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Hrvoje Niksic

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes: > This will likely be highly controversial. It is. What exactly do we gain with this change? I'm not totally adverse to the change, but I do admit I *like* the current prompt. > What does M-x mean anyways? It stands for "eXtended". As the tutorial explains: * PROŠIRENJE SKUPA NAREDBI -------------------------- Emacsovih naredbi ima puno puno više nego što bi ikad moglo stati na sve kontrolne i meta znakove. Emacs ovo zaobilazi proširenim (eXtended) naredbama. One dolaze u dva oblika: C-x Proširi znak. Praćena jednim znakom. M-x Proširena naredba s imenom. Praćena dugim imenom.

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Re: key description consistency 25 years, 3 months

Hrvoje Niksic

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes: > Invalid (FSF Emacs) key format (see doc of define-key): SPC The message is bogus. SPC doesn't work in FSF Emacs either. > - accept FSF key formats and any formats XEmacs currently prints out > for the purposes of define-key and friends The latter would be OK with me. Forget about FSF format. > - always print out key descriptions in the preferred form that > define-key currently accepts. This would mean, for example, that > if the user types C-x 4 and pauses, he would see this prompt in > the echo area: > > (control x) ?4 - Yuck. > It's never been entirely clear to me why the macro `kbd' exists, > except perhaps for cross-Emacs portability. Sort of. We got `kbd' along with the edmacro package, which I've basically rewritten from scratch. I considered the kbd syntax "cooler" and in some cases more clear than what we currently use. I've never intended it to be a complete replacement for our define-key syntax.

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Re: key description consistency 25 years, 3 months

Jan Vroonhof

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes: > It's never been entirely clear to me why the macro `kbd' exists, > except perhaps for cross-Emacs portability. Because introducing symbols like C-S-space is very very ugly and because the strings are already taken for and old incompatible syntax. What is also very inconsistent is that the vector notation (which I like in general) takes symbols for the names of some keys and characters for others. IMHO it should be either "A" or [(shift a)] Jan

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Re: gnuserv woes 25 years, 3 months

Michael Sperber

>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> writes: Andy> There have been recurring reports of gnuserv causing 100% cpu utilisation Andy> under cygwin. I had always assumed that this was a cygwin bug, and indeed Andy> upgrading the cygwin version seems to cure things. However, we have now had Andy> reports of the same situation occuring on AIX and solaris, and I too have Andy> seen this behaviour now although it generally works for me. Andy> Does anyone have any idea what could be going on? This is both 21.1 and 21.2. The problem I've been seeing since about a week is different: The first gnuclient will connect to XEmacs but exit immediately, leaving the terminal (this is with -nw) in some twilight state. The second one will work correctly, from which I can delete the device of the first one. :-( -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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Re: Kill M-x 25 years, 3 months

SL Baur

Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes: >> + (if prefix-arg >> + (format "Run command with prefix argument `%S': " prefix-arg) > This a bit on the long side I think. They're both on the long side and conflict with icomplete. Please do not put this patch into XEmacs without providing a way to turn it off. The current prompts are terse and allow clever packages to make clever use of the minibuffer that they wouldn't be able to do with longer prompts. Verbosity for verbosity sake is not a win, IMO.

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Re: Kill M-x 25 years, 3 months

Didier Verna

Martin Buchholz wrote: > This will likely be highly controversial. I like the idea, but I find your prompts too long. Why not just using "Command: " and "Command (prefix `%S'): " ? Or make these strings Yet Other User Options. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / ENST, INFRES C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. +33 (1) 45 81 73 46 75013 Paris, France Fax. +33 (1) 45 81 31 19

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Re: Kill M-x 25 years, 3 months

Jan Vroonhof

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes: > + (if prefix-arg > + (format "Run command with prefix argument `%S': " prefix-arg) This a bit on the long side I think. Jan

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Re: mailcrypt decrypt broken? 25 years, 3 months

Hrvoje Niksic

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes: > What I don't understand is why it is so hard to at least preserve > extents/markers _outside_ of the region being decoded It isn't. If the outside markers are getting screwed, then it's a bug. What I was talking about are the markers and extents within the region. I had no idea the about outside ones. The implementation of decode-coding-region is very simple, and looking at it, I don't see how the markers get broken.

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Re: mailcrypt decrypt broken? 25 years, 3 months

Hrvoje Niksic

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes: > It seems that marker positions are not being preserved correctly > across calls to `decode-coding-region', but I have no idea why. But of course. And neither are extents. Don't you remember my rants about it?

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Re: pop3.el 2.06 25 years, 3 months

Adrian Aichner

>>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com> writes: APA> I am currently testing. Andy, I have tested it a bit with pgnus-0.95 and pgnus-0.96 and haven't had any problems in (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.1 (patch 6) \"Big Bend\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of Sun Aug 15 1999 on ZJ75T". Please include the little patch I sent yesterday. Regards, Adrian

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