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[Ravindra Viswanath]

Jerry

Many thanks! This script works perfectly. I hadn't realized the need for
difference between emacs and xemacs.

Will also incorporate the other suggestions you provided.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks
Ravindra



On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Jerry James <james at xemacs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Ravindra Viswanath
> <ravindra at koolchip.com> wrote:
> > And installed them all. Got a couple of warnings
>
> Those warnings just indicate that RPM was overwriting previously
> installed, non-RPM-controlled, files.  You recovered appropriately.
>
> However, I *strongly* urge you to configure your yum repositories to
> use EPEL.  With a bare RPM install, you'll never know when an update
> becomes available.  With yum, it will check for you automatically
> every time you run "yum upgrade".
>
> > Now, xemacs works, however, the all important script that I want - need -
> to
> > run, namely "hide-lines.el" (
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/hide-lines.el)
> > does not run as expected.
>
> No, that was written for Emacs, not XEmacs.  However, it isn't very
> hard to adapt.  Try the attached version.  My version has a major
> drawback, inherited from the original, though.  Do you see the line
> that says:
>
> (add-to-invisibility-spec 'hl)
>
> ?  That is modifying a buffer-local variable.  Running that command
> once at load time is wrong.  That needs to be run in *every buffer*
> where you want to do the line hiding.  This code should really be
> turned into a minor mode.  See hideshow.el for an example of how to do
> that.  It should be at
> /usr/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/c-support/hideshow.el in your
> installation.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jerry James
> http://www.jamezone.org/
>