Re: A thicker cursor pointer in Aquamacs

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:07:45PM -0600, siemsen <at> ucar.edu wrote:
> 
> At first I thought the suggestion to use control-option-command-8
> was a joke, but it actually makes a kind of sense.  I could reset
> Aquamacs colors to dark-text-on-a-light-background, then hit
> control-option-command-8 every time I enter or leave Aquamacs.  It
> would achieve the goal - the sprite would change from dark grey to
> light grey.  But it would be disconcerting, to say the least, to
> switch to and from reverse video all the time.

Yes, it would be.

Without some 3d party add-on of which I am unaware, there's no way to
change the cursor colour except to go into reverse video.  I think the
Macish answer here is "don't have light text and dark background".  I
too find this braindead and wrong, but it seems to be part of the
design language of the Mac.  Usually when someone asks for this,
they're directed to Mousepose
(http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/overview/) or Mouse Locator
(http://www.2point5fish.com/index.html), from what I've seen.  They
don't do what you want, but at least you can find your pointer.

I think we're off the topic of MacOS X Emacsen, however, and into
general MacOS issues, so I'll shut up now.

A

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Aquamacs: bitten by "Application Support" file (here: calc-preferences)

Hello,

I was a happy Aquamacs 2.3a user until I noticed that everything except Emacs Calculator mode seemed to work
fine. I was able to fix the problem by removing the calc preferences file in "~/Library/Application
Support/Aquamacs Emacs" which, apparently, confuses the autoload mechanism. As it took me some time to
find the problem and I think that other packages might be affected by what is, possibly, a migration issue,
here is the full story:

The wonderful Calculator mode is usually started with M-x calc. It offers a menu entry "Save mode settings"
(m m) which, also in Aquamacs 2.3a, will write a file "~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs
Emacs/calc.el". After that file is in place, further calls to M-x calc in a fresh incarnation of Aquamacs
will yield this error message:

"call-interactively: Autoloading failed to define function calc"

However, calc will continue to work, if Aquamacs is started using the "without any customization" option.
I checked the load-path and found that

"/Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/calc"

is available, however the "~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs" entry comes first and - this
is my interpretation - confuses the autoload mechanism by providing a calc.el file which (here) is a
preferences file and not a package ending with a "(provide 'calc)" line.

I can currently do without the calc-preferences file (and am a happy Aquamacs user again), but surely there
must be better solutions?

Many thanks in advance.
Warm regards,
 Stefan

Re: Aquamacs: bitten by "Application Support" file (here: calc-preferences)

Hi Stefan,

On Sep 2, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
> 
> is available, however the "~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs" entry comes first and - this
is my interpretation - confuses the autoload mechanism by providing a calc.el file which (here) is a
preferences file and not a package ending with a "(provide 'calc)" line.

Could you perhaps customize `calc-settings-file' to something else than "calc.el"?
If this works, we should probably do this for all Aquamacs users.

- David

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Re: Aquamacs: bitten by "Application Support" file (here: calc-preferences)

Dear David,

in Resources/lisp/calc.el, line 234 says:

(locate-user-emacs-file "calc.el" ".calc.el")

and it will yield "calc.el" in directory
"~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/"
because this - Aquamacs Default - is the value of
"user-emacs-directory".

Changing "calc.el" in line 234 to "calc_pref.el", or similar, should do the trick.

Warm regards,
 Stefan

On 02.09.2011, at 14:44, David Reitter wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Sep 2, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Stefan Vollmar wrote:
>> 
>> is available, however the "~/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs" entry comes first and -
this is my interpretation - confuses the autoload mechanism by providing a calc.el file which (here) is a
preferences file and not a package ending with a "(provide 'calc)" line.
> 
> Could you perhaps customize `calc-settings-file' to something else than "calc.el"?
> If this works, we should probably do this for all Aquamacs users.
> 
> - David

Problem with Aquamacs

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Aquamacs: kill-line/smart-spacing interaction (was Re: AUCTeX mode annoyance)

I have checked in a fix for the issue.  Thanks for reporting it once more.

