HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Hello Kyle !

	A snapshot from my bugs/wish list file, it might be a bit
cryptic, but I hope you can understand most of it, otherwise I'll be
happy to try and explain things ...:-)


	Yours

		svein t.


--- +++ ---

Svein Tjemsland
R&D Engineer, Software Tools
Ericsson Telecom, Norway
Tangen Alle 39
Pb. 44
4817 HIS
Norway

e-mail: etnstj@etn.ericsson.se
tel +47 (0)41 19483
fax +47 (0)41 10383

================================

Quick notes about bugs and wishes:

Screen up and down doesn`t end up in top or bottom of file, the last
screenful is not moved.

Also vm gets confused when doing lots of screen-up and down, seems to lose
track of the size of a screenful.

Should keep track of cursor positions on vm-summary so that cursor can
be moved and consequently select a mail.
(similar to gnus - cursor position defines what you are interested in,
i.e regardless of whether the mail has been marked as deleted or not)
Should be possible to sort mail on date , name etc. etc.

Statuses are not always taken into effect, thus the INBOX can contain
headers for files which are deleted - especially when the INBOX
(Summary) buffer is killed (with C-x C-c). I.e the statuses are not always saved
correctly.

When visiting another users mailfile, one will be asked to try and
save even if it is write-protected, when "no" is answered
vm will go ahead and try to save it anyway, consequently resulting in
error.

Vm sometimes get confused when generating a header for a mail, see
included headings for examples.

====================================================================
Wish list:

Visit folder in other window

Visit several folders at once
(i.e looking at one folder while keeping the INBOX SUMMARY open at the
same time)

Automatically check for new mail at given intervals.



------------------------------------------------------------------------
Included headings:

1       9482              Jul 31   25/624   "test of forward with extra line"

From: etnrwi (Raymond A. Wiker (9482))
To: etnstj
Subject: test av forward with extra line
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:57:48 +0100
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug
From: kpc@pluto.arc.nasa.gov (k p c)
Subject: suggestion and version query
Reply-To: kpc@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center AI Research Branch; Sterling.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:50:50 GMT

a quick suggestion: i frequently want = to work the way it does in
gnus, opening up the subject window all the way if you are in the
subject window.  h can work the same way it does, but a new binding
for = would be great.

a question: will there be a new version coming out that incorporates
fixes for the motion commands (spc, at least) in 5.32?  just curious.
From: dave@appi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: Sorting in VM
Date: 12 Sep 92 23:00:29 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Institute of Industrial Science, University of tokyo.

In the VM info file there is a description of "grouping" messages in a
folder.  It says that "grouping" should not be confused with sorting,
since it doesn't change the locations in the file.

But I couldn't find anything in the info file about sorting.
I would like to sort all my folders by date and time.  Are there any
routines already available for this?

TIA,
Dave
-----
David Wuertele, Yasuda Lab, Electronic Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science,
University of Tokyo.				dave@windsor.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
From: awb7h@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Andrew William Bartelt)
Subject: Saving mail messages
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:37:28 GMT

Question:

I like to save mail messages from people to files named by their mail
ids.  For example my mail address is awb7h@virginia.edu.  If I were to
send myself mail, I would like to save the message in the file awb7h.
Is there anyway that I can get VM to automatically prompt me with the
correct file name when I save the file?


--
--
Andrew W. Bartelt           UVa: 325 Roberta Gwathmey
awb7h@virginia.edu               Station #1  22904-0008
From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: Re: Saving mail messages
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:10:20 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: draconis.cis.ksu.edu

awb7h@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Andrew William Bartelt) writes:

> Question:

> I like to save mail messages from people to files named by their mail
> ids.  For example my mail address is awb7h@virginia.edu.  If I were to
> send myself mail, I would like to save the message in the file awb7h.
> Is there anyway that I can get VM to automatically prompt me with the
> correct file name when I save the file?

The following section of text is from the vm texinfo manual, my
solution to this problem is described below it:

------- begin excerpt from vm manual ------------------------------------

Another aid to selecting folders in which to save mail is the variable
`vm-auto-folder-alist'.  The value of this variable should be a list of
the form,

     ((HEADER-NAME
        (REGEXP . FOLDER-NAME) ...)
       ...)

where HEADER-NAME and REGEXP are strings, and FOLDER-NAME is a string or
an s-expression that evaluates to a string.

