__]   [__]_
>                             [____>   <____]
>                                       
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>-- End of excerpt from Mike Carney
From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: menubars in 19.3
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:04:37 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Human Communication Research Center


I understand that menubars have become buffer rather than screen local
in 19.3? We still run 19.2, but someone with 19.3 has had problems
with my gnuserv code. Is there a simple way to simulate the 19.2
behaviour in 19.3? It makes much more sense to have server-specific
menus attached to the screen the server code pops up than to have them
attached to a buffer, which could be being edited independently on
another screen.

--
rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk			_O_
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Date: 08 Oct 1992 20:35:50 -0500
From: "Eric L. Schott" <ELS@icf.hrb.com>
Subject: Re: EDT emulation, screen color and font-lock-faces
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In message <9210111039.AA23647@amil.co.il> Danny Bar-Dov wrote:
>
> Lucid renames most the sun keys to be fxx, some to rxx.

We have nothing to do with this.  These poorly chosen names are built into
the X server.  I have flamed at length about this, but the damage is done...

> There are also some pairs of different keys with the same
> key definition i.e. the key marked `Again` and 'L2' is
> f12 - exactly like the key labeled 'F12'.
> 2. Is there a way to differenciate F12 from Again and how ?

You can make these keys generate different keycodes with xmodmap.
But xmodmap is a monster.  You might want to grab my xkeycaps program
from export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xkeycaps.tar.Z instead: it lets you
frob a graphical representation of the keyboard and will write an
xmodmap input file of your changes.

	-- Jamie
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Date: 10 Oct 1992 15:11:02 -0500
From: "Eric L. Schott" <ELS@icf.hrb.com>
Subject: Re: EDT again, ...
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> Date: 10 Oct 1992 01:47:35 +0000 (GMT)
> From: knespl%lprhp3.epfl.ch@lucid.com (David Knespl)
> Subject: EDT again, I am sorry about that :)

> I have installed tpu-edt and changed keymap.  Thanks a lot for posting.
> It supports perfectly cursor movement and keypad editing but is there any
> support for line mode commands? Like EDT search and replace instead of normal
> emacs Isearch? It doesn't seem to work for me 

There is not support in tpu-edt for edt line mode commands.  However,
there are some functions (e.g., "replace") which offer support for
some of those functions.  
---
Eric L. Schott,    HRB Systems, Inc.    814/238-4311     els@icf.hrb.com
  "As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible
   but more mysterious."                  Albert Schweitzer, "Paris Notes"
Excerpt of message (sent 13 October 92) by Danny Bar-Dov:
> Some users here noted that they miss some functionality they used to
> have in emacs 18.55.
> 
> The diff count is 1120 lines so I went to look for defuns.
> Here are the defuns in the ispell.el coming with lucid 19.3:
> 
> (defun highlight-spelling-error (start end &optional highlight dont-modify)
> (defun highlight-spelling-error-v19 (start end &optional highlight dont-modify)
> (defun highlight-spelling-error-v19-Lucid (start end &optional highlight
> (defun ispell-buffer () 
> (defun ispell-choose (miss guess word)
> (defun ispell-filter (process output)
> (defun ispell-init-process ()
> (defun ispell-parse-output (output)
> (defun ispell-pdict-save ()
> (defun ispell-region (reg-start reg-end)
> (defun ispell-word (&optional preceding quietly)
> (defun lookup-words (word)
> (defun overlay-window (height)
> 
> Here are the defuns of the 18.55 ispell.el:
> 
> (defun ispell-buffer () 
> (defun ispell-choose (choices word)
> (defun ispell-complete-word ()
> (defun ispell-ignore-later-occurrences (word)
> (defun ispell-init-process ()
> (defun ispell-parse-output (output)
> (defun ispell-region (start end)
> (defun ispell-word (&optional quietly)
> (defun overlay-window (height)
> ; (defun highlight-region (p1 p2)
> ; (defun unhighlight-region (p1 p2)
> 
> What users here really miss is ispell-complete-word.
> Does anyone know about a more complete ispell ?
> 

I had so much trouble with and DISLIKED the ispell provided with lucid emacs
that I replaced the entire ispell package with the one from GNU Emacs 18.57
which works perfectly well for my liking. Rememeber you have to replace the
ispell exceutable too if you do this.

