From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:11:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83r18gz7el.fsf@gnu.org> References: <834k5d3hbv.fsf@gnu.org> <83o83l1v51.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29037"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, corwin@bru.st, emacs-devel@gnu.org, akrl@sdf.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 10:12:31 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nGdax-0007Mg-5r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:12:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45802 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGdav-0003QI-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 04:12:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGdaI-0002gI-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 04:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=53616 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGdaG-0000Ig-2o; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 04:11:48 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=q7efZB7pxFtfavTXi6eofNgvY/TJFnAcI6pA4anGURY=; b=dCMv+0O0S/c2 VuzFc9AooQr+A71ohm5q5BV8xtQ/qFjc/SYn94F6ySTh/YDpnHKL7Kd0udJNtANnVk68A+Hzs/HY1 CyMwxyfH7m/XrIU7qbfGSXd9MjpYUsaTJTjdyzP8y5gNJ6aIxGGaEh4GPBd3uqqxtrEAR7znZNt5R 9fqp2gY8p9fxsiu4KWQUZwp726tfh3ZUiHWK+AOFNhoFMoFsCQ27wofgGMZF5aR1UVoINGHGXTHDx kevQOfAZYAu6cRqBL75y38pbxoB25dTR8F6vnx5/R1fRcYqikcqV+zQUGipQgx3ZfP5SNqTFr4oDk S9miph/iq2kWUf6hrJtRQg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2655 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGdaF-0007WI-JV; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 04:11:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 6 Feb 2022 06:57:57 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285943 Archived-At: > From: Drew Adams > CC: Andrea Corallo , > "H. Dieter Wilhelm" > , > Emacs developers > 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.