gwu@barney.LOCAL (George Wu) (09/01/89)
Hi,
As you can guess, this is a bug report. It's not serious, but I'm
reporting it anyways. The problem is that the help text is sometimes garbled
or downright incorrect. For instance, in the enclosed example, I asked for
a description of the debug command. (I typed "^H F debug".) I got the following
Help buffer:
===============================================================================
debug:
on. If PATTERN is empty (or nil), every form
in the command history is offered. The form is placed in the minibuffer
for editing and the result is evaluated.
===============================================================================
I have seen this error in other help functions, but not always. For example,
the same help command yields the proper message for the "compile" command.
The version string I get (from emacs-version) is:
GNU Emacs 18.54.1 of Mon Jul 3 1989 on barney (berkeley-unix)
I am using on a Sun-3/60 running Sun OS 4.0 and X11R3. If it makes a
difference, barney is the machine on which emacs was compiled, and it
is running Sun OS 4.0.3. Finally, my .emacs is included below. I hope this
helps.
George
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George J Wu | Internet: gwu@tcs.com
Software Engineer | 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704
Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc.| (415) 548-4100, ext. 372
=================================== .emacs ====================================
;;; GNU Emacs init file
(message "Loading .emacs...")
;;; Kill a strange bug... (??? JST used it, never bothered to ask why.)
(defun point-max () (- (dot-max) 1))
;;; Personal key bindings
(global-set-key "\^x\^x" 'exchange-dot-and-mark)
(global-set-key "\^x\!" 'shell)
(global-set-key "\^x\^e" 'compile)
(global-set-key "\^xe" 'call-last-kbd-macro)
(global-set-key "\^x^" 'enlarge-window)
(global-set-key "\^x6" 'shrink-window)
(global-set-key "\^x\^v" 'find-file)
(global-set-key "\^x4\^v" 'find-file-other-window)
(global-set-key "\^x4v" 'find-file-other-window)
(global-set-key "\eq" 'query-replace)
(global-set-key "\er" 'replace-string)
(global-set-key "\^x\^k" 'kill-compilation)
(global-set-key "\e\^s" 'isearch-forward-regexp)
(global-set-key "\e\^r" 'isearch-backward-regexp)
(global-set-key "\^xg" 'goto-line)
;;; Various setq's to make me happy
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq mode-line-highlight t)
(setq delete-auto-save-files t)
(setq visible-bell t)
;;; Set compile function default to "make" instead of "make -f"
(setq compile-command "make")
;;; Set up mode lines properly
;;;(setq default-mode-line-format " %b%* (%f) \[%p\] %M")
;;;(setq mode-line-format " %b%* (%f) \[%p\] %M")
;;; Add .ec files (embedded SQL) to automatically invoke c-mode
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.ec$" . c-mode) auto-mode-alist))
;;; Automatically invoke c++-mode for files ending in .C
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.C$" . c++-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(autoload 'c++-mode "c++-mode" "C++ mode")
;;; Enable commands
(put 'eval-expression 'disabled nil)
;;; Conform c-mode to TCS coding standard (Big Brother is Watching)
(setq c-mode-hook
(function
(lambda ()
"Customize the standard C mode, called when a .c file is visited."
(interactive)
(setq indent-tabs-mode t)
(defconst c-indent-level 8)
(defconst c-brace-offset 0)
(defconst c-label-offset -8)
(defconst c-argdecl-indent 8)
(defconst c-continued-statement-offset 8)
(defconst c-auto-newline nil) )))
;;; Start up time in mode line
;(display-time)
(message "Loading .emacs....done")
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