From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, corwin@bru.st, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
akrl@sdf.org
Subject: Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:11:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r18gz7el.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54886233EF2EDA040ADC80DFF32B9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 6 Feb 2022 06:57:57 +0000)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>,
> "H. Dieter Wilhelm"
> <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>,
> Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 06:57:57 +0000
>
> And if I just do `M-x load-library synonyms.elc'
> then I get the error message in the echo area:
>
> Symbol's value as variable is void: mode
>
> This is the use of `define-derived-mode' in
> synonyms.el (I've elided the doc-string text):
>
> (define-derived-mode synonyms-mode text-mode "Synonyms"
> "..."
> (modify-syntax-entry ?- "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?1 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?2 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?3 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?9 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?0 "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
> (modify-syntax-entry ?$ "w" synonyms-mode-syntax-table)
> (buffer-disable-undo)
> (setq fill-column synonyms-fill-column)
> (set (make-local-variable 'transient-mark-mode) t))
>
> I don't feel like digging deeper into this.
> Hopefully someone knowledgeable can figure out
> what the problem is from my description here.
The only way forward is for you to prepare a complete reproduction
recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", then someone could look into what is
going on there.
> I'll just mention that this is the first time I've
> not been able to just immediately use a Windows
> binary for Emacs. Never had an error raised before
> when just loading my init file. And that's still
> the case, for all releases starting with Emacs 20.
This is a pretest. Problems are quite possible and expected. That's
why we have pretests in the first place.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-06 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-04 18:54 emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha Corwin Brust
2022-02-04 22:08 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-02-04 22:12 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-04 23:10 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-05 1:28 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-05 4:35 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-05 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 8:48 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-05 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-05 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 9:22 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-05 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 16:49 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-05 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 19:25 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-05 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 21:11 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-05 22:56 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-06 0:10 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-06 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 8:51 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-06 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-06 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 3:11 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-06 6:57 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-06 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-02-06 17:07 ` Drew Adams
2022-02-09 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-09 21:03 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-10 5:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-10 8:56 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-10 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-10 13:36 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-10 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-10 18:34 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-11 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-11 9:16 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-11 9:21 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-11 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-11 14:16 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-11 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-11 14:38 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-11 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-11 14:18 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-11 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-11 14:44 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-11 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 10:25 ` Andrea Corallo
2022-02-10 22:50 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-06 0:33 ` Corwin Brust
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