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On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Robert Morelli wrote:

> 
> 
> On 8/30/11 10:30 PM, David Reitter wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Robert Morelli wrote:
>>> to be different from regular Emacs. If I kill a line of text that's indented, it sometimes
>>> deletes a space from the indentation of the next line.
>> That shouldn't be.  What happens if you turn off smart-spacing-mode?  That one is Aquamacs-specific.
>> 
> Yes, the problem goes away when smart-spacing-mode is turned off. Actually, after googling, I found
> a posting in Aquamacs-devel about this issue by the author (Nov 12, 2010, by Jeremy Thurgood), but
> nobody followed up. Then, David Swelt opened an issue on May 24, 2011, but nobody's been assigned.
> 
> For now, I'm going to keep smart-spacing-mode off since this issue is quite a nuissance. It would be nice
> if someone took it up.
> 

On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Jeremy Thurgood wrote:

> When smart-spacing-mode is turned on, hitting C-k (kill-line) on an
> empty line will remove the first space character on the following line
> if there is one.
> 
> For example, consider a buffer containing the following:
> 
> """
> A line.
>  An indented line.
> 
>  Another indented line.
> """
> 
> If the empty line between the two indented lines is killed, the buffer
> then contains the following:
> 
> """
> A line.
>  An indented line.
> Another indented line.
> """
> 
> Note that the indentation of the third line has changed.
> 
> The best fix is probably to check for newlines at the end of the
> killed text before removing the extra space. This problem (or the
> reverse) may occur in other situations -- I have not tested
> exhaustively. Unfortunately, I currently lack the time to learn enough
> to submit a patch.
> 
> (I have removed the debug information helpfully inserted by Aquamacs,
> as I don't believe it is necessary and it contains personal
> information.)
> 
> Thanks,
> --J
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How do I make ESS/R sessions to use quartz() devices for plotting?

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Re: How do I make ESS/R sessions to use quartz() devices for plotting?

On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Fredrik Karlsson wrote:

> I use ESS with R alot, and I love it! However, one annoying thing is that R wants to use X11() devices for
plotting, while I would prefer quartz() for plotting on the Mac.

I just call quartz() before I plot, but this is really not a question for the Emacs mailing list.
Try R-help after consulting the documentation.  Hope that helps.

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Size of curly single quotes

I have submitted this report to the aquamacs-bugs mailing list
yesterday, but I can't find it in the archives. Is there a delay before
it is stored there? I have seen newer messages appearing in the archive.

In my Aquamacs the curly single quotes (curly apostrophes) don't display correctly. To replicate: create
a new buffer and enter this text: ‘curly apostrophes’.

Firstly, the opening apostrophe is too low; it is about centered on the height of the lower case letters
instead of on top. Moreover both the opening and the closing quotes seem too small compared with the rest of
the font, although the closing quote sits on the proper height. 
This has been the case in previous versions of Aquamacs also.
It also happens with different fonts, I have tried several ones and it doesn't make a difference.
I have made a screen dump with the font changed to Monaco 64pt, just to make it more visible. Normally I use
12pt. In this size the opening quote looks more like a centered dot, unless you use a magnifier. As
comparison I have made a screen dump of the same text with the same font in TextEdit. Here the text is bigger
overall, but also the quotes are bigger relative to the text.

The screen dumps are at http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/Images/Emacs.png and http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/Images/Textedit.png

This is Aquamacs Distribution 2.3a.
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Re: Size of curly single quotes

On Sep 8, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

> I have submitted this report to the aquamacs-bugs mailing list
> yesterday, but I can't find it in the archives. Is there a delay before
> it is stored there? I have seen newer messages appearing in the archive.

Yes, I have to moderate all list traffic because most message we receive there are spam.

> In my Aquamacs the curly single quotes (curly apostrophes) don't display correctly. To replicate:
create a new buffer and enter this text: ‘curly apostrophes’.

Looks like a bug that's present  in the 3.x series, too.  Chances are it's on the GNU Emacs side, so I'll test
this and will forward your bug report to them as appropriate.

- D

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