If any part of the contents of the message header named by HEADER-NAME
is matched by the regular expression REGEXP, VM will evaluate the
corresponding FOLDER-NAME and use the result as the default when
prompting for a folder to save the message in.

------------------ end excerpt from vm manual --------------------------

Personally, I had a hard time getting this to work.  Here's what I
finally came up with:

(setq vm-auto-folder-alist
      '(("From"
	 ("<\\(.*\\)\\(@.*\\)>" . (buffer-substring
				   (match-beginning 1)
				   (match-end 1)))
	 ("\\(.*\\)\\(@.*\\)" . (buffer-substring
				 (match-beginning 1)
				 (match-end 1))))
	))

This seems to work ok for me.  If anyone has better values for the
vm-auto-folder-alist, I'd like to see them.

  --Jerry Frain, frain@cis.ksu.edu
From: rdong@PLAYMATE.MAT.JHU.EDU (Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~})
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: BBDB w/ virtual folders in VM
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:33:58 GMT


	I have trouble using BBDB w/virtual folders in VM. Everytime I do
`M-x vm-visit-virtual-folder', it says `Args out of range ...'. Debugging
traces the error to `vm-update-record'. Commenting out
`(bbdb-insinuate-vm)' does solve the problem :-). I found virtual folders
to be very handy for reading FAQs stored (either locally or remotely via
ange-ftp) in multiple part mail format. I can use `*' to burst them into
topics.

	I'm using VM 5.31B and BBDB 1.46 w/ Emacs 18.57 under SunOS 4.12
and have compressed mail folders (uncompressed by crypt.el).

Regards,
			Rui - Tao
From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Can I expand an abbrev without the space getting added on the end ?
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:47:20 GMT
 <WMESARD.92Sep4121833@tofu.oracle.com>
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
In-reply-to: wmesard@tofu.oracle.com's message of 4 Sep 92 20:18:33 GMT

In article <WMESARD.92Sep4121833@tofu.oracle.com> wmesard@tofu.oracle.com (Wayne Mesard) writes:

   The insertion of the character you type is the very last thing that
   happens during the abbrev-expansion procedure and there's no opportunity
   for client elisp code to suppress that.

You can do this:

  (setq unread-command-char ?\C-?)

This will only work if DEL (aka C-?) is bound to a function that deletes
the previous character.  If necessary, you save the old binding of some
key, rebind that key to a function that will delete the previous character
and restore the old binding, and then set unread-command-char to that key.

-- 
Enjoy,

Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
Member of the League for Programming Freedom --- send e-mail for details
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: Re: regexp question
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:43:54 GMT

>>>>> In article <0095FF634B88F600.35E00332@giant.IntraNet.com>, "Del"
>>>>> == del@giant.INTranet.COM (G. Del Merritt) replies:

>Ok, I had the following text
>
>Computer Engineering meets in _________________
>
>
>... I wanted to replace the sequnce of underscores with a question
>mark so I did M-x replace-regexp _* with ? but it put question marks
>between each letter of all the words.
>
>Why did this happen?

Del> The _* says "replace whereever you find the character `_' _zero_ or
Del> more times, which it "found" after every character.  What did _you_
Del> want to happen?

>How can I get replace-regexp to do what I want?


You want to do  M-x replace-regexp _+ with ?  The "+" means previous
thing repeated 1 or more times (* means zero or more).
--
Kevin Broadey <kbroadey@edscom.demon.co.uk>
EDS-Scicon, Wavendon Tower, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LX, England.
Phone: +44 908 284198 (direct) or +44 908 585858 ext 4198
These opinions are mine: others available on request.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: pww@cray.com (Paul Wells)
Subject: Sun OpenLook and multi-line screen updates
Keywords: openlook
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:25:07 CDT

I recently switched from SunView to OpenLook, and lost my fast emacs screen
updates.  Under SunView, I had the line:

/Tty/Retained   "Yes"

in my .defaults file, which, according to a note in emacs/etc/SUN-SUPPORT
caused the terminal emulator to use bitblt when performing multiple-line
inserts and deletes.

