Jany> I use xemacs under Linux (debian, uname -a -> Linux figue 2.4.19 #1 Thu Jany> Sep 5 08:36:40 CEST 2002 i686 unknown) and Windows 2000. Jany> I can't use the dsssl-mode, while I am able to use the Jany> lisp-mode on the same files. Jany> If I set the mode by hand and try to swith to highlighting, I get the Jany> following message: Jany> Range must be t or a character: "+-*/.<>!?$%_&~^:" Hi Jany, please do the following: XEmacs <= 21.1 Options->General Options->Debug On Error XEmacs >= 21.4 Options->Troubleshooting->Debug On Error Provoke the error again Send the *Backtrace* to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org by use of Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we should be able to help you. If XEmacs does not build or start up, please send any version and configuration information you have to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org with any mailer as plain text (MIME attachments are OK, please don't send HTML mail). Good Luck, Adrian Jany> TiA. Jany -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

Ville> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 20:33, Adrian Aichner wrote: Jany> I use xemacs under Linux (debian, uname -a -> Linux figue 2.4.19 #1 Thu Jany> Sep 5 08:36:40 CEST 2002 i686 unknown) and Windows 2000. Jany> I can't use the dsssl-mode, while I am able to use the Jany> lisp-mode on the same files. Jany> If I set the mode by hand and try to swith to highlighting, I get the Jany> following message: Jany> Range must be t or a character: "+-*/.<>!?$%_&~^:" >> Hi Jany, >> please do the following: Ville> [...] Ville> Oops, I investigated this a bit and started a GNU sync but forgot to Ville> post. The offending bit is this: Ville> (setq font-lock-defaults '(dsssl-font-lock-keywords Ville> nil t (("+-*/.<>=?$%_&~^:" . "w")) Ville> beginning-of-defun Ville> (font-lock-mark-block-function . mark-defun))) Ville> Actually my XEmacs 21.4.14 reports a bit differently: Ville> Signaling: (error "Char table range must be t, charset, char, or Ville> vector" "+-*/.<>=?$%_&~^:") Ville> [...] Mine[1] reports this: Signaling: (error "Range must be t or a character" "+-*/.<>=!?$%_&~^:") put-char-table("+-*/.<>=!?$%_&~^:" 2 #s(char-table type syntax data ( (?\^＠ ?\^H) 3 ?\t 0 ?\n 524300 ?\^K 3 (?\^L ?\r) 0 (?\^N ?\^_) 3 ?\ 0 ?! 3 ?\" 7 ?\# 8519811 (?$ ?&) 3 ?\' 128 ?\( (4 . ?\)) ?\) (5 . ?\() (?* ?+) 3 ?\, 128 (?- ?/) 3 (?0 ?9) 2 ?: 3 ?\; 8388619 (?< ?\?) 3 ?＠ 131 (?A ?Z) 2 ?\[ (4 . ?\]) ?\\ 9 ?\] (5 . ?\[) (?^ ?_) 3 ?\` 128 (?a ?z) 2 ?{ (4 . ?}) ?| 2621440 ?} (5 . ?{) (?~ ?ÿ) 3))) simple-set-syntax-entry("+-*/.<>=!?$%_&~^:" 2 #s(char-table type syntax data ( (?\^＠ ?\^H) 3 ?\t 0 ?\n 524300 ?\^K 3 (?\^L ?\r) 0 (?\^N ?\^_) 3 ?\ 0 ?! 3 ?\" 7 ?\# 8519811 (?$ ?&) 3 ?\' 128 ?\( (4 . ?\)) ?\) (5 . ?\() (?* ?+) 3 ?\, 128 (?- ?/) 3 (?0 ?9) 2 ?: 3 ?\; 8388619 (?< ?\?) 3 ?＠ 131 (?A ?Z) 2 ?\[ (4 . ?\]) ?\\ 9 ?\] (5 . ?\[) (?^ ?_) 3 ?\` 128 (?a ?z) 2 ?{ (4 . ?}) ?| 2621440 ?} (5 . ?{) (?~ ?ÿ) 3))) modify-syntax-entry("+-*/.<>=!?$%_&~^:" "w" #s(char-table type syntax data ( (?\^＠ ?\^H) 3 ?\t 0 ?\n 524300 ?\^K 3 (?\^L ?\r) 0 (?\^N ?\^_) 3 ?\ 0 ?! 3 ?\" 7 ?\# 8519811 (?$ ?&) 3 ?\' 128 ?\( (4 . ?\)) ?\) (5 . ?\() (?* ?+) 3 ?\, 128 (?- ?/) 3 (?0 ?9) 2 ?: 3 ?\; 8388619 (?< ?\?) 3 ?＠ 131 (?A ?Z) 2 ?\[ (4 . ?\]) ?\\ 9 ?\] (5 . ?\[) (?^ ?_) 3 ?\` 128 (?a ?z) 2 ?{ (4 . ?}) ?| 2621440 ?} (5 . ?{) (?~ ?ÿ) 3))) font-lock-set-defaults-1() font-lock-mode(nil) call-interactively(font-lock-mode) command-execute(font-lock-mode t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) Ville> Hints how to properly fix this are welcome. Don't know the correct fix yet, but a string of characters is not acceptable. Footnotes: [1] "XEmacs 21.4 (patch 14) \"Reasonable Discussion\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Sun Sep 14 2003 on D5DC120J" -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 08:32, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: I don't know where that is, but applying the hunk below into scheme.el works but looks clumsy :) How does one apply the above to this situation? ＠＠ -372,7 +285,12 ＠＠ (insert dsssl-sgml-declaration)) (scheme-mode-variables) (setq font-lock-defaults '(dsssl-font-lock-keywords - nil t (("+-*/.<>=?$%_&~^:" . "w")) + nil t + ;; XEmacs change + ((?+ . "w") (?- . "w") (?* . "w") (?/ . "w") + (?. . "w") (?< . "w") (?> . "w") (?= . "w") + (?? . "w") (?$ . "w") (?% . "w") (?_ . "w") + (?& . "w") (?~ . "w") (?^ . "w") (?: . "w")) beginning-of-defun (font-lock-mark-block-function . mark-defun)))

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 21:25, Adrian Aichner wrote: Yep, nice, thanks, but I couldn't just drop it into scheme.el, will stick with the slightly clumsy alternative ;)