--
Regards, David
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Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
              Department of Mathematics
Subject: Re: auctex-6.1
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 13:28:33 +0100
From: stephan%math.uni-muenster.de@lucid.com
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
In your message of 30 Sep 92 23:52:32 GMT ,

you (rossini@biosun4.harvard.edu (Anthony Rossini)) write:
>
>Has anyone got Auc-TeX 6.1 running on Lemacs-19.3 without making too many
>(or any) changes?  I have 5.4 running with some modifications, and 6.1 runs
>without modifications on emacs-18.57, but I've been having difficulties
>getting 6.1 to work without problems.  Basically, I'd like some idea of
>whether I should jump in to the task of porting the code to 19.3 (i.e. am I
>being silly, 'cause it should work, or might it be a moderate sized task?)

>thanks,
>-tony
Here are my changes to auctex-6a:

--- auc-tex.el~	Wed Jul 22 21:30:20 1992
+++ auc-tex.el	Tue Aug 25 12:36:56 1992
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
 
     ;; Make sure sentences ending at end of line get an extra space.
     (goto-char from)
-    (while (re-search-forward "[.?!][])""']*$" nil t)
+    (while (re-search-forward "[.?!][])\"']*$" nil t)
       (insert ? ))
     ;; The change all newlines to spaces.
     (subst-char-in-region from (point-max) ?\n ?\ )



Stephan Heuer

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From: reynolds@cwi.nl (Graham Reynolds)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Help building lemacs on SGI Indigo
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:07:56 GMT
Organisation: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
              Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Telefax:      +31 20 592 4199

Hi,

I've been trying to build lemacs (v19.3) on my SGI Indigo-XS (IRIX 4.0.2) without much luck.

I receive the following loader errors which I don't understand:

        cd etc; make  all
        cd src; make  all
        make    -f xmakefile  all
        ld    -L. -L./lwlib    -o temacs pre-crt0.o /usr/lib/crt1.o  dispnew.o screen.o scroll.o xdisp.o window.o       events.o event-alloc.o event-stream.o  term.o cm.o xterm.o xfns.o xselect.o xutils.o event-Xt.o menubar.o sgiplay.o    emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o    buffer.o filelock.o insdel.o marker.o   minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o filemode.o   cmds.o casetab.o casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o undo.o  alloc.o data.o doc.o editfns.o callint.o       eval.o floatfns.o fns.o print.o 




lread.o  abbrev.o syntax.o font_lock.o unexmips.o  mocklisp.o bytecode.o         process.o callproc.o environ.o  doprnt.o extents.o faces.o elhash.o hash.o              realpath.o  terminfo.o lastfile.o gmalloc.o vm-limit.o   ScreenWidget.o ColumnWidget.o EmacsShell.o      -laudio
      ./lwlib/liblw.a -lXm -lXaw -lXext -lXt -lXmu -lX11       -lsun -lmld  -lcurses        -lm  -lbsd -lc /usr/lib/crtn.o
ld:
Undefined:
__main
create_project_p_sheet
create_debugger_p_sheet
create_breaklist_p_sheet
create_le_browser_p_sheet
create_class_browser_p_sheet
create_call_browser_p_sheet
*** Error code 1

Stop.

Does anyone recognise this situation and have a fix to hand, or can someone who has successfully built lemacs for an Indigo advise me on what they did!

Thanks,

-- Graham
From: ssurhode@susssys1.rdg.ac.uk (Paul Rhodes)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: 19.3 and Motif
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:12:57 GMT
Organization: Reading University, England

Ages ago I tried to install lemacs 19.3 on a sparc station under sunos
4.1.1 using motif, and I had no luck whatsoever.... is it now possible
to get things going on this setup ???


Paul.
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech)
Subject: Re: Help with dired on SGI Indigo version of lemacs
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 13:37:40 GMT

reynolds@cwi.nl (Graham Reynolds) writes:

>Having successfully built lemacs-19.3 for my SGI Indigo (after some
>stupidity on my part -- thanks to those who helped me out), I now have
>another problem, this time with Dired.

[...stuff deleted...]

>I then tried loading the dired stuff using load-file, and that worked
>ok, except ... the collapse sub-directory operation "$" doesn't work. It
>reduces the subdirectory to a single (very) long line with "^M"'s
>scattered along it. The expand subdirectory works fine.

>Any help would be appreciated, and please accept my apologies if this is too
>trivial.

>-- Graham. 

The problem on the last is that the selective display feature isn't
working in lucide emacs. This is the feature that displays lines with
^M characters as ... (ie. collapsed). The trick is to change the ^J
into ^M in the region you want hidden. Outline mode also uses this.

The code handling this, is partly missing and completely commented
out. The obvious fix (putting the stuff back in) does not work as the
cursor starts moving about very strangely. 

The Lucid people is aware of it, but according to a post some while
ago, it was somewhat down their todo-list.

