HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to do a (force-mode-line-update) and some other fun after
each time a menu command is executed.  Is there a hook to do it?


Hallvard
From: beust@rhea.inria.fr (Cedric Beust)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Re: Trying to write x-find-file.
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:17:56 GMT
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France

In article <9207120216.AA00923@sergei.mitre.org>, bcotton@sergei.mitre.org (Robert T. Cotton) writes:

>I am a novice elisp hacker at best, and am trying to figure out how to
>write two functions, x-find-file, and x-find-buffer.  Doing the
>obivous, find file/buffer in another screen (creating if necessary).
>Poking around the NEWS file and the elisp code I cannot figure out
>what needs to be done.  I have looked at display-buffer,
>get-screen-for-buffer, and x-create-screen but to no avail.
>Could someone point me in the right direction?
>


	Here it is :

(defun x-find-file (filename)
  "Does find file in new X Window"
  (interactive "FFind file other screen: ")
  (select-screen (x-create-screen nil))
  (switch-to-buffer (find-file-noselect filename)))

(defun x-switch-to-buffer (filename)
  "Does switch to buffer in new X Window"
  (interactive "BSwitch to buffer other screen: ")
  (select-screen (x-create-screen nil))
  (switch-to-buffer filename))


--
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From: yury@start.Eng.Sun.COM (Yury Kamen)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: lhilight.el
Date: 27 Jul 1992 18:31:38 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: yury@start.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: start

In an article posted recently in this group I found a reference
to a lhilit Package. I did not find it in my distribution, so where can 
I find it (and other contributed stuff).

Thanks a lot for your help!

Yury Kamen
From: colas@bagheera.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Re: RPC protocols in LEmacs 19
Keywords: RPC
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:49:27 GMT
Organization: Koala Project, Bull Research France

In article <4028@seti.UUCP>, murthy@margaux.inria.fr (Chet Murthy) writes:
|> I have been thinking about writing some RPC code, so that emacs can
|> act as an RPC/XDR server/client. 

in the same vein, having a way to send commands to lemacs via an x property
(just like the EPOCH_EXECUTE property of epoch) would be VERY nice, and trivial
to implement...

-- 
Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research Koala proj. Wool&Gwm Architect
Pho:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.93 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE.
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 15:12:24 MDT
From: Chris McClenaghan <mcclen@advtech.uswest.com>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up those ClariNet newsgroups
References: <MCGRANT.92Jul26200520@isl.stanford.edu>
I would like a copy of the original gnus-lucid.el file. Is it
available via anon-ftp or could someone mail it to me?

Chris McClenaghan    mcclen@uswest.com

Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
Subject: Lemacs 19.2 sources or binaries for DEC stations...
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:31:39 GMT

Does anyone have source code or binaries for lemacs 19.2 that compiled
on a DEC station?

I'm pretty sure someone has done it before, and it would save me
(and probably a lot of other people) a lot of hassle to have
it.

Scott



Xref: sparky alt.lucid-emacs.help:140 alt.lucid-emacs.bug:59
From: bosch@loria.fr (Guido Bosch)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help,alt.lucid-emacs.bug
Subject: Re: patches for Hyperbole to run on lemacs19.2
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:05:26 GMT
Reply-To: Guido BOSCH <bosch@loria.fr>
Followup-To: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Organization: INRIA-Lorraine / CRIN, Nancy, France
In-reply-to: JSPARKES%BNR.CA@lucid.com's message of 24 Jul 92 19:24:00 GMT

In article <9207241926.AA02186@gateway.bnr.ca> JSPARKES%BNR.CA@lucid.com (J.D.) writes:

 >   Hi, I've made Hyperbole work under Lucid emacs 19.2, and I'd like some
 >   brave beta testers. :-). 
 >   ...
 >
 >   Anyway, please try these patches and let me know if you have any problems.