I've tried using the text.retained resource, but to no avail.  Does anyone 
know the Xview equivilent to /Tty/Retained?

- Paul Wells

Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: hurd@math.gatech.edu (Lyman Hurd)
Subject: flat memory '386 port of GNU emacs
Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:10:21 GMT

Does there exist out there a flat memory port of GNU emacs for a
'386 based machine running a DOS extender.  Before being booed down
I should add that the choice of platform was not mine!

Thanks for any help,

Lyman Hurd 
Iterated Systems, Inc.

P.S. Please reply by email to me (I.e., I do not subscribe to this list; I
am a guest on this machine and my RMAIL file is antisocially large as it
is!)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: ericdh@cray.com (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Subject: How do I initialize a variable at start-up, and keep it?
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: gnu
Date: 15 Sep 92 11:08:10 CDT


I am optimizing my .emacs file a little, and I find that when I do M-x
load-file ~/.emacs, its not the same as an initial start-up of Emacs
because my elisp path and auto-mode-alist are already set, thus not
accurately reflecting any holes in my start-up.

I would like to make my .emacs such that every time I do a M-x load-file
~/.emacs, everything starts over fresh.  Such as my load-path, etc.

The way I have started is to do something like this:

;;; initialize load-path
;;;
(if (string-equal 'initial-load-path "")
    (let initial-load-path 'load-path)  ; save for M-x load-path ~/.emacs
)
(setq load-path (cons (concat (getenv "HOME") "/elisp") initial-load-path))

The problem with this is that initial-load-path is a void symbol initially,
and there doesn't seem to be a way to initialize it to 'load-path ONLY at
Emacs start-up.

Does anybody have a solution for this?  Perhaps there is a completely
better direction than this one to achieve the same purpose.

Thanks for any help!

                --eric
(p.s. is there an easier way to append a file to a buffer than reading the
file in (with C-x f) and doing a C-x a to append it?  e.g. manually
appending my .signature to a buffer?)
--
I happen to be a Republican president- ah, the vice president.
		-- Vice President Dan Quayle (Newsweek 4/9/90)

Eric D. Hendrickson       Damnit!  I can't stop the heterocyclic declination!
Cray Research, Inc.                                        The game is afoot!
612/683-5302              ericdh@cray.com                    Eh to desu ne...
-- 
I happen to be a Republican president- ah, the vice president.
		-- Vice President Dan Quayle (Newsweek 4/9/90)

Eric D. Hendrickson       Damnit!  I can't stop the heterocyclic declination!
From: dave@appi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Fuzzy Text Comparison Code?
Date: 8 Sep 92 10:04:22 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Institute of Industrial Science, University of tokyo.

Hi, I'm writing a vocabulary learning application in elisp.  It's working
great and soon I will post it to gnu.emacs.sources.  There is one
function, however, that I would like to improve upon, and maybe you gurus
out there can give me some suggestions.

The function I want to re-write is defined something like this:

	(defun correlation (input-string reference-string)
	  "Compare two strings, and return an integer in the range [0..10]
	roughly representing their correlation."
	  ;; insert code here
	  )

The function should act something like this:

	(correlation "The Same STRING, really" "the same string really")
	     => 10  ;; case shouldn't count

	(correlation "The SAME string (really!)" "the same string really")
	     => 10  ;; punctuation of any kind shouldn't count

	(correlation "Almost the Same string, really" "the same string really")
	     => 10  ;; the input includes the output

	(correlation "really the string same" "the same string really")
	     => 10  ;; order should not matter.
	
	(correlation "The very different thing" "the same string really")
	     => 0   ;; words like 'the and 'a should not count as matches

	(correlation "stringamasamethingreally" "the same string really")
	     => ?   ;; I haven't decided what this should produce.

	(correlation "male" "female")
	     => 0   ;; the string 'female contains the string 'male, but, well, you get it.

	(correlation "dogs and cats" "the same dog, really")
	     => 3   ;; one third of the important words was matched (with a plural)

Any suggestions?

TIA,
Dave
-----
David Wuertele, Yasuda Lab, Electronic Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science,
University of Tokyo.				dave@windsor.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
Subject: Re: Using <ALT> as meta key
Organization: Home
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:46:14 GMT

Thanks, that works perfectly.

