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Re: More emacs instances

monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:46:15 UT

IIUC the assumption "if gnus is not behaving too crazily" is not quite
warranted: more specially, I think it does not save the state of
messages in the standard Maildir way. Instead, it's saved in
a Gnus-specific file.
Stefan

Re: Problem with grep in Emacs 23.2

peter_dyba...@web.de (Peter Dyballa) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:04:48 UT

Am 06.09.2010 um 13:32 schrieb Shenli Zhu:
Does this work from the command line? (I'd use ' instead of \" to
prevent the shell from expanding the meta-characters ``*´´ or ``.´´,
which could cause the failure you observe.)

Re: window local var?

marco-owe...@gmx.de (Marc Weber) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:00:25 UT

Hi Andrea,
I know how to use grep.
I don't want to use the buffer directory.
I want to use the directory from which I started Emacs (or emacs-client)
In order to do so I have to remember the directory when
a) launching Emacs
b) launching Emacs-client
However b) must not override the setting set in a)

Re: Translate-mode

lennart.borg...@gmail.com (Lennart Borgman) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:46:57 UT

[link]
But I do not believe in doing the translation on each space char...

Re: window local var?

andrea.crott...@gmail.com (Andrea Crotti) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:43:50 UT

When running those things in the current buffer directory is what you
normally want..
A fast way to use your own path could also be just doing
M-x grep -nH -e "string" /path/
where also the /path/ has the smart completion.

Translate-mode

andrea.crott...@gmail.com (Andrea Crotti) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:41:07 UT

I would really love to have something like the google translate page but
inside emacs.
The idea is simple, two buffers, one I write and the other is
automatically updated with the translation from and to the languages I
want (using babel.el).
So I think I should remap the command keys that input a space (or tab or

Re: More emacs instances

andrea.crott...@gmail.com (Andrea Crotti) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:17:59 UT

Mm I don't see why you would have two copies, if offlineimap is
bidirectional and if gnus is not behaving too crazily the changes you do
to your Maildir will be also written on the remote imap server.
Is that correct?
Another way is to have an imap server running locally on the machine and
that should be even easier...

window local var?

marco-owe...@gmx.de (Marc Weber) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:39:58 UT

Hi list,
I used Vim in the past heavily - meaning I'm still learning about the
"Emacs" way of doing things. Vimpulse is doing a great job for me :)
I've learned about emacsclient.
However one of the most used actions I run is
- grep
- gnu id utils
- kind of compiler (eg make)
And they all depend on a current directory (most of the time)

Problem with grep in Emacs 23.2

zhushen...@gmail.com (Shenli Zhu) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:32:28 UT

Hi,
In Emacs 23.1, to grep,
(1) M-x grep,
(2) change grep-command "grep -i -nH -e \"re\" -r \"/home/username/\"
--include=\"*.*\"" to what I want.
All works well.
But in Emacs 23.2, after step(1), Emacs will fork a grep subprocess which
take all CPU resource and I have to kill it.
I trace the code, there is a function grep-compute-defaults, seems to check

Re: bug in dired / dired-listing-switches

f3d...@gmail.com (Lei Wang) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:31:45 UT

In my emacs24, (setq dired-listing-switches "-l
--group-directories-first") works fine.
Sorry for confused you in the last mail.

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RE: Printing Problems

epel...@comcast.net (John Burns) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:47:41 UT

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RE: bug in dired / dired-listing-switches

drew.ad...@oracle.com (Drew Adams) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:59:59 UT

What works fine?
The text you quoted speaks about how to report a bug.
Yes, `report-emacs-bug' works fine - in all Emacs releases.
And the bug that Allan reported (#6987) has just been fixed by Yidong Chong.

Re: bug in dired / dired-listing-switches

f3d...@gmail.com (Lei Wang) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:26:32 UT

I use emacs24, it works fine.

Re: Sort directories then files in Dired.

t...@nospam.dev.null (Tim X) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:10:00 UT

You could use the ls-lisp package, which comes with emacs and set
ls-lisp-dirs-first to have the directories listed first in dired. You
may need to add (require 'ls-lisp) to your .emacs
,----[ C-h v ls-lisp-dirs-first RET ]
`----
Tim

RE: Sort directories then files in Dired.

drew.ad...@oracle.com (Drew Adams) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:16:20 UT

FYI - dired-sort-menu.el and dired-sort-menu+.el give you all kinds of useful
sort orders for Dired.
[link]

Re: Sort directories then files in Dired.

thamer.mahm...@gmail.com (Thamer Mahmoud) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:02:12 UT