The function `hypb:function-symbol-replace' in `hypb.el' does not work
with the Lucid Emacs byte compiled code. I noticed that when I started
Gnus with Hyperbole loaded:

Signalling: (wrong-type-argument listp #<byte-code [nil "... 
  mapcar(#<byte-code [(elt) "....
  hypb:function-symbol-replace(gnus-inews-article widen hmail:msg-narrow)
  byte-code("...
  Gnus-init()
  funcall(Gnus-init)
  mapcar(funcall (bbdb-insinuate-gnus (lambda nil (load-file ...)) Gnus-init))
  run-hooks(gnus-Startup-hook)
  byte-code("...
  gnus(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus)

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From: murthy@margaux.inria.fr (Chet Murthy)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: RPC protocols in LEmacs 19
Keywords: RPC
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:19:02 GMT
Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt,Le Chesnay, France.


First off, I have to thank the guys behind lemacs 19 - it's a really
nice piece of work.  And now ... my question about an extension ...

I have been thinking about writing some RPC code, so that emacs can
act as an RPC/XDR server/client.  Not too hard - I just need to link
the XDR library, and write some code to (un)marshal LISP objects.

The problem is, I want this to be compatible with the rest of Emacs -
which means, if I am transporting a large object, and it comes over in
chunks, I would like for the unmarshaling to happen "in the
background".  This is rather difficult to make work, without
coroutining, and the only other way I have thought of is to transport
records, store the record until complete, and then unmarshal it all at
once.

Which incurs the allocation cost of the buffer/string list.  Does
anybody out there have a better idea?  Or, even better, has anybody
implemented this?

Thanks in advance,
--chet--
Well I have been following the progress of lemacs since the day it came
out, and being an avid epoch addict I was excited to see (hopefully)
something better come along.  But the only thing that was really holding
me back from switching was source code hilightining.  Thanks to Mike Scheidler
for his hilit package I have now made the transition.  

I am a novice elisp hacker at best, and am trying to figure out how to
write two functions, x-find-file, and x-find-buffer.  Doing the
obivous, find file/buffer in another screen (creating if necessary).
Poking around the NEWS file and the elisp code I cannot figure out
what needs to be done.  I have looked at display-buffer,
get-screen-for-buffer, and x-create-screen but to no avail.
Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks for your time,
Bob Cotton
bcotton@cyclone.mitre.org

P.S.  (Guys at Lucid, I like what I see!!)
From: mt00@eurotherm.co.uk (Martin Tomes)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Interactive UNIX version 3.0
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:12:38 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Eurotherm Limited

Has anyone compiled Lucid Emacs on Interactive UNIX?  Or any 386 AT&T
3.2 type UNIX?  If you have *please mail me* I will be on holiday for
a while and I expire alt groups fast.

What I really want to know is it it worth me tying up the trailblazer
for hours to get it when I don't have a vast amount of time to devote
to getting it to compile.

Thanks
-- 
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UUCP:     {uknet,uunet}!etherm!mtomes
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:29:46 PDT
From: eb%watergate@lucid.com (Eric Benson)
Subject: Re: Change in point movement behavior
	<MCGRANT.92Jul27162250@isl.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: eb@lucid.com
In Emacs 18 the cursor keys actually send the characters C-n and C-p
to Emacs.  In lemacs they are the X keysyms 'up and 'down.  We had
originally bound these keys to the commands previous-line and
next-line, but that doesn't work well for modes with local bindings
for C-n and C-p, since people usually expect the cursor keys to do
exactly the same thing as C-b, C-f, C-p and C-n, regardless of what
those keys are bound to.  So, we changed the cursor key bindings to be
keyboard macros containing exactly those characters instead.  This
works fine, except that next-line and previous-line check the variable
last-command to decide if it should keep the goal column at the same
place, and apparently the keyboard macro was causing this to fail.
However, it turns out that Emacs 18 has this extra special hack to
make keyboard macros containing exactly one character set last-command
to the command to which the character is bound.  Lemacs didn't have
this hack, so I added it.  It will appear in 19.3, but if you want it
now, in command_loop_1 in keyboard.c, change the line

