Steven> I also want all my files to be opened and saved as UTF-8. (set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8 no-conversion)) I'm assuming from what you've said before that you REALLY want ALL files opened as UTF-8. The above means that as far as Mule is concerned if it's not UTF-8, it's binary. If not, (set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8)) Mule will try UTF-8 first, and if that doesn't make sense, various ISO-2022, Shift JIS, Big 5, etc. Steven> I don't know the significance of this, but there is at Steven> least one character which is UFT-32 which I would like to Steven> be able to use. Does that mess up everything? Probably. I suspect Mule-UCS will "corrupt" any character that is not known to it as a regular Mule character. Emacs does not have a standard way to represent such characters. AFAIK UTF-32 (by which I presume you mean 4-octet UTF-8) is not a problem as such (XEmacs can handle up to 31-bit integers, so full UCS-4 is not OK, but UTF-32 is). So, the solution is simple, in principle: create a private charset, map it to fonts, and teach Mule-UCS about it. (I suspect this solution is also general in the sense that we could create such a charset on the fly and just stick the characters in there, adding new ones to the charset and to the Mule-UCS database as we detect them.) How do you, uh, "normally" access this character? (This is the first time I've actually heard of a case where UTF-32 is needed!) Do you have fonts and an input method? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Steven T. Hatton wrote: [...] Answers: 1) You want the faces 'zmacs-region', 'highlight', 'primary-selection', 'secondary-selection' and 'isearch' for this. The exact face used in various situations depends on the intent of the highlighting. In general it's going to be the zmacs-region that you want, though. 2) C-q C-j -- C-q is 'insert next character literally', C-j is the newline you want. 3) You need better examples. The regexp stuff in XEmacs doesn't allow any operation more complex than 'substring' and 'move' on the original, though. I believe that Emacs now offers a programmatic regexp replace function, where you can write arbitrarily complex Lisp as the right hand side. If someone /has/ ported this to XEmacs, I would love to hear it, but it shouldn't be too hard to do otherwise. 6) I never used the macro stuff myself; it's almost always easier to write Lisp. 7) Try the 'skeleton' library and the 'tempo' library. Both are good for this sort of 'fill in the blanks' stuff. 9) Type "C-h k", then select the menu item with the mouse. Really. 10) Try the library 'time-stamp', plus either 'skeleton' or a tiny lisp routine that uses `insert' to insert the timestamp. 11) There are two ways of interacting with CVS, both useful for different things: VC integration -- do (require 'vc), then visit a CVS controlled file and hit "C-x v C-h" to see the keybindings. Reading the comments in the 'vc.el' file also helps. PCL-CVS -- run 'cvs-update' and point it at your CVS project directory. The INFO file has the rest of the commands. 12) Useful tools for this: * "C-h a" shows a list of functions and variables matching the regular expression you enter, their documentation, properties and values. * 'list-faces-display' is the best way to browse the defined faces. Also, if you find a variable or function that you are interested in, use `find-variable' or `find-function' to jump to the source file, then read the comments and variable declarations at the top of the file -- that often gives a good overview of what a library can do. 13) 'find-variable', and so forth. 14) "C-x C-r" -- found by hitting "C-h w" for "where is function", then putting in 'find-file' and hitting TAB twice, then picking '...-read-only' HTH. HAND. Daniel -- You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts. -- Voltaire