I don't use --group-directories-first, sorry. Perhaps you should
consider reporting this as a bug.
As an alternative, I use the following code in ~/.emacs which
essentially does the same thing:
(defun mydired-sort ()
"Sort dired listings with directories first."
(save-excursion
(let (buffer-read-only)

Sort directories then files in Dired.

gaven...@gmail.com (Oleksandr Gavenko) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:47:25 UT

ls have option --group-directories-first. But then I set
'dired-listing-switches' to '-al --group-directories-first'
output seems damaged:
e:/home/devel/autorpg:
total used in directory 1 available 13039040
281474976729852 0drwxrwxrwx 1 sasha Отсутствует 0 2007-09-05 ..
1407374883569819 0drwxrwxrwx 1 sasha Отсутствует 0 2009-08-24 .

RE: bug in dired / dired-listing-switches

drew.ad...@oracle.com (Drew Adams) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:00:26 UT

Sorry, I meant `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
The Help menu item is `Send Bug Report'.

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Re: dired+ mode make backup file grey color

xah...@gmail.com (Xah Lee) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:37:42 UT

oops. Sorry, it's
Diredp Ignored File Name
Xah

dired+ mode make backup file grey color

xah...@gmail.com (Xah Lee) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:33:56 UT

in Drew Adam's dired+ mode, how to make the backup files colored gray
as in plain dired?
i don't see a option for backup file faces in dired+'s customization
panel.
thanks.
Xah

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Re: How to create new buffer with t-m-m active region?

davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk (Dan Davison) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:47:33 UT

Thanks for that Drew.
Dan

Re: grep and sort

dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:27:27 UT

Not as a solution to this problem, but related to using
grep and getting an *Occur* like buffer.
Say I want to do a grep-like operation, but then
further filter it or process it in some way,
and M-x grep doesn't do just what I want.
Add in that I'm doing this on more than one file,
but want to be able to click-then-be-taken-to

Re: Simple copy & paste problem

dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:02:58 UT

In article <mailman.4.1282744218.27059.he lp-gnu-em...@gnu.org>,
No such variable as save-interprogram... in 23.0.0.1, at least
not via C-h v.
David

Re: Could someone give me a hint how to write my own function based on tramp?

f3d...@gmail.com (Lei Wang) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:51:48 UT

Thank you very much! Now, i know how to do it.
It's very helpful. Thanks you all!

Re: Simple copy & paste problem

dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:59:04 UT

In article <mailman.4.1281557372.27891.he lp-gnu-em...@gnu.org>,
...
...
mouse2 -- what does that do?
x-cut-buffer-or-selection-valu e is an alias for `x-get-selection-value' in `w32-fns.el'.
(x-cut-buffer-or-selection-val ue)
Return the value of the current selection.
Consult the selection, then the cut buffer. Treat empty strings as if

Re: Simple copy & paste problem

p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:55:52 UT

Exactly.
Yes, indeed.
Of course, I don't like to do twice the same thing.
I have, and I do.
Indeed.
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Re: Simple copy & paste problem

dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:48:49 UT

In article <mailman.0.1281553020.25709.he lp-gnu-em...@gnu.org>,
FWIW, when I want to COPY a region, I do this:
C-w
y (yank it right back -- or C-x u (undo))
go to other location
y (again)
David

Re: Simple copy & paste problem

dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:44:25 UT

In article <87fwyl9haf....@kuiper.lan.inf ormatimago.com>,
That function, delete-region-and-yank, is not part
of standard emacs -- its yours, you wrote it.
What, writing code is so easy that it flies off
your fingers as fast as you can type?
No, of course not. So, pjb, what do you have,
a whole library of these useful tools that you wrote?

Printing Problems

epel...@comcast.net (John Burns) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:15:52 UT

To all,
I need help in getting my version of emacs - 22.3.1, under Windows 7, to
print to my Samsung laser printer which is ported to USB001.
Can anybody who has solved a problem utilizing a USB port or anyone in
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RE: How to create new buffer with t-m-m active region?

drew.ad...@oracle.com (Drew Adams) — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:25:52 UT

Yes, this is a common gotcha that you just have to learn once if you do this
kind of thing: Add this sexp at the end of your command:
(setq deactivate-mark nil)

Re: How to create new buffer with t-m-m active region?

monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:01:07 UT

You need to wrap the delete-region and the inserts with (let
((deactivate-mark)) ...) so that they don't cause the mark to be
deactivated as soon as the command ends.
Stefan

Re: dired and `ls' flags

rea...@newsguy.com (Harry Putnam) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:21:11 UT

Ahaaa... now that is a useful bit of knowledge... quite handy and
needs no extra lisp files.

