FW: JDEE & XEmacs: fix: deactivate-mark void error

-----Original Message----- From: Jeff.Suttor(a)Sun.COM [mailto:Jeff.Suttor＠Sun.COM] Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 1:25 PM To: jde(a)sunsite.dk Subject: JDEE & XEmacs: fix: deactivate-mark void error there have been many reports of people who use JDEE & XEmacs experiencing errors resulting in an error message that deactivate-mark is void. it appears that many XEmacs distributions are being shipped with a simple.el that has deactivate-mark commented out. a specific datapoint: $ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.18-5 #1 Mon Jun 10 15:31:48 EDT 2002 i686 unknown $ xemacs -V XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" [Lucid] (i386-redhat-linux, Mule) of Fri Feb 22 2002 on daffy.perf.redhat.com $ grep "(defsubst deactivate-mark" /usr/share/xemacs-21.4.6/lisp/simple.el ;(defsubst deactivate-mark () the simplest way for most users to work around this is to edit ~/.xemacs/init.el and add: ;; the following was missing/commented out of ;; /usr/share/xemacs-21.4.6/lisp/simple.el and is necessary to run ;; JDEE. it appears to have originate with FSFmacs and is used by ;; tempo template. it appears to be the minimum necessary to use JDEE. (defvar mark-active nil) (defsubst deactivate-mark () (if transient-mark-mode (progn (setq mark-active nil) (run-hooks 'deactivate-mark-hook)))) those of you that really understand XEmacs and its use of lisp are free to cringe and suggest a better hack-a-round. I encourage all people that have experienced this problem to provide feedback to the source of their distribution that it is being shipped in a mis-configured way that is preventing them from using common applications. P.S. to all Java programmers, be sure to use CheckStyle: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/ from JDEE, Ant, the command line, embedded, whatever. I don't care what you do, as long as you're consistent. :) -- Jeff Suttor <Jeff.Suttor(a)Sun.com&gt;