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From: fukaya@tkov60.enet.dec.com (Shigeru Fukaya)
Subject: Re: help under VMS emacs
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. Japan, Tokyo
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 01:12:43 GMT

    Try the following sequence, first!

        $ set default emacs_library:[etc]
        $ purge doc-18.57
        $ rename doc-18.57 .sav         ! for safe
        $ copy doc. doc-18.57;14

    If it's OK, then delete doc-18.sav;.
From: segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Emacs and Distibuted Computing.
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:00:25 GMT
Organization: UMIST

I'm an emacs novice, but I can hack a bit of LISP when necessary.

My problem is this:

At UMIST we have different machines for different things:
Xterminals, Mail Servers, News Servers, Big Processors etc. 
And I have an account on each.

What I want to be able to do is to set up ONE emacs on ONE machine
which loads and saves files from ANY machine, and handles mail/News.
How on earth do I go about doing this?

This will also help me to justify emacs to some sceptics here who
prefer such abberrations as xedit and vi. (And also my insistence
on a _REAL_ VT100).

I'm happy to RTFM, if someone will tell me which FM and which
FSection.

Many Thanks in advance


Simon Read
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: mac@crchh570.bnr.ca (Michael Campbell)
Subject: Rebinding the Meta Key
Keywords: Meta Binding
Reply-To: mac@crchh570.BNR.CA (Michael Campbell)
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Richardson
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:43:14 GMT

I have an HP 9000/360, running HP-UX 7.05. My keyboard has an <Extend Char>
key, which I would like to use as the Meta key, rather than the current 
default, which is <ESC>. This key meets the necessary criterion for the 
Meta key, as it operates successfully in this capacity when I am running
the Athena text widget (XRN's default POST editor is this widget). 

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!

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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: johndew@watson.ibm.com (John Dewysocki)
Subject: Missing subject header
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 16:35:47 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 While using emacs interactively with Lucid Common Lisp, I keep running into the
following problem:

        For no reason that I can figure, emacs does not let me do some
commands - including control X O.  When I try to use these commands, I
get the error "Wrong type argument: integerp, nil".

I've tried hitting control G, control c control c, but the only way to get
out of it seems to exit lisp and then reenter it and reload my program.

Is there some other way to deal with this error message?
 
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From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
Subject: Crashing emacs:
Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 09:37:23 GMT

You can't be running Emacs 18.59 because I haven't released it yet.
If your Emacs says it is 18.59, someone must have modified it.

As for how to find out why the crashes, you have to debug the core dump.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
Subject: Emacs bugs
Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:07:40 GMT

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

It is not necessary for the users to wonder about this.
If they have not been told specifically to do otherwise,
they should send their bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs.
They should say which version they are using.
Then whoever maintains it can read bug-gnu-emacs.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: stevew@helios.unl.edu (Steve Wu)
Subject: auc-tex TeX-buffer problem.
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date:  1 Sep 92 21:30:48 GMT

  Last time I post for auc-tex TeX-buffer problem--getting messages
like "Emergency stop ..." I got somebody reply this problem, but I
think I lost that mail. Could someone repost the answer?

  Thanks.

  steve
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From: warren.dodge@tek.com (Warren Dodge)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: ispell 3.0 el file
Keywords: ispell.el 3.0
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:35:33 GMT
Reply-To: warren.dodge@tek.com
Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.,  Beaverton, OR


-- 

I installed ispell 3.0 and like the spelling part of it. However, I
notice the placement of the cursor when done and also where it starts
looking for a word to spell has changed since the 2.0 release.

Several people who are using 3.0 want to go back to 2.0 because of
this "new" behavior.

I believe this group posted a "better" ispell.el file. I just passed
it by at the time. Can someone let me know where to get it.

Thanks in advance.

                                       Warren L. Dodge

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From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: How do I subvert a function?
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:01:46 GMT

I'd like to be able to replace an elisp function with one I've written
myself while keeping hold of the original.

The reason for this is that I want to modify the function's behaviour
slightly without upsetting the other Emacs users on my site and without
the bother of having a private copy of the entire .el file.

I tried doing this:-

;; original.el

...

(defun original ()
  ...)



;; subvert.el

(fset 'old-original 'original)

(defun original ()
  (old-original)
  ;; modify behaviour here
  ...)


The trouble is that (defun original ()...) also affects the function
definition of `old-original', presumably because both symbols are
pointing to the same definition cell, and it is the cell rather than the
pointer that gets hacked by defun.

Needless to say, this makes my function crawl up the stack at an
alarming rate!

So, how do I save a function definition.  Is there a `purecopy' for
functions?
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Phone: +44 908 284198 (direct) or +44 908 585858 ext 4198
These opinions are mine: others available on request.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: delacour@waxwing.parc.xerox.com (Vincent Delacour)
Subject: switch-to-buffer : how to require an existing buffer ??
Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:50:23



Hi, 

Does somebody know the right way to have switch-to-buffer and 
switch-to-buffer-other-window require an existing buffer ? 

