Re: port x-symbol to GNU emacs 24.
>>>> "Tassilo" == Tassilo Horn
<tsdh(a)gnu.org> writes:
Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> writes:
> > What features are those you don't see elsewhere in Emacs? (I'm
> > specifically asking about GNU Emacs, not XEmacs.)
>
> I think a picture says more than 1000 words, here is a screenshot. (I
> hope it will not be blocked).
Well, I guess you could use Emacs' built-in
`prettify-symbols-mode' in
order to display TeX macros using some unicode characters (or
preview-latex of course).
I just switched `prettify-symbols-mode' on in a latex
buffer but nothing
happens to \int or \alpha
> > GNU Emacs doesn't have extents and specifiers.
>
> But what would provide a similar feature? I hoped somebody on the
> list could tell me.
Emacs' overlays serve the same purpose as XEmacs' extents,
and I think
there is or has been some 3rd-party package providing a unified API for
overlays and extents.
But I have no clue what specifiers are...
> > My suggestion is to use the equivalent features provided by
GNU
> > Emacs. If you tell which features you miss, people here could
> > advise you about the replacements, either in core or in add-on
> > packages.
>
> Ok, so I have to dig more into the code or hope that somebody in
> xemacs-beta could point me out what is the GNU emacs equivalent to
> those functions. I still wonder how x-symbol could have worked under
> GNU emacs 21, given that extents and specifiers did not exist neither
> for emacs 21.
I just downloaded x-symbol 4.5.1, and in its x-symbol-emacs.el there
are
several aliases defined for things that error for you. For example,
`map-extents' is made an alias for `cl-map-overlays'. So you have to
load that first.
I thought that as well, I had a (require 'x-symbol-emacs) in my init
file, but it seemed not to have worked. I will give it again a try.
Well, eventually when loading x-symbol.el I also got an
wrong-number-of-arguments error but that's probably an incompatibility
which is easy to fix.
Do you mean the
- x-symbol-set-face-font: Wrong type argument: listp,
"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
error? I hoped this is a wrong-number-of-arguments error but I don't
know how to fix it.
I will try again to load x-symbol-emacs manually and then will see.
Thanks
Uwe
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