Re: Emacspeak 11.0 on xemacs 21.2.27

TVR> 2) The xemacs compiler appears to complain incorrectly TVR> sometimes about special variables --this is with TVR> (require 'cl) and TVR> (declare (special ...)) TVR> inside function bodies. I guess I'm the byte compiler maintainer, so I should add these things. They would be useful to have anyways, for other packages. What we do in XEmacs is simply use (defvar special-var). That form doesn't have to be at top-level. Emacs Lisp doesn't really have non-special vars anyways. TVR> It also appears to have problems the cl (declaim ...) TVR> construct --it continues to produce the warning that that TVR> declaration is supposed to suppress. TVR> --need to create a minimal .el file that demonstrates this. Maybe I should try to byte-compile emacspeak. I should get your latest development version. TVR> 3) I guess inhibit-point-motion-hooks got dropped in xemacs. TVR> Not that I care --emacspeak doesn't use this -however in the TVR> case of FSF emacs TVR> emacspeak carefully sets this variable at specific times in TVR> order to avoid emacs doing unexpected things. TVR> I've worked around it for now by introducing an inline TVR> function that I call rather than directly referring to TVR> variable inhibit-point-motion-hooks TVR> --is there more standard fsf-compat way of doing this? TVR> 4) Bill (wmperry)-- emacspeak-w3 throws a strange warning TVR> when loaded TVR> --the error is being thrown by the bytecompiler saying TVR> invalid bytecode --this is after comiling all emacspeak TVR> files with xemacs. TVR> --the problem appears to be in the section of the code where TVR> we insert the emacspeak help into the widgets via symbol TVR> emacspeak-help I've rewritten the bytecode loader, and there are now more run-time sanity checks on bytecode. There might be a bug in my code, or in your code. One way to get such an error is to do: (setq t 1) Unfortunately, my time is currently overcommitted to actually do much work on emacspeak itself. But I'll help to make emacspeak work with XEmacs. Martin