The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.emacs.devel as well. Hello The latest version of the x-symbol package is from 2003, but it still provides useful features, especially for editing LaTeX files, I have not seen in any other packages. Originally developed only for Xemacs, the latest versions contain a GNU emacs specific file, x-symbol-emacs.el. Moreover I do remember that it run under GNU emacs 21, although I forgot the details. Be it as it may, I tried to run x-symbol now under GNU emacs 24.4: Byte compilation did not cause any problems but when I tried to load the package I run into a series of problems, which I could only solve partially. - the function make-local-hook is not defined, I just copied its (xemacs) definition into x-symbol-emacs.el (I attach its definition at the end of the message and it seems to work. - x-symbol-set-face-font: Wrong type argument: listp, "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" although I had debug-on-error t, I did not obtain more details about the error. The definition of x-symbol-set-face-font is as follows (defun x-symbol-set-face-font (face font charsets default) (let ((fontset (concat "fontset-" (symbol-name face)))) (unless (query-fontset fontset) ;; We assume that the first time around we're using latin-8859-1 (new-fontset fontset (x-complement-fontset-spec (make-vector 14 "*") (list (cons 'ascii font))))) (dolist (charset charsets) (when charset (set-fontset-font fontset charset font))) (set-face-font face fontset))) But it seems GNU emacs 24.4 now treats fonts differently. Anybody has a suggestion how to modify this function so that it is compatible with 24.4?? The next two errors are more serious. - eval-buffer: Symbol's function definition is void: remove-specifier [2 times] `Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help. - eval-buffer: Symbol's function definition is void: map-extents [2 times] `Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help. Now both functions are built-in functions defined in C and I don't know how to continue. Any changes of defining an alias for a similar function from GNU emacs??? I really wounder how x-symbol could have worked with GNU emacs 21. `map-extents' is a built-in function -- loaded from "/home/oub/xemacs-mercury/xemacs/src/extents.c" (map-extents FUNCTION &optional OBJECT FROM TO MAPARG FLAGS PROPERTY VALUE) `remove-specifier' is a built-in function -- loaded from "/home/oub/xemacs-mercury/xemacs/src/specifier.c" (remove-specifier SPECIFIER &optional LOCALE TAG-SET EXACT-P) Thanks and regards Uwe Brauer Definition fo make-local-hook (defun make-local-hook (hook) The return value is HOOK. You never need to call this function now that `add-hook' does it for you if its LOCAL argument is non-nil. When a hook is local, its local and global values work in concert: running the hook actually runs all the hook functions listed in *either* the local value *or* the global value of the hook variable. This function works by making `t' a member of the buffer-local value, which acts as a flag to run the hook functions in the default value as well. This works for all normal hooks, but does not work for most non-normal hooks yet. We will be changing the callers of non-normal hooks so that they can handle localness; this has to be done one by one. This function does nothing if HOOK is already local in the current buffer. Do not use `make-local-variable' to make a hook variable buffer-local." (if (local-variable-p hook (current-buffer)) ; XEmacs nil (or (boundp hook) (set hook nil)) (make-local-variable hook) (set hook (list t))) hook) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta