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verifying PGP signed package-index files 23 years

Steve Youngs

Hi People! I've got this working, but I'm wondering if we really need it or not. I mean, as far as I can tell, this part of the XEmacs Package System has never worked, and it was introduced in 1998. Obviously it was never seen as important enough to do anything about. Do the package-index files need to be PGP signed? Does anyone know what the reasoning was behind the idea in the first place? Another thing that concerns me is that if I apply the patch to fix the PGP stuff and then start signing the package-index files it'll bugger up any XEmacsen that is pre-PGP-patch. So, what would you like me to do; fix the PGP code and tell everyone to stop whining and upgrade, or get rid of the PGP code in the package tools altogether? -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------<youngs(a)xemacs.org>---|

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Questions about history of man/texinfo.texi 23 years

Adrian Aichner

Dear All! Hacking on texi2html I found texinfo.texi to be badly structured wrt. its ＠node structuring. texinfo.texi seems to be unique to XEmacs? I have not found it in GNU Emacs at http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/man/ CVS suggest Steve L. Baur and Martin Buchholz have worked most on it, right? Are there any objections against me trying to get the document sections properly linked? Best regards, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

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Re: crash 23 years

Robert Pluim

kai uwe tempel writes: > Robert Pluim writes: > > temu(a)medizin.uni-leipzig.de writes: > > > XEmacs 21.4.5 "Civil Service" configured for `i386-debian-linux'. > > > > This is debian unstable, I imagine? > > that's right. (but it isn't really unstable :) > > > XEmacs 21.5 (beta3) works fine on the same machine). > > i tried to avoid to install non-.deb packed programs. even i know (and > tested) it works well (having 2 xemacs'es). > Ah, so this is the .deb you've installed? For some reason I thought you were compiling it yourself (especially as I can't find it in the standard unstable package list). > > Andy Piper writes: > > Please check that you are not suffering from Xaw3d installed as > > Xaw. I think debian is particularly susceptible to this. > > installed "as" xaw? i don't know. > 8<-- > ../b # dpkg -l xaw* <snip> I don't think this is the problem in this case. > > <sigh> This turns out to be the -z combreloc crash, which I'd > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > can i check this? where can i read about this? If you look in the xemacs-beta archives it's described there. Don't worry about it, your XEmacs is not suffering from that problem, mine was. > sorry, by xemacs has no symbol table compiled in. i have to rebuild > it: the only one i'd done was "cvs-status" and input the repository > 8<-- > ../b # gdb /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.5-nomule > GNU gdb 5.0.90-cvs (MI_OUT) > [... ] (gdb) run > Starting program: /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.5-nomule > (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... > [...] > (no debugging symbols found)... > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x40197de0 in XDrawLine () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 > (gdb) quit Whee! I can reproduce this, and it's the progress gauge falling over. Andy, is there any useful info I can give you here? There are two workarounds: 1. put (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t) in your .emacs file. 2. Install lesstif and lesstif-dev and recompile XEmacs > > ps: lots of thanks for your fast response. That's what we're paid for ;-) Robert --

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file-confirm-mode 23 years

Pekka Marjola

Here's a minor mode to avoid opening buffers for non-existing files like "foo.", when "foo.c" and "foo.h" exist, and to avoid duplicate frames. Use it by running following: (require 'file-confirm) ; or generate auto-autoloads (turn-on-file-confim) If there's interest, this could be added to suitable package. -- pema(a)iki.fi * http://www.iki.fi/pema/ Sagakeeper (Ars Magica web tool) 1.2.0 http://www.sagakeeper.com/ pin (emacs startup) 0.41 http://www.iki.fi/pema/emacs/ zbkrc (shell startup) 0.22 http://www.iki.fi/pema/zbkrc/

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gtk-xemacs status and bug database/list 23 years

Doug Alcorn

Off the http://www.xemacs.org/ page there is a link to Bill P's site for GTK-Xemacs. That page is quite old and in no way reflects what I know the status to be. Is there a better link to see what the status is? I'm considering switching from Athena to GTK. I'm just not sure what isn't going to work right. Since this will be for daily/production use I'd like to know without going through the effort of building and installing. I can certainly live with some bugs/missing features; I just need to know what they are. On a related note, is there a bug list for xemacs? The main site has a "search for problems" that just points to this list. Would setting up something like bugzilla be usefull? -- (__) Doug Alcorn (mailto:doug＠lathi.net http://www.lathi.net) oo / PGP 02B3 1E26 BCF2 9AAF 93F1 61D7 450C B264 3E63 D543 |_/ If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

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C brace offset 23 years

Clarence Donath

Greetings and felicitations, We are having trouble with C brace indents. Our braces on a line by themselves are indenting to what c-basic-offset is set to. This is what it looks like: if () { What we want is this: if () { I've been all through the faqs, documentation and archives, and found c-brace-offset, c-continued-brace-offset, etc., tried them all, but XEmacs is ignoring these. We are using XEmacs [version 20.4; Feb 1998] that I built on IRIX. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Clarence Donath

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Re: Notice of web-commit by stephen in XEmacs/xemacsweb/Releases/Public-21.2 23 years

Valdis Kl=?iso8859-4?Q?=BA?=tnieks

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:24:08 GMT, cvs(a)sunsite.dk said: > Log Message: > Fix link to future Dangling symlinks. What a pain.