I have tried to figure out what is happening, but the display code is
pretty complex, so I gave up then, and hasn't had time to look at it
since.


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Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual.

                                        - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
From: basile@soleil.serma.cea.fr (Basile STARYNKEVITCH)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: lucid-emacs 19.3 on Solaris2 SunOS5
Keywords: SunOS5, Solaris2, SVR4, Sparc, lucid-emacs 19.3
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: basile@soleil.serma.cea.fr (Basile STARYNKEVITCH)
Organization: Commissariat a l Energie Atomique

Hello, I'm new to this newsgroup....

Did anybody ported LucidEmacs 19.3 to SunOS5.0 (on a Sun4/40)?  I tried
a little bit to write a specific configuration file for SunOS5.0 but
failed.  SunOS5.0 is a nearly superset of System V Release 4 on Sparc.
Perhaps an SVR4 config file should be ok...

I wished to build an OLIT based variant of Lemacs (ie i wanted to use
the OLIT widgets in Lemacs). I can compile either with gcc 2.2.2 
(my preference) or (if needed) with Sun unbundled ansi C Solaris compiler.

If any body has some clues, please post and/or email;
Thank you very much...

-- 
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N.B. Les opinions exprimees ici me sont personnelles et n engagent pas le CEA.
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:18:48 PDT
X-Windows: It could happen to you.
From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Subject: Re: font-lock and pending-del
	<GRUNWALD.92Oct16172814@mumble.cs.colorado.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: grunwald@mumble.cs.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
Subject: Re: font-lock and pending-del
Reply-To: grunwald@foobar.cs.colorado.edu
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Distribution: alt
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:28:14


>>>>> On 16 Oct 92 17:46:58 GMT, carney@rocky.rational.com (Mike Carney) said:
MC> Now, has anyone figured out a patch to fix the problems with font-lock
MC> mode and replace-regexp, replace-string, or any other search and
MC> replace function? I think I know what's going on, but don't know how
MC> to fix it. I think the problem is that during each replace, font-lock
MC> mode takes over and uses re-search-forward (in the function
MC> font-lock-hack-keywords), and this screws up the replace operations.
MC> Does anyone know how to fix this?
--

I've run into this same problem -- I think I'll take a look at fixing
it, since it's been very very bothersome (so much that I don't use
font-lock anymore).
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: ltd@netcom.com (Larry Drebes)
Subject: Re: Running out of swap space
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:12:09 GMT

From article <JAIN.92Oct8140300@alpine.jpl.nasa.gov>, by jain@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov (Abhinandan Jain):
> 
> I use Lucid Emacs on a Sun SparcStation IPC. I normally start it up once
> and keep it running over a number of days. However, I run out of swap
> space after a period of time.
> 
> Am I missing something, or is this the normal behavior for Emacs? Thanks
> for your help.

yup, this is not limited to lemacs, a plain old boring emacs18 
will do this also.  it is a pain to have to exit and restart, especially
if you have lot's of windows with many paths.  every couple of days when
i restart emacs i think about writing a small elisp script to save all 
the info for each buffer (all faces, window & icon info...) to be re-loaded
later (sort of like the old sunview toolplaces).  i think between the
X server & emacs everything can be accessed -- anyone care to comment?

having emacs only link statically & grow forever are somewhat
unacceptable (although emacs does do almost everything) in current
times.  this is directly offsetted by huge swap areas &
30 mips on the desktop.

larry-
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:58:40 PDT
X-Windows: You'll envy the dead.
From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Subject: Re: screen-menubar
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
In message <9210132322.AA02459@multimedia.cc.gatech.edu> Ian Smith wrote:
>
> what's up with this? From the NEWS file:
> ------------------------------
> screen-menubar (&optional screen)

Menubars are no longer screen-local.  Look at the variable `current-menubar'
instead.

	-- Jamie
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: allen@golem.ssc.gov (Michael Allen)
Subject: LucidEmacs-19.3 and VM 5.32.L (beta) on Decstation
Reply-To: allen@ssc.gov
Organization: SSC Laboratory, Dallas, TX
Distribution: alt.lucid-emacs
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 14:46:52 GMT


I am using LucidEmacs-19.3 and VM 5.32.L (beta) on a Decstation
5000/120 running ultrix 4.2.  Every once in a while (at least once a
day), the emacs/vm combination locks up.  The only recourse seems to
be killing emacs and starting again.  Anyone else seen this?  Any
solution?

-Thanks,
 Michael
--
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===================================================
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        Those Who Planned;                         
And the minds who planned the Tower of Babel       
        Cared nothing for the workers who built it.

