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Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.6 is released 27 years

Justin Sheehy

SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: > Heh. O.K. "Naming Czar", please come up with a new name for XEmacs > that doesn't suck[1] and the developers will accept. Please? Pretty > please? :-) Indeed. Recently, one of the lower-level sysadmins at a place I know was listing and describing all of the software available in their distributed-filesystem-mounted software repository. It took some effort to convince said person that "XEmacs" should not have a description string of "X Window interface to Emacs". *sigh* -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.

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Re: Indirect buffers followup 27 years

Karl M. Hegbloom

Hey, Thanks, Hrvoje! This will be great for goofing with Noah S. Friedman's `czscm.el' (cheezy scheme) scheme interpreter written in emacs lisp, or for folks doing javascript in html pages. Fun.

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Re: source-directory is no more 27 years

Michael Sperber

>>>>> "acs" == Vin Shelton <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu> writes: acs> I see that starting with b54, the variable source-directory has been acs> removed. I used to use it to find the origin of the XEmacs source acs> tree, more specifically, the place I could find the TAGS file. The problem was that it was getting set to the wrong value in some setups. (Notably, in mine.) acs> I found this generally useful when I was browsing either my own acs> customizations or the XEmacs source. What follows is how I used to do acs> this; I'm sure there's another way to do this - can anyone offer acs> any suggestions? It seems to me the Right Way to do this is to just set `source-directory' in your .emacs. The situation that the user of XEmacs has access to the sources it was compiled it is too rare, I think, to make special provisions to cater to it. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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Re: 28 bit ought to be enough for anyone. 27 years

Leonard Blanks

>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes: sb> Go for it. Crypto stuffs are considered munitions by current USG sb> laws, but if the President doesn't have to abide by the law, sb> neither do we. Let's get this stuff in ASAP and make the world a sb> better place. Geez ... I never realised that fellatio was restricted as weaponry under ITAR. Live and learn ;-) -- Len Anyone who maintains absolute standards of Good and Evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of Good and Evil usually *is* the maniac with the revolver. -- Tom Robbins

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`quasi-transformer.el': auto-convert backquote syntax 27 years

Karl M. Hegbloom

Somewhat tested; let me know if anything's wrong with it. :-) Did I miss anything obvious?

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Re: Seppuku and x_IO_error_handler() 27 years

Hrvoje Niksic

"Mauro Condarelli" <MC5686(a)mclink.it> writes: > > >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes: > > > > Hrvoje> Not if you want to support Unices other than Linux. > > > > I don't. > If we;re going to take that stance we will have a lot less > problems... and a lot less users. Please be careful with the citations. I wrote the first sentence, but Karl wrote the followup. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Those who like sausages, laws, and standards are well advised not to learn how they are made.

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Re: Seppuku and x_IO_error_handler() 27 years

Karl M. Hegbloom

>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes: Hrvoje> Not if you want to support Unices other than Linux. I don't.

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Indirect buffers are working! 27 years

Hrvoje Niksic

I've got them. Will post patch to xemacs-patches ASAP. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Lord protects children and fools... But don't push it.

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Rare problems that can happen with dynamic scope. 27 years

Karl M. Hegbloom

This is from "ilisp/comint-ipc.el": ;;; (defun comint-prompt-status (old line &optional equal) "Called by comint-process filter with OLD and LINE, return 'error if LINE is an error, T if it is a prompt as determined by `comint-prompt-regexp' or nil otherwise. Also set the status appropriately by funcalling `comint-update-status'. If specified EQUAL will be called with old and line and should return T if line is not an error. OLD will be nil for the first prompt." (if (string-match comint-prompt-regexp line) (let ((error (or (if equal (funcall equal old line) (or (null old) (string-equal old line))) 'error))) (funcall comint-update-status (if (eq error 'error) error 'ready)) error) nil)) Notice that it binds a variable called `equal', which is the name of a built-in function. `comint-ipc' uses both the value and function cell of some symbols... It occurs to me that what can happen is that if there is a function that relys on being able to store something in the value cell of the symbol it sits in the function cell of, and that symbol gets shadowed by being bound from a lambda list, like `equal' is here, and then someplace down the call chain it gets called on, it won't work right because of the shadowing. I believe this is exactly the sort of thing that lexical scoping is meant to prevent. The other thing that occurs to me is that this must rarely happen in practice. 100 monkeys clattering on 100 buttonboards might produce a situation like this in 100 years? dunno... as always, YTMAWBK.

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Re: Seppuku and x_IO_error_handler() 27 years

Hrvoje Niksic

karlheg(a)inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes: > > Hrvoje> Not if you want to support Unices other than Linux. > > I don't. That's fine. I do. "The world is not a VAX." (think about it, Karl.) -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Thou Who might be our Father Who perhaps may be in Heaven... -- Roger Zelazny

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