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Re: "Wrong type argument" with Update Package Index 23 years

Steve Youngs

Sorry for the long delay, I've been "offline" for a couple of months. |--==> "s" == steele <steele(a)cs.brandeis.edu> writes: s> Dear Bug Team! s> Choosing Tools>Packages>Update Package Index results in a minibuffer s> display of: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" How have you gotten on with this? I usually: Tools -> Packages -> Add Download Site -> pick site Tools -> Packages -> List and Install The 'List and Install' updates the package index file. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------<youngs(a)xemacs.org>---|

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XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" pretest available 23 years

Stephen J. Turnbull

Check it out from CVS at the usual places (for anoncvs, use CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs＠sunsite.dk:/pack/xemacscvs, password is "cvs"). Use tag "r21-4-6rc1". The repository at SunSITE seems corrupt; the admin has been notified. Do "cvs status version.sh" to check; if the server aborts because "an expected branch is missing," it's not yet been fixed. Please report any other errors or oddities, as they probably indicate a different problem. For immediate use, the usual set of tarballs and a patchkit against r21-4-5 are available at ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/xemacs-21.4/pretest There are some pending changes, there will be at least one more rc before 21.4.6 is publically released. Probably rc2 will happen at the beginning of next week. If you feel you only want to test one, I would prefer you get this one ASAP because I want as many people to bang on the Custom fix for as long as possible. Try to make it do weird things, try it for anything you think a "typical user" might do. Main features to be tested: 1) A fix for the "can't frob italic face" bug. YMMV, but I at least can now vary the size and family of italic. All hail Jan Vroonhof. 2) Some pearls for the GTK crowd, maybe. GTK faces will now get initialized, courtesy of John Paul Wallington. John fears that this then breaks face customization in some other way, but I don't see how. He did not have Jan's patch, so perhaps things are really all right now. Please test and let me know. 3) A full synch to Andy Piper's release of 21.4.5 for the Windows people. Andy has moved on ahead, but maybe you do want to test this branch anyway because of Jan's Customize fix. 4) A fix, actually two of them, for the "crash mysteriously on making first frame" bug. GNU ld now literally stirs up your binary before giving it back to you, leaving you fried. You can either pass -z nocombreloc to ld, or use --pdump. Autoconfiscated, should "just work". Bleeding edge Linux users, please test. 5) This time I really did kneecap IPv6 CNAME checks, which I promised last time but somehow didn't make it into the release. It is of course the RaitThang[tm], so you can have 'em if you want 'em with --with-ipv6-cname=yes. This will get reversed at some later date, but for now there are many more weakly connected people than people with IPv6 environments. 6) For the eye candy crowd who wanna do it themselves, finally a tutorial on things flashy and trashy. Kudos to Darryl Okahata. C-h i "Lispref" "Glyph Examples". 7) Fixes for the autosave lossage in Japanese mail with VM, from Kyle, for misdecoding of negative ctimes, from GNU via Simon Josefsson, and for the failure of truncate-partial-width-windows to live up to its billing as "buffer local" from Ben. Many other small changes. I'd especially appreciate you Windows users digging up all the regressions (well, yes, there may be regressions) versus Andy's 21.4.5 (== the version available via netinstaller, aka r21-4-5-windows in CVS). Brief summary of Changes to 21.4.6 "Common Lisp (candidate 1)" - Fix incorrect ctime to Lisp conversion. - HP-UX LDFLAGS fix. - Many typo fixes and small documentation enhancements. - New section of examples of glyph usage in Lispref. - Make `truncate-partial-width-windows' effect buffer-local. - Suppress bogus focus changes. - Fix custom's handling of font size and family. - Fix comboreloc crash (common on Linux when making first frame). - Default --with-ipv6-cname=no. - From 21.4.5 "Civil Service (Windows)": - Fixed a scrollbar problem when selecting the frame with focus. - Fixed `mswindows-shell-execute' under cygwin. - Added a new function `mswindows-cygwin-to-win32-path' for JDE. - Added support for dialog-based directory selection. - The installer version has been updated to the 21.5 netinstaller. The 21.5 installer now does proper dde file association and adds uninstall capability. - Handle leak fix from Mike Alexander. - New release build script. -------- ChangeLog entries from ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * Makefile.in.in: HP-UX needs LDFLAGS. From Lutz Jaenicke <Lutz.Jaenicke(a)aet.TU-Cottbus.DE>. 2001-11-17 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * configure.in: Fix typos in comments. * (Miscellaneous flags): Use -z nocombreloc if supported and !pdump. * (Installation): Suggest pdump instead of -z nocomboreloc. * configure.usage: Document --quick-build. 2001-10-30 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * configure.in: Typo in reference to with_ipv6_cname. 2001-10-30 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * configure.in: Initialize with_ipv6_cname=no. * configure.usage: Document it. -------- ChangeLog entries from lib-src/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from lisp/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. 