X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/ff4a5a419e8d47d229a6270fe9ea3fc194df8ccd..027676cc19d67b70b734526486011dcff8ee2e78:/doc/misc/efaq.texi diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq.texi b/doc/misc/efaq.texi index 35fb9c93b2..c320b8b6c0 100644 --- a/doc/misc/efaq.texi +++ b/doc/misc/efaq.texi @@ -392,12 +392,9 @@ recipients the same freedom that you enjoyed. @cindex Posting messages to newsgroups @cindex GNU mailing lists -The file @file{etc/MAILINGLISTS} describes the purpose of each GNU -mailing list (@pxref{Informational files for Emacs}). For those lists -which are gatewayed with newsgroups, it lists both the newsgroup name -and the mailing list address. The Emacs mailing lists are also -described at @uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs, the Emacs -Savannah page}. +The Emacs mailing lists are described at +@uref{http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs, the Emacs Savannah +page}. Some of them are gatewayed to newsgroups. The newsgroup @uref{news:comp.emacs} is for discussion of Emacs programs in general. The newsgroup @uref{news:gnu.emacs.help} is specifically @@ -865,9 +862,7 @@ You can get Tkinfo at @cindex @file{COPYING}, description of file @cindex @file{DISTRIB}, description of file @cindex @file{GNU}, description of file -@cindex @file{INTERVIEW}, description of file @cindex @file{MACHINES}, description of file -@cindex @file{MAILINGLISTS}, description of file @cindex @file{NEWS}, description of file This isn't a frequently asked question, but it should be! A variety of @@ -891,16 +886,9 @@ Emacs Availability Information @item GNU The GNU Manifesto -@item INTERVIEW -Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software -system with BYTE editors - @item MACHINES Status of Emacs on Various Machines and Systems -@item MAILINGLISTS -GNU Project Electronic Mailing Lists - @item NEWS Emacs news, a history of recent user-visible changes @@ -1590,10 +1578,9 @@ According to the documentation string for @code{delete-selection-mode} delete-selection-mode @key{RET}}): @quotation -When Delete Selection mode is enabled, Transient Mark mode is also -enabled and typed text replaces the selection if the selection is -active. Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at point regardless of -any selection. +When Delete Selection mode is enabled, typed text replaces the selection +if the selection is active. Otherwise, typed text is just inserted at +point regardless of any selection. @end quotation This mode also allows you to delete (not kill) the highlighted region by @@ -1961,7 +1948,7 @@ automatically scrolls the display horizontally when point moves off the left or right edge of the window. Note that this is overridden by the variable -@code{truncate-partial-width-windows} if that variable is non-nil +@code{truncate-partial-width-windows} if that variable is non-@code{nil} and the current buffer is not full-frame width. In Emacs 20, use @code{hscroll-mode}. @@ -2423,12 +2410,12 @@ printed an error message? If so, compiling from within Emacs using the @kbd{M-x compile} and @kbd{M-x recompile} commands is a much more effective way of doing that. Emacs automatically intercepts the compile error messages, inserts them into a special buffer called -@code{*compilation*}, and lets you visit the locus of each message in +@file{*compilation*}, and lets you visit the locus of each message in the source. Type @kbd{C-x `} to step through the offending lines one by one (starting with Emacs 22, you can also use @kbd{M-g M-p} and @kbd{M-g M-n} to go to the previous and next matches directly). Click @kbd{Mouse-2} or press @key{RET} on a message text in the -@code{*compilation*} buffer to go to the line whose number is mentioned +@file{*compilation*} buffer to go to the line whose number is mentioned in that message. But if you indeed need to go to a certain text line, type @kbd{M-g M-g} @@ -2697,8 +2684,8 @@ Use the function @code{w32-send-sys-command}. For example, you can put the following in your @file{.emacs} file: @lisp -(add-hook 'term-setup-hook - #'(lambda () (w32-send-sys-command ?\xF030))) +(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook + (lambda () (w32-send-sys-command ?\xF030))) @end lisp To avoid the slightly distracting visual effect of Emacs starting with @@ -2750,7 +2737,7 @@ type @kbd{C-h C-p} to read it. Old versions (i.e., anything before 19.29) of Emacs had problems editing files larger than 8 megabytes. In versions 19.29 and later, the maximum -buffer size is at least 2^27@minus{}1, or 134,217,727 bytes, or 132 MBytes. +buffer size is at least @math{2^{27}-1}, or 134,217,727 bytes, or 132 MBytes. The maximum buffer size on 32-bit machines increased to 256 MBytes in Emacs 22, and again to 512 MBytes in Emacs 23.2. @@ -2865,8 +2852,7 @@ To make a terminfo entry for @samp{emacs}, use @code{tic} or @file{/usr/lib/terminfo/d/dumb} to @file{/usr/lib/terminfo/e/emacs}. Having a termcap/terminfo entry will not enable the use of full screen -programs in shell buffers. Use @kbd{M-x terminal-emulator} for that -instead. +programs in shell buffers. Use @kbd{M-x term} for that instead. A workaround to the problem of missing termcap/terminfo entries is to change terminal type @samp{emacs} to type @samp{dumb} or @samp{unknown} @@ -3299,6 +3285,7 @@ the constituent Emacs packages. For advice on how to find extra packages that are not part of Emacs, see @ref{Packages that do not come with Emacs}. +@c Note that M-x view-external-packages references this node. @node Packages that do not come with Emacs @section Where can I get Emacs Lisp packages that don't come with Emacs? @cindex Unbundled packages @@ -3607,12 +3594,12 @@ been executed but is not, then you will experience this problem (this code/file execution order is not enforced after startup). To postpone the execution of Emacs Lisp code until after terminal or -window-system setup, treat the code as a @dfn{lambda list} and set the -value of either the @code{term-setup-hook} or @code{window-setup-hook} -variable to this lambda function. For example, +window-system setup, treat the code as a @dfn{lambda list} and add it to +@code{emacs-startup-hook} (or @code{tty-setup-hook} in Emacs 24.4 and +newer). For example, @lisp -(add-hook 'term-setup-hook +(add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda () (when (string-match "\\`vt220" (or (getenv "TERM") "")) ;; Make vt220's "Do" key behave like M-x: