[comp.emacs] chistory.el

db@its63b.ed.ac.uk (D Berry) (05/16/88)

GNU emacs 18.51, SUNOS 3.2

Has anyone got the stuff in chistory.el to work?  The function 
list-command-history  prints the command history to a temporary buffer,
then calls  eobp  to see if anything has been printed.  However, it
seems to do this in the wrong buffer - if you call  list-command-history
from an empty buffer it complains that there isn't a command history
even if one exists!

If I call  list-command-history  from a non-empty buffer I get a different
error.  It complains that  (lambda (lisp-syntax) (<bytecode stuff>))  has
the wrong number of arguments.  At that point I gave up.
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akhanna@bbn.com (Atul Khanna) (05/16/88)

>Has anyone got the stuff in chistory.el to work?  The function 
>list-command-history  prints the command history to a temporary buffer,
>then calls  eobp  to see if anything has been printed.  However, it
>seems to do this in the wrong buffer - if you call  list-command-history
>from an empty buffer it complains that there isn't a command history
>even if one exists!
>
>If I call  list-command-history  from a non-empty buffer I get a different
>error.  It complains that  (lambda (lisp-syntax) (<bytecode stuff>))  has
>the wrong number of arguments.  At that point I gave up.

In the definition of Command-history-setup (in chistory.el), replace
the line

(lisp-mode-variables)

with

(lisp-mode-variables emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table).

This works for me anyway.


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