  Vlast_command = Qt;

to

  if (!(!NILP(Vexecuting_macro) &&
	((XTYPE (Vexecuting_macro) == Lisp_String &&
	  XSTRING (Vexecuting_macro)->size == 1) ||
	 (XTYPE (Vexecuting_macro) == Lisp_Vector &&
	  XVECTOR (Vexecuting_macro)->size == 1))))
    Vlast_command = Qt;
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: wolfgg@mistral.vta.mw.tu-muenchen.de (Wolfgang Goettert)
Subject: Problems with Outline-Mode and hideif
Reply-To: wolfgg@mistral.vta.mw.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Lehrstuhl A fuer Verfahrenstechnik (Inst. Chem. Engng.), TU Munich, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:21:03 GMT

I just tried the hideif Package distributed with lemacs and experienced a 
problem I already had in Outline Mode: The hidden lines are still visible,
but in one long line separated by ^M. Any hints?

Bye 
Wolfgang
From: rouquett@Aig.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Nicolas Rouquette)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Ilisp: interrupting the inferior lisp process
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:53:40 GMT
Reply-To: rouquett@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
Followup-To: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Organization: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

THere seems to be a problem with Ilisp: both interrupt-subjob-ilisp 
and reset-ilisp don't affect the inferior ilisp process at all. 
Has anyone encountered this or is there a known workaround?

This occurs with lemacs 19.1 with binaries from lucid. We're running
both 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 and openwindows 3.0.

-- 
Nicolas Rouquette
Artificial Intelligence Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 525-3660
Pasadena, CA 91109

phone: (818) 306-6171
fax:   (818) 306-6912
Email: rouquett@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 08:42:03 IDT
From: danny@amil.co.il (Danny Bar-Dov)
Subject: Lucid 19.3
When is Lucid 19.3 supposed to come out ?

Lucid people keep saying this and that will be fixed
int it.

I currently use 19.1 out-of-the-box and intend to wait till 19.3
instead of going to 19.2. Should I ?

Please let us know what are your 19.3 release plans.

Danny.

--

---------------------
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Applied Materials (Israel)

Email:        danny@amil.co.il
Phone: office 972-3-499573
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Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 15:31:26 +0200
From: oaf%vingmed.no@lucid.com (Ole Asbjorn Fadum)
Subject: (no subject given)
Message-ID: <9207211331.AA08918@vingmed.no>
HELP

I've retrieved the lucid-emacs source but can't get it to
compile. I'm using a SPARCstation 1 SUNos 4.1.1 and gcc 1.40.
I've got a lot of complaints of definitions on strlength().
I've tracked this down to the gcc redifinition of size_t
from int to unsigned long.

I've also got an error in EmacsShell.c on macro XtIsWMShell(), 
this was fixed by include <X11/ObjectP.h>.

I've also pulled off the SUN4 binary but the only result
I've got is a complain about my DISPLAY variable.

I've tried 'host:0.0', 'unix:0.0', '0:0' but same result.

I'm using Openwindows 3.0, and MIT X11R5, and Tek XP20.

I'm not connected to this newsgroup, but could a kind
soul please give me a clue to get it working?


ole asbjorn fadum (oaf@vingmed.no)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: garath@engin.umich.edu (gilasun)
Subject: Re: Problems with Outline-Mode and hideif
Organization: University of Michigan
	<9207301002.AA26405@thalidomide.lucid>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:23:10 GMT


	Well, only because I can't get lemacs compiled yet.  

--
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Programmer                                         Bitnet: user7a4b@umichu
Computer Aided Engineering Network                  University of Michigan
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 09:06:11 PDT
From: berry@athos.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
Subject: Re: RPC protocols in LEmacs 19
	<4028@seti.UUCP>
	<9207311558.AA18617@scylla.lucid>
Reply-To: berry@pei.com
Colas Nahaboo wrote:
> in the same vein, having a way to send commands to lemacs via an x property
> (just like the EPOCH_EXECUTE property of epoch) would be VERY nice, and trivial
> to implement...

I dunno.  Maybe I'm an old fuddy-duddy, but knowing the level of
security in the X system, the idea of anyone being able to send
arbitrary commands to my emacs makes me very nervous.

