xemacs, again

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From: Earle Martin
Subject: xemacs, again
Date: 11:04 on 14 Oct 2003
That fucking open dialog. If you tab-complete the path to the thing you're
trying to open, and then decide that you do actually want to use the file
listing doodad and double-click a directory listed in it, it appends the
name of the directory you click to the path you've tab-completed. So you can
be in ~/foo and tab-complete to ~/foo/bar, but then open bar by clicking it
and you get ~/foo/bar/bar. Gah!

Also, the default configuration that comes in the Debian package for
xemacs21 is broken. Whenever I open an HTML document with it it switches to
HTML-mode; unfortunately in HTML-mode every time I hit "tab" to indent a
line it hijacks one of my panes to tell me this:

(1) (error/warning) Error in 'post-command-hook' (setting hook to nil):
(wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)

What the hell does that mean? I shouldn't have to read a manual about LISP
to fix the fucking thing BEFORE I CAN EVEN USE IT. Someone gave me a
workaround, which is

M-x customize-font RET font-lock-keyword-face RET [pick a font, save it] 

but that's just not good enough. Did the people who put this package
together not test it? 

Oh. Look. This problem had a fix diagnosed for it TWO YEARS AGO!

http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200102/msg00467.html

So the problem is with "PSGML", whatever that is. I don't care. I only care
that there's a problem that hasn't been fixed and it's impeding my
efficiency.

For fuck's sake.


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# Earle Martin                             http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin
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