Re: dired and `ls' flags

rea...@newsguy.com (Harry Putnam) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:18:32 UT

Gack... good point.
I'll confess to only scanning the page... I got far enough to see that
there was an enhanced version and went to it without further ado.
And please note that in saying the wiki didn't make it clear. There
was no disparagement intended. That's why I did include the
proviso... `at least not to me'.

Re: Could someone give me a hint how to write my own function based on tramp?

michael.albi...@gmx.de (Michael Albinus) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:45:40 UT

Likely, you don't need to think about Tramp at all. When you operate
with a default-directory pointing to your remote host, Emacs' functions
like `shell', `process-file' and `start-file-process' work on the remote
host. Whether it is Tramp or not, is not relevant.
(Tramp works in the background for you. It requires Tramp 2.1, also part

How to create new buffer with t-m-m active region?

davi...@stats.ox.ac.uk (Dan Davison) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:38:48 UT

How would I generate a new buffer containing an active region such that
the next command issued in the new buffer will act on the region? (And
so that the region is highlighted)
For example, this function doesn't do what it wants to do:
(defun new-buffer-w-active-region ()
(interactive)
(let ((transient-mark-mode t))

Re: apply multiple faces using propertize

rile...@gmail.com (Richard Riley) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:40:22 UT

ok, sorry for the noise, the function I want is set-face-attribute - I
had been tab completing on face-*. Now I need to battle with my
understanding of symbols. e.g I have a string var myFace which has a
value of "myNewFace". I want to copy an existing face and create a new
face called 'mynewFace and then set the properties. Trial and error will

Re: apply multiple faces using propertize

rile...@gmail.com (Richard Riley) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:22:57 UT

Hi Stefan
I have been digging around and cant find a way to set an existing face
defined the face to start with?
r.

Re: How set working dir for aspell/ispell?

no-spam-thank-...@csmiller.demon.co.uk (Colin S. Miller) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:01:23 UT

Oleksandr,
Although this is not directly answering you question,
you can use
M-x ispell-kill-ispell
to stop the current ispell process. If the current buffer
has flyspell-mode enabled, then ispell will automatically
restart, otherwise it will be restarted the next time it is
needed.
HTH,
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Re: Could someone give me a hint how to write my own function based on tramp?

f3d...@gmail.com (Lei Wang) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:54:03 UT

Thanks for this information.
Ok. Nowadays, when i want to access a crypto partition, i do the
following steps, open a shell, su to root, /sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen,
mount, create a file, edit, save, umount, /sbin/cryptsetup luksClose.
It's very annoying. So i want to make a wrapper function. Of course,

Re: apply multiple faces using propertize

rile...@gmail.com (Richard Riley) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:15:27 UT

Ah, very good thanks. In my case since the face name is dynamically
generated it was of the form
(propertize str 'face (list (genFace "base") (genFace "base" y))
'gnus-face t) where genFace uses (intern) to convert a string name to
its internal symbol.
thanks a lot.

Re: Could someone give me a hint how to write my own function based on tramp?

dan...@rimspace.net (Daniel Pittman) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:29:50 UT

Yeah. You probably won't find TRAMP much help in writing that, frankly,
because it does a lot of things that are entirely irrelevant but quite complex
compared to what you want.
Anyway, it hooks in through the `file-name-handler-alist', and the methods
`tramp{,completion-}-file-name -handler' which then go ahead and act on the

Could someone give me a hint how to write my own function based on tramp?

f3d...@gmail.com (Lei Wang) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:16:31 UT

I want to write a function for my own use. It is going to be a wraper
of an operation sequence, such as, change to root, run some shell and
create and open a file. But i even can't find to use which tramp
function, and how does tramp start.
Could anyone give some advices?

Re: Don't clear kill-ring when restart emacs

thorsten.bo...@withouthat.org (Thorsten Bonow) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:53:12 UT

Jeongtae> I did save my desktop, but it doesn't save my *kill ring* buffer.
Jeongtae> Thank you for your comment, but it didn't work.
Jeongtae> Jeongtae
OK, that was a long shot, but savehist mode *is* mentioned in that chapter of
the documentation.
Sorry, I was pressed for time.
I have
(savehist-mode 1)

Re: apply multiple faces using propertize

monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:40:20 UT

(propertize "foo" 'face '(face1 face2)) ?
Stefan

Re: Bzr Emacs quite slow

monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:39:23 UT

Try M-x report-emacs-bug
Stefan

Re: Bzr Emacs quite slow

a...@muc.de (Alan Mackenzie) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:25:39 UT

What major mode(s) have you been scrolling in? What was your previous
version of Emacs, the one that scrolled quickly? How large is large
(100kB, 1 Mb, 10 Mb, ....)?