	-Metropolis
From: knespl@lprhp3.epfl.ch (David Knespl)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: EDT again, I am sorry about that :)
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:47:35 GMT
Reply-To: knespl@lprhp3.epfl.ch (David Knespl)
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

I am sorry to bother you with my permanent questions about EDTemulation,
but I try to convince our system administrator to place lemacs in usr partition 
and use it.
I have all the files in my HOME and it takes same space. He is the old EDT user etc. etc.
There is no doc , so...

I have installed tpu-edt and changed keymap.  Thanks a lot for posting.
It supports perfectly cursor movement and keypad editing but is there any support
for line mode commands? Like EDT search and replace instead of normal emacs Isearch?
It doesn't seem to work for me 

Thank you for any help
lemacs is  (or are?) really wonderful!

David

P.S.  also thanks for answers about colors and font-lock
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:56:48 PDT
X-Windows: Power tools for power losers.
From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Subject: Re: epoch and lucid
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
In message <JSC.92Oct12120849@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM> John Cooper wrote:
>
> o  I couldn't figure how to switch between screens (from the keyboard)
>    and have lucid raise the new screen to the top of the window stack.
>    In epoch I use C-z o and C-z p.

The M-o command switches focus to another screen.  It does this by sending
a TAKE_FOCUS message to your window manager.  Whether this causes the window
to be raised is up to your window manager; clients which second-guess the
window manager by raising the window themselves in such sitations are not
ICCCM compliant.

But, if you're using a window manager that can't be configured to do this,
you can set the variable `auto-raise-screen' to t, and emacs will be non-
ICCCM-compliant for you.

	-- Jamie
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:30:58 PDT
From: yonkman@greip.css.gov (Tom Yonkman)
Subject: EDT emulation
Reply-To: yonkman@esosun.css.gov
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Re: email from Dave Knespl

I too would like to know how to get EDT emulation really to work with EDT
keys on Sun 4 keyboard.

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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:09:47 PDT
X-Windows: The art of incompetence.
From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
Subject: Re: GNUS under kemacs can't read large newsgroup
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
In message <PHIL.92Oct5061000@sol.mdl.com> Phil Usatine wrote:
>
> Under lemacs, using the version of gnus distributed with Lucid Emacs 19.2
> (June 19) I get the following error when I try to load a group with lots of
> articles: Wrong type argument: syntax-table-p, nil
> 
> The gnus version claims to be 3.13, but I am running 3.13 under emacs
> version 18.57.19 with no difficulties.

This is fixed in lemacs 19.3 (which, incidentally, includes GNUS 3.14.)

	-- Jamie
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: thormod@hal.nta.no (Thormod Spilling FDD)
Subject: Re: Novice Help On Key Binding
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 07:28:08 GMT

In article <9210130033.AA18369@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>, lam@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Josh Lam) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 
|> I am no emacs or lisp guru so please pardon me if this is a simple
|> question:
|> 
|> I have been using GNU Emacs on a Sun and in my .emacs file, I did the
|> following: 
|> 
|> (global-set-key "\e[214z" 'beginning-of-buffer) ; binds R7 key to
|>                                                 ; beginning-of-buffer 
|>                                                 ; command
|> 
|> However when I started lucid emacs, it loaded my .emacs file but when I
|> tried to use the R7 key it says "f27 not defined"
|> 
|> Why do I get f27 when I press the R7 key? What do I need to do in my .emacs
|> file in order to make the R7 key bind to beginning-of-buffer?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
|> 
|> Josh Lam
|> Honeywell Inc
|> lam@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com
|> 


Hi,

try this: (global-set-key [f27] 'beginning-of-buffer) 
	
		; binds R7 (f27) key to beginning-of-buffer

Thormod Spilling
Norwegian Telecom Research
thormod@nta.no
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: jain@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov (Abhinandan Jain)
Subject: Running out of swap space
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:03:00 GMT


I use Lucid Emacs on a Sun SparcStation IPC. I normally start it up once
and keep it running over a number of days. However, I run out of swap
space after a period of time.

I assumed (perhaps naively) that all the swap space used up for a new
screen would be freed when I delete the screen using the delete-screen
function. However that does not appear to happen.  (I have been using the
pstat command to check the memory usage.) Over a period of time, after
having created and deleted a number of screens,  I run out
of swap space. The only way I can recover the memory is to quit Emacs
and start all over again. It is only rarely that I have more than 2-3
active screens at any one time. 

Am I missing something, or is this the normal behavior for Emacs? Thanks
for your help.

By the way, can anyone tell me how to change the background color for the
highlighting used for  minibuffer completion using the middle button on
the mouse? Thanks again.

abhi jain