-- 
   Simon Langley                   (preferred)   slangley@constant.demon.co.uk
   Hampstead, London                             slangley@cix.compulink.co.uk
From: saswfk@thurstne.unx.sas.com (Warren F. Kuhfeld)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Get rid of double words - looking for .el file
Keywords: double words
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:31:50 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Cary NC
Originator: saswfk@thurstne.unx.sas.com


In article <hfaester.716566184@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, hfaester@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hannes Faestermann) writes:
|> I'm looking for an emacs lisp file that allows cleaning text files
|> from double occurences of words like in 'In the the summertime...'. 

Try this:

(defun double ()       
  "Search for double words."
  (interactive)
  (re-search-forward "\\(\\b[a-z]+\\b\\)\\W+\\b\\1\\b"))
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Warren F. Kuhfeld          Statistical R & D      (919) 677-8000 x7922
saswfk@unx.sas.com         SAS Institute Inc.     (919) 677-8123 (Fax)
                           Cary, NC 27513-2414
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: jxu@black.clarku.edu (The Batman!!)
Subject: Could anyone send me a .emacs file?
Organization: Clark University (Worcester, MA)
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:53:14 GMT

I just wonder if anyone can send me a .emacs file.  I will greatly
appreciate. 

my E-mail address is "jxu@black.clarku.edu"

Thanks in advances.
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jian Xu                                  Finger "jxu@black.clarku.edu"
School Address:                          Home Address:
Clark University                         211 Dewey Street
From: klehr@creamer.bellcore (Thomas J. Klehr)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Name for an xemacs window?
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:33:48 GMT
Reply-To: klehr@bae.bellcore.com (Thomas J. Klehr)
Organization: /u/klehr/.organization

In article <1992Sep4.200025.26787@walter.bellcore.com> snk@fork.bae.bellcore.com (Samuel Kamens) writes:

   Hi,

   When I bring up emacs as its own X window (we call it xemacs around
   here), I get a name of "xemacs@fork" (fork is my machine) for the
   window.

   I'd like to change that to be something else, like "MAIL".

   Does anyone know how to do this?

   Thanks,

   Sam

   -- 
   Sam Kamens					Bell Communications Research
   snk@bae.bellcore.com				Phone: (908) 699-7509
   444 Hoes Lane  Room RRC 1D-210
   Piscataway, NJ 08854

Give the following options when you start emacs:

-wn window-title
-in icon-title

Tom
--
_______________________________________________________________________________

Thomas J. Klehr                             Email: klehr@bae.bellcore.com
Bellcore  (RRC 4A-732)                      Phone: (908) 699-7095
444 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
From: kevin@sherman.pas.rochester.edu (kevin mcfadden)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: .emacs file
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:11:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester

A couple weeks ago, someone posted a two post .emacs, .jove list of commands.
I thought I had saved it but when I looked for it it was not in ../News!
If anyone has a copy of this I would appreciate it if they could email me
it.

Thanks,
kevin
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: jwp20406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Palmer)
Subject: Emacs under OS/2 installation question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:06:43 GMT

I have a quick question.  I have recently attempted to install
gnuemacs on an hpfs drive under OS/2.  Everything seemed to go well, 
but now when I try to ececute the dumped emacs, I get the following
error message:

Invalid syscall function code: 7F 1E


Anybody have any idea what this means or what I could be doing wrong?

Thanks!


Jeffrey Palmer                palmer@cs.uiuc.edu
------------------------------------------------
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
				- e. e. cummings
-- 
Jeffrey Palmer                palmer@cs.uiuc.edu
------------------------------------------------
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
From: hrzic@cgi.com (Mark Hrzic)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: GNU Emacs on Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:13:19 GMT

I have been attempting to build and install GNU Emacs V18.58 on a 486 PC
running Interactive UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.  The system is running
X11 with Motif, and is also running TCP/IP.  I have modified the config.h
file in emacs $BUILD/src directory to include s-isc2-2.h and m-intel386.h 
header files.  I can successfully build and install Emacs using "make install";
however, when I attempt to run Emacs, the Emacs screen appears and immediately
thereafter, the following error message appears in the command line:

	Stack underflow in byte code (byte compiler bug) pc = 49937

I can view files using Emacs, but I cannot edit and save them.