Thanks in advance, 

	Vincent

ps: this is what I've tried. This works superfiocially, but the
default buffer proposed by switch-to-buffer is now almost always the
current buffer, which is not really satisfactory. In fact, both the
solution and the reason why the simple function below does not work
would interest me. Thanks again.

(defun my-switch-to-buffer (bu)
   ;;  require an existing buffer
   (interactive "bSwitch to buffer: ") 
   (switch-to-buffer bu t))
From: mack@deci.cs.umn.edu (Dan Mack)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Emacs and Distibuted Computing.
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:14:29 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In <1992Aug27.120025.12576@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read) writes:

>I'm an emacs novice, but I can hack a bit of LISP when necessary.

>My problem is this:

>At UMIST we have different machines for different things:
>Xterminals, Mail Servers, News Servers, Big Processors etc. 
>And I have an account on each.

>What I want to be able to do is to set up ONE emacs on ONE machine
>which loads and saves files from ANY machine, and handles mail/News.
>How on earth do I go about doing this?

>This will also help me to justify emacs to some sceptics here who
>prefer such abberrations as xedit and vi. (And also my insistence
>on a _REAL_ VT100).

>I'm happy to RTFM, if someone will tell me which FM and which
>FSection.

>Many Thanks in advance


>Simon Read
>--------------
>Simon.Read@umist.ac.uk

I'd like this functionality as well.  It's  seems like like a waste of
CPU/IO  time to start up a new  emacs process on a remote host when  I
have a perfectly idle one running on my workstation.

It would nice if emacs 19 had a new and improved 'emacsclient' program
that could take a host and/or port argument.  That way you could put
something like this in your .cshrc file:

	alias vi 'emacsclient -h my.local.work.station \!*'     :^)

And whenenver you edited on a remote machine, the text would be sent
via tcp to the emacs process on your local workstation or wherever.

It looks like  the place to start would be in emacsclient.c but I just
don't have the  time.  Has anyone else written anything like this  and
like to share it?

Dan
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: chetal@is.morgan.com (Pradeep Chetal)
Subject: Re: Help: unlock an RCS file?
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:13:00 GMT

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

   This is probably caused by an open lock on the RCS file, left when the
   system crashed. How can I remove this lock, to get back to the point
   where I can check my file in?

Look for a ",my.file" (COMMA file) & remove it. 

In addition, has anyone made changes to rcs 5.6 so that when i do an
	rcs -u
it will also change the mode of the file, discard the changes, and do
a 'co'. This is like doing 'rcs -u' from within Emacs using the rcs.el 
package. 

Thanks,

/Pradeep
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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: zfs60@cas.org ()
Subject: Code for sun keyboard -- how can i find out?
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:07:14 GMT

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

Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: vpcsc4@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Emmett McLean)
Subject: Using st.el to run smalltalk80 
Organization: San Francisco State University
Distribution: NA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 02:26:07 GMT

I want to take advantage of the power of
emacs and interactively run smalltalk80 with
st.el .  I don't use emacs all the time, so to make
things easy I am putting st.el (and st-changelog.el)
directly into my .emacs file.  Unfortunately, when
typing " ESC-X mst-mode " the interactive session 
is not started, eventhough the highlighted buffer 
window says it is "Starting Smalltalk". 

I have an alias in my .cshrc file with
the path to my instructors account .  Placing mst 
in my home directory doesn't help or change things.

What do I need to do, or do differently, to invoke mst
and still use st.el ?

Thanks.

Emmett vpcsc4@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
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From: konkar@sunrise.stanford.edu (Ranjit Konkar)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,gnu.emacs.sources
Subject: Re: Wanted: el code for highlighting region
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:59:22 GMT
Reply-To: Ranjit Konkar <konkar@sunrise.stanford.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: DSG, Stanford University

In article <KONKAR.92Aug24111100@sunrise.stanford.edu> konkar@sunrise.stanford.edu (Ranjit Konkar) writes:

   Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Path: leland.Stanford.EDU!leland!konkar
   From: konkar@sunrise.stanford.edu (Ranjit Konkar)
   Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
   Reply-To: Ranjit Konkar <konkar@sunrise.stanford.edu>
   Organization: DSG, Stanford University
   Distribution: usa
   Date: 24 Aug 92 11:11:00
   Lines: 6

   I am sure this must have been addressed umpteen times before, but I am
   new to this newsgroup, so pl pardon this if it is a repetition. Does
   anyone have code to hightlight region in gnu emacs? If so could s/he
   post it or mail it to me? Thanks.

   Ranjit

I should add that I meant highlighting in the form of inverse video.

Ranjit
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: mattw@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Matthew Watson)
Subject: Re: c++-mode
Organization: Customised Software Solutions Centres, AOTC
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:40:48 GMT

jlph7@fel.tno.nl (Joost van Lawick van Pabst) writes:

>I have byte-compiled the c++-mode.el file and put it in
>/usr/local/gnu/emacs/lisp. I thought I could now call the 
>mode (M-x c++-mode) but it does not work. Can anybody tell
>me what I did wrong?

