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reader | 2 May 2004 07:05
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find-dired

Setup: OS = Win XP pro
       Emacs = 21.3 (binary)

My attempts to run M-x find-dired fail with an invalid arguments 

    ~/:
    find . \( -name '*.txt' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
    find: \): invalid argument

    find exited abnormally with code 1 at Sat May 01 23:55:20

Notice the `-exec ls -ld'.  Emacs inserts that part by default I
guess.

My command sequence is:
M-x find-dired <RET>
I'm queried for a directory and choose ~/
Queried for args and type in -name '*.txt'
Then press <RET>

I have the UWIN unix tools installed (David Korns ATT tools)
And have made sure the directory containing UWIN find is first in
path.

(getenv "path")

"C:\\UWIN\\usr\\bin;C:\\Perl\\bin\\;C:\\Vim\\vim\\vim62; [...]"

And from Dos cmd prompt
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Sebastião Barata | 10 May 2004 15:35
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Re: about w3m

Citing Dou Wen <doufaming <at> yahoo.com>:
> i am very new in emacs and w3m, some one can tell me where can i get the
> latest w3m package and how to get it to work under emacs (i used emacs 21.3
> for windows) ?

Have you tried http://w3m.sourceforge.net/

I use w3 not use w3m so I really do not know the difference in installation, but
w3 is stray forward to install, just follow the instructions in INSTALL.

-Sab
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Martin Stemplinger | 10 May 2004 20:31
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Re: about w3m

On Mon Mai 10 2004 at 15:35, Sebastião Barata <sab <at> paradigma.co.pt> wrote:

> I use w3 not use w3m so I really do not know the difference in installation, but
> w3 is stray forward to install, just follow the instructions in INSTALL.
>

AFAIK you'll need cygwin to compile w3m under windows. If you don't
want to do it yourself you may try the binary from 
http://www.stefan-rinke.de/articles/publish/de/download/w3m.zip (not
sure how current it is, though)

HTH
Martin
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Martin Stemplinger | 10 May 2004 20:49
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How can I edit Windows Unicode files with Emacs?


Windows XP uses some Unicode variant internally (I think it is some
kind of multibyte representation). When I open such a
file I only get random junk. Is there a way to display those files?
It's a shame to have to use Notepad for those :-)

TIA
Martin
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Jason Rumney | 12 May 2004 23:20
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Re: How can I edit Windows Unicode files with Emacs?

Martin Stemplinger <mstemplinger <at> gmx.de> writes:

> Windows XP uses some Unicode variant internally (I think it is some
> kind of multibyte representation). When I open such a file I only
> get random junk. Is there a way to display those files?  It's a
> shame to have to use Notepad for those :-)

The following key sequence will tell Emacs to use utf-16 (Unicode with
16 bit characters) for the following command:

  C-x RET c utf-16 

If you use that immediately before opening the file does it decode the
file correctly?

If open a lot of such files, you can give utf-16 high priority by
adding the following to your .emacs:

(prefer-coding-system 'utf-16)
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August | 13 May 2004 15:00
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Scrollbar deficiencies

Does anyone know why the appearance of the scrollbar(s) in NTEmacs 21.3.3
differs from the standard look of other Windows (XP) applications? As
mentioned in another posting, windows in emacs also have a tendency to
flicker when dragging the scrollbar. I have also notised that when I use
some fonts, e.g. Proggy Clean, there is a small gap between the right fringe
and the scrollbar and between the scrollbar and the edge of the frame
(window).

Is it time to update the GUI code?

Regards,
August
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Konrad, Doug | 14 May 2004 00:27

Problem using --eval

I'm trying to use ediff in emacs from WinCVS to compare two versions of a
file. It didn't take too long with Google to find people who have done this
successfully using --eval, as in:

	emacs --eval=(ediff-files "version1" "version2")

where version1 and version2 are the actual file names on disk. However, I
get the following messages:

(u:\emacs\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe --eval=(ediff-files "emacs-diff.pl"
"emacs-diff.pl"))
Loading u:/emacs/nxml-mode-20031031/rng-auto.el (source)...done
Loading regexp-opt...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
command-line-1: End of file during parsing

I found the following reference, which suggests that I'm not the only one
having this problem:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2003-01/msg01004.html

Thanks
Doug
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Jason Rumney | 14 May 2004 01:10
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Re: Problem using --eval

"Konrad, Doug" <doug.konrad <at> polycom.com> writes:

> I'm trying to use ediff in emacs from WinCVS to compare two versions of a
> file. It didn't take too long with Google to find people who have done this
> successfully using --eval, as in:
>
> 	emacs --eval=(ediff-files "version1" "version2")

You have to quote the argument to --eval so it doesn't get split on
the spaces. Since the argument itself contains quotes, you'll have to
quote them too:

emacs --eval "(ediff-files \"version1\" \"version2\")"
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August | 15 May 2004 01:22
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RCS problems

I recently downloaded rcs57pc1 from
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq10.html#where-rcs. When I issue
`vc-register' or `vc-next-action' from Emacs (21.3.3) I get the error
message:

    Running ci...FAILED (status 255)

A RCS subdirectory is being created but there are no files in it. What's
wrong? (Neither my working directory or file contain spaces.)

--August
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Dr Francis J. Wright | 17 May 2004 20:29
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RE: RCS problems

> From: 
> help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk <at> gnu.org 
> [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk <at> gnu.o
> rg] On Behalf Of August
> Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 12:22 am
> To: help-emacs-windows <at> gnu.org
> Subject: [h-e-w] RCS problems
> 
> I recently downloaded rcs57pc1 from
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq10.html#where-rcs
> . When I issue `vc-register' or `vc-next-action' from Emacs 
> (21.3.3) I get the error
> message:
> 
>     Running ci...FAILED (status 255)
> 
> A RCS subdirectory is being created but there are no files in 
> it. What's wrong? (Neither my working directory or file 
> contain spaces.)
> 
> --August

One of the native ports, and this might be it, has some peculiar environment
variable requirements, such as the need to have a timezone set explicitly.
Some time ago, I dumped the native port I was using in favour of the Cygwin
port, which I find works better and does not seem to require any peculiar
setup.  So that is my suggestion.

Francis
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