  --berry

--
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"And there's more where that came from!"
From: bjdunlop@shamash.cdc.com (Bruce Dunlop)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Running lemacs remotely
Keywords: remote lemacs
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:50:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: shamash.45441
Distribution: usa
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN


I tried executing lemacs after doing an rlogin to a different username, but on the same node,
ie 'rlogin samenode -l different_username'.  I got an error message saying that lemacs only
runs under X.  Why can't I do this?  I am able to run other openwindows programs remotely, like
this.  I can even run on other nodes, if I set the DISPLAY environment variable to my node.

I am running on a Sun Sparc 2, and am running openwindows 3 under SunOS 4.1.1.

Jim Dahlberg			Computing Devices International
jad@verdin.gsd.cdc.com			a Ceridian company
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 09:39:52 +0200
From: Igor Metz <metz%iam.unibe.ch@lucid.com>
Subject: positioning the cursor
My config: Sun Sparc, SunOS 4.1.1, OW 3.0, Lucid 19.2 (the binary found on
labrea)

Is there ANY deterministic behaviour in the way the cursor is positioned in
v19.2?  

I have lots of problems with it when I use the mouse to paste (with 
the middle button) a highlighted text. 

I normally have 3 different situations:
1. the text is pasted to the right of the mouse position. Great! Exactly what
   I wanted.
2. the text is pasted at the end of the line above the cursor position. Not
   what I wanted!
3. some text on the left of the mouse position is highlighted and I have
   to highlight my text again. Not what I wanted!

Anybody else having this problem?

Igor Metz <metz@iam.unibe.ch>
Institut fuer Informatik und angew. Mathematik, Universitaet Bern, Switzerland.
Phone: (0041) 31 65 49 90  Fax: (0041) 31 65 39 65
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: kenb@dadd.ti.com (Ken Butler)
Subject: Re: CTRL-N does not keep columns corectly 
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:09:52 GMT

Just figured out the problem.  By default, the "out of the box" lemacs
binds the arrow keys on the right side of my Sun keyboard to keyboard
macros which generate ctrl-n, ctrl-p, etc.  I just put the following
commands in my startup and everything works the way it should:

(global-set-key   'up        'previous-line)
(global-set-key   'down      'next-line)
(global-set-key   'left      'backward-char)
(global-set-key   'right     'forward-char)

I hope that this helps.

Ken
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Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: chenis@estacy.two.dec.com (Kenneth J. Chenis)
Subject: Re: Lemacs 19.2 sources or binaries for DEC stations...
Reply-To: chenis@estacy.two.dec.com (Kenneth J. Chenis)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:09:31 GMT


Well, yes and no ... I do have the sources and binaries that compile
successfully on a DECstation, BUT, it doesn't seem to work ... every
time I invoke it, I get the following:

estacy> lemacs

-----Emacs: *scratch*              (Fundamental)----All-------------------------
Lisp Interaction)--All

This version of emacs only runs under X Windows (for now).
Check that your $DISPLAY environment variable is properly set.
estacy> 

If I start it directly (not via an xterm) I get nothing ... haven't had a
chance to debug the failure yet ... and it doesn't matter what DISPLAY
is set to ... I tried "0:0", "estacy:0", "estacy::0", "0::0", etc. etc.

--
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Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 16:13:40 -0400
From: Ryan Mulderig <ryan@eas.gatech.edu>
Subject: Lucid on RS6000 running Aix 3.2
I have tried and failed to bring it up. Notable problems:

in editfns.c 

- Sunix_sync not defined
- Sdefault_file_mode not defined

(got past by commenting out lines that caused failue - two of them)

in loading of temacs

- no entry point or export symbols found

this is where I crahed and burned

I would love any help to get past this problem.



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Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: swu@att.com (Chi-Sharn Wu)
Subject: create active region using right-mouse-button ?
Originator: news@cbnewsb.cb.att.com
Reply-To: swu@att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:32:58 GMT

Hi:

   Could anyone tell me how to write a function for lucid-emacs to do thing like
"select an active region using right-mouse-button", just like epoch and xterm did.