Put this line in your ~/.emacs file:
(autoload 'c++-mode "c++-mode" nil t)

Check out the doco for autoload
Cheers
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From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,gnu.emacs.gnus,gnu.emacs.vm.info,comp.emacs
Subject: Creating a *.Z file from scratch
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:01:22 GMT
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help
Distribution: gnu
Organization: LAAS-CNRS France

Under GNUS or VM, or even elsewhere, crypt.el works *very* nicely when
you save to compressed files, uncompressing the data in the buffer and
then recompressing before writing the data out!

Has anyone patched crypt to intercept this when foo.Z does *not*
exist.  Possibly some of the other writing routines might also have to
be patched.  For the moment the workaround is to save under GNUS or
VM, and then switch to the saved buffer and execute `compress-mode'!

Has anyone automated this process?

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: southern@sunny.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Lawrence Buja)
Subject: Re: Code for sun keyboard -- how can i find out?
Reply-To: southern@ncar.ucar.edu
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:34:56 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
>

   (defun see-chars ()
      "Displays characters typed, terminated by a 3-second timeout. (tools.el)"
      (interactive)
      (let ((chars "")
            (inhibit-quit t))
        (message "Enter characters, terminated by 3-second timeout.")
        (while (not (sit-for 3))
          (setq chars (concat chars (list (read-char)))
                quit-flag nil))         ; quit-flag maybe set by C-g
        (describe-key chars)
        (message "Characters entered: %s" (key-description chars))))


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From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
Subject: function key bindings for Falco terminal?
Organization: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:08:10 GMT

Hi! Does anyone out there use emacs on a Falco terminal? Nad, if so,
could you send me the key bindings you use for the function keys?

				Thanks
					Ed
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From: jlewis@cse.ogi.edu (Jeff Lewis)
Subject: Re: emacs to vi and back in evi
Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:42:00 GMT

> 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.

Sure... to get into evi, `M-x evi', to get out, use `Q'.  If you use it a lot,
you'll probably want to bind `evi' to something.

If you're not familar with Evi, you may want to try it out.  You can find
a copy in the elisp archive as modes/evi.el.Z.  Alternately, the most
up-to-date copy can be gotten via e-mail: send a message to
mail-server@brandx.rain.com containing:
    send evi.el
    end
alternately, you can ask for evi.el.Z.uu, if you want a compressed and
uuencoded copy.

--Jeff
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From: leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner 311/? x?)
Subject: Reading info on EMACS
Organization: Xerox
Reply-To: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:42:02 PDT
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X-Cc: leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com



I just got EMACS up and running.  I use vi primarily now, but I want to read texinfo
documentation interactively.  

I can do what I want if I edit the dir file in info...is there a simple way?

Is there a way to just go: read this info file...

Also some of the tools have .info extensions, while the emacs files don't...what's a good
way...

It seems from just doing a few things very worthwhile.

Marty    leisner.henr801c@xerox.com 
          Member of the League for Programming Freedom 
 	Give me source or waste my time..
From: "rick sheridan" <rick.sheridan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: convert dos filename
Date: 23 Aug 92 21:19:28 EST
Reply-To: "rick sheridan" <rick.sheridan@channel1.com>
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

I'm using Demacs and am looking for a short elisp routine that will
convert a DOS filename from the form

        c:\program\test\pgm1.cpp

to the form

        c:/program/test/pgm1.cpp

In other words, replace `\' with `/'.  This is probably pretty simple
but I'm learning elisp as I'm trying to modify the .el file.  I have the
routine to grab the filename, but must convert it before returning it to
the calling function.

I can't do ftp so can't look in any standard elisp archives.

TIA

--Rick.
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From: jwarring@violet.srg (Jeff Warrington)
Subject: redefining keys --> Wrong type argument: commandp
Organization: ARINC Research
Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:18:41

I seem to be having trouble binding keys to my own functions.  I keep
getting that error (mentioned in the Subject-line) followed by the
name of the "function" I wrote.

I can't find the answer anywhere (info-mode,example el files,printed manual)
Here what my .emacs file looks like...

...
(defun my-func()
"Something special"
	(other-window)
	(rmail-get-new-mail)
	(rmail-summary))

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

Any/All help appreciated.
Jeff Warrington

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From: "rick sheridan" <rick.sheridan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: regexp help
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:49:32 EST
Reply-To: "rick sheridan" <rick.sheridan@channel1.com>
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

I'm new at regexp and need to know if this in an elisp program

        "\\(\\(Error\\|Warning\\) [^ ]+ [0-9]+: [ -~]+\\)"

correctly describes a line such as this (Warning can occur instead of
Error)

        Error c:\program\cpp\file1.cpp 12: Invalid expression

TIA

--Rick.
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