2001-11-20 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.og> * faces.el (make-face-family): (make-face-size): New face-modifying functions per Jan Vroonhof. cus-face.el (custom-set-face-font-family): (custom-set-face-font-size): Use them. * font.el (font-window-system-mappings): More precise docstring. (font-create-name): (font-create-object): (tty-font-create-object): (tty-font-create-plist): (x-font-create-object): (x-font-create-name): (ns-font-create-name): (mswindows-font-create-object): (mswindows-font-create-name): Add doctrings. 2001-11-14 John Paul Wallington <jpw(a)shootybangbang.com> * gtk-faces.el (gtk-init-device-faces): removed spurious quote before let* expression. 2001-10-29 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> * code-files.el (toggle-buffer-file-coding-system): mark buffer as modified when changing coding system. * toolbar-items.el (toolbar-dired): Use interactive "D" spec so that we invoke the GUI directory selector. 2001-10-25 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> * dialog.el (make-dialog-box): use new directory dialog support. * minibuf.el (read-file-name-1): ditto. (read-file-name): ditto. (read-directory-name): ditto. -------- ChangeLog entries from lwlib/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from man/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. 2001-11-15 Darryl Okahata <darrylo(a)xemacs.org> * lispref/glyphs.texi: lispref/lispref.texi: Add examples of how to insert graphics into a buffer. -------- ChangeLog entries from netinstall/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. 2001-10-27 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> * localdir.cc (dialog_cmd): allow download directory to be created. * log.cc (exit_setup): cygwin -> XEmacs * net.cc (dialog_cmd): (dialog_proc): (do_net): sync with cygwin installer. * res.rc: * resource.h (IDS_CREATE_DIR): new. * source.cc (load_dialog): (save_dialog): (dialog_cmd): (dialog_proc): (do_source): sync with cygwin installer. * uninstall.cc (progress): remove log message. * Makefile.in.in: generated setup-bin.ini correctly. 2001-10-25 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> * Merge 21.5 codeline. 2001-10-25 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> * setup.mak (OBJS): minor build fixes. (distclean): -------- ChangeLog entries from nt/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. -------- ChangeLog entries from src/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * editfns.c (make_time): New function. (Fencode_time): Use it instead of wasteful_word_to_lisp. * lisp.h (make_time): Prototype and comment it. * dired.c (wasteful_word_to_lisp): Deprecate. (Ffile_attributes): Use make_time() instead of wasteful_word_to_lisp(). 2001-10-31 Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> * fileio.c (auto_save_1): Use current coding system, not escape-quoted. 2001-11-13 Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org> * window.c: * window.c (window_truncation_on): * window.c (syms_of_window): truncate-partial-width-windows should respect the buffer being displayed, like other redisplay vars. 2001-11-13 Hirokazu FUKUI <hfukui(a)sannet.ne.jp> * event-stream.c (Fread_key_sequence): save current buffer. 2001-10-29 Andrew Begel <abegel(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> * ntheap.c (_heap_init): Don't redefine in VS.NET (MSC >= 1300). 2001-10-29 Andrew Begel <abegel(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> * alloc.c (lcrecord_stats): Add space for types defined in modules. 2001-10-26 Mike Alexander <mta(a)arbortext.com> * event-msw.c (slurper_free_shared_data_maybe): Free the pipe handle. 2001-10-25 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> * ChangeLog: * dialog-msw.c (handle_directory_proc): new function. (handle_directory_dialog_box): new fucntion. (handle_file_dialog_box): use new directory dialog support. (mswindows_make_dialog_box_internal): ditto. * event-msw.c (mswindows_wnd_proc): minor fix to scrollbar event handling. (mswindows_find_frame): make global. * fileio.c (Fexpand_file_name): build fix. * general-slots.h: add Qdirectory. * scrollbar-msw.c (mswindows_handle_scrollbar_event): fix focus handling. * syswindows.h (LOCAL_TO_WIN32_FILE_FORMAT): fix problem with cygwin not leaving win32 paths unchanged. * win32.c (Fmswindows_cygwin_to_win32_path): new function. Use the cygwin runtime to do path conversion. (Fmswindows_shell_execute): fix cygwin handling of URLs. (syms_of_win32): add new function. * window.c (window_loop): build fix. 2001-10-15 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org> (Fmswindows_shell_execute): fix handling of URL's under cygwin. -------- ChangeLog entries from tests/ChangeLog -------- 2001-11-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> * XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" is released. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

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a user suggestion for rect.el 23 years

Didier Verna

What do you think about that ? It's ok with me (I like the proposed key binding). Unless there are any objection, I'll apply a patch to implement this. -- Didier Verna, didier(a)lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (1) 53 14 59 47 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Fax.+33 (1) 53 14 59 22 didier(a)xemacs.org

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