I am sending this message to solicit assistance in getting GNU Emacs 
successfully up and running on this PC.  Has anyone reading this message 
installed GNU Emacs on a system running an Interactive UNIX operating
system (preferably release 3.2), and if so, could you possibly provide me 
with some details about what files you needed to modify to get Emacs 
successfully up and running?  Any assistance in this matter will be very 
much appreciated.

Thank you.

Mark Hrzic
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: keithh@bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan)
Subject: Re: TAB characters (was Re: Need help with TABith TABS)
Keywords: emacs, TABS, PASCAL
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:47:34 GMT

In article <BuCHyu.GzG.1@cs.cmu.edu> rudis+@cs.cmu.edu (Rujith S DeSilva) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.002725.562@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> keithh@bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan)
>writes:
>>I am just learning emacs now but as soon as my proficiency picks
>>up a bit here is what I am going to do:
>>o set tab-width to whatever I prefer.
>>o hook into reading in a file a function which automatically
>>  tabifies the file.  This means assuming that the file was
>>  written with a tabstop of eight.
>>o hook into writing out a file (write-file-hooks) a function 
>>  which, depending on the type of file, either:
>>  o untabifies the file completely or
>>  o untabifies the file, resets the tab-width to eight, and
>>    then tabifies the file again.
>>
>>And then I'll never have to worry about tab-widths again!
>
>Does this mean that you want saved files to have TAB characters, but want
>spaces while editing?  If so, why bother to have TABs at all?

No, I want tab characters in my files so that hitting hitting tab
and then backspace (rubout) results in no change.  Editors which
convert tabs to spaces are frustrating because the backspace only
rubs out the final space, instead of all the spaces used to
replace the tab.

Regards,
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Subject: c++ mode editing?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 00:16:37 GMT
Organization: Watch the Skies
Distribution: gnu

looking for c++ mode support.
-- 
terry
	tnt@netcom.com
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:07:10 EDT
From: <MGREENE@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: emacs to brief

Could anybody forward a file containing a set of key bindings which
would make emacs look like brief (on MS-DOS).  Emacs is running
on  a Sparcstation under SunOS 4.1.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: wmperry@cherry.ucs.indiana.edu (William M. Perry)
Subject: Re: RMAIL questions
Organization: Computer Science Student, Indiana University
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:33:50

>There are a couple of default behaviors I would like to add or modify:

>(1) I would like to have Re: at the beginning of my subject field
>    when replying to a message, as is the convention.

   I'm pretty sure this is the default.

>(2) I would like to be able to reply to just the sender.

   It is fairly simple to do this.  I wrote a function rmail-new-reply
that yanks the message you are replying to, inserts '>' at the
beginning of each line, and just replies to the sender.  Set it up
using: (define-key rmail-mode-map "r" 'rmail-new-reply) in your
rmail-mode-hook.  Here is the function:

(defun rmail-new-reply ()
  (interactive)
  (rmail-reply 1)  ;;; this tells it to just reply to the sender
  (mail-yank-original 0) ;;; yank in old message, indentation 0
  (goto-char 1) ;; go to beginning of message
  (re-search-forward mail-header-separator nil t) ;;; go past headers
  (replace-regexp "^" ">")) ;;; put a '>' at the start of each line

>Thanks,
>Ken

hope this is what you wanted...
	-Bill
-- 
William M. Perry          / 'When you know a thing, to hold that you know it;
wmperry@ucs.indiana.edu  / and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you
Phone: (812) 336 - 3071 / do not know it; this is knowlege.' - Confucius
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: mac@bnr.ca (Michael Campbell)
Subject: Re: Need help with TABith TABS & Is there a PASCAL Mode?
Keywords: emacs, TABS, PASCAL
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 17:16:48 GMT

Baji (and anyone else interested), 

To force emacs to do indentation with spaces only, I have the
following in my .emacs:

  (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)

This seems to do the trick. See GNU Emacs "bible" by Richard
Stallman, for Version 18, page 111 (Section 19.3 - Tabs vs. 
Spaces).

Sorry, can't help on the Pascal mode, but other posters have 
suggested that the Modula-2 mode may help.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help