BTW, where can I find the contributed packages written for Lucid-emacs ?
I am interested in getting some packages like dired-x11.el, hilit.el in epoch.
Thanks for any help/

---

Chi-Sharn Wu
swu@probe.att.com
From: amouroux@imag.fr (Remy Amouroux)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Problem with Lucid Emacs 19.2
Keywords: selective-display, new menu, overlay-arrow, scroll with mouse
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:50:23 GMT
Reply-To: chabert@imag.fr (Annie CHABERT)
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France

I was working on emacs 18.58.4 and I started to look at Lucid Emacs 19.1
and 19.2 for its graphical facilities. But I have many troubles.
If someone could help me it will be fantastic.

There are different kind of questions :

        * Phylosophy :
        Which are the main differences between Lucid-emacs 19.1 and 19.2 ?
        What is new and/or debugged?

        * Compatibility with Emacs :

        1 - I noticed a problem with the selective-display process.
        Running lucid-emacs (19.1 or 19.2), I can change the value of the
        selective-display but nothing happened in my current buffer.
        Is there something wrong with my installation or ...?

        2 - Adding new menu :
        I would like to add new menu in the menubar with
        'add-menu-item. The result is the helps menu is moved near the Buffers
        menu and mine is at the right corner of the menu bar

        3 - overlay-arrow-string :
        I'd like to know if it's possible to change the default arrow by my own
 string . This was allowed in Emacs.
        And is it possible to have many arrows (or "marks") at the same time ?
        How can I do it ?

	4 - I have seen the word scrollbar in mouse.el : what about ??
	Anyway, i try to scroll with mouse on the modeline, Nothing is binding.
	What I have to do to make it work ?

Hope to have answers soon. Thank you

A.Chabert
chabert@imag.fr (Annie CHABERT)
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Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:18:00 PDT
X-Windows: More than enough rope.
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
Subject: Re: Finding highlit extent
References: <AeRNfX___5g8A60Bls@cs.city.ac.uk>
> I've got several areas with highlight extents on them.  The user can
> click button3 to pull up a popup menu.  Some options on that menu would
> like to operate on the data found in the currently highlit extent.  But
> how do you find this?

If you use (interactive "e") then you are passed the event object that
invoked this command.  Then you can use `event-point' on that to get the
buffer position at which the click occurred.  You can find the topmost
extent at a point with the `extent-at' function.

In 19.2 there is no way to find the face of an extent, but that is fixed
in 19.3 (real soon now...)

	-- Jamie
From: smiley@akasha.eng.hou.compaq.com (Colin Smiley)
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: lemacs and the minibuffer...
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:08:05 GMT
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation


Simple question...

Does lemacs-19.2 handle a separate minibuffer?  This is one of the
major things which is keeping me from using it...

Thanks,

Colin


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Disclaimer:  Any opinons expressed here do not reflect the opinions of
Compaq Computer Corp.  They make computers.  I make noise.
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
From: ramu@cadsun.corp.mot.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 16:50:45 CDT
Subject: using multiple fonts within the same buffer
I am currently using Emacs version 18.55. 

I have a related question about Emacs.  I wish to use multiple fonts
within a single buffer (like a Symbolics).  For example, all the
comments in a Lisp program could be in "italic" font while all the 
code could be in "roman" font.  

Does Lucid emacs support this? 

If so, how can I enhance my Emacs to use Lucid Emacs? 

Thanks,

--Ramu Iyer

Email: ramu@cadsun.corp.mot.com
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
Subject: Re: CTRL-N does not keep columns corectly 
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:59:31 -0400
From: Todd_Kaufmann@JUNIN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU
> In Lucid Emacs, the point is always positioned at the last N, so if initial
> N was 100, and next line has only 90 columns, at the third line it will try
> to go to col. 90. If the line is shorter, it will got to EOL. So N is always
> getting the last position and decreasing. When you hit an empty line, N := 0
> and that's it.
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature (:-) ? IMHO, it's annoying.

Never seen this.

Are you loading some customized version of C-n?  What does C-h c C-n say?

Does it happen when you start with no .emacs ("lemacs -q") ?

Have you been hitting set-goal-column (C-x C-n)?  If so, use C-u C-x C-n
to unset it, and see if problem persists.

 -todd