24.3 status update

24.3 status update

[Glenn Morris]

Everything that I think needs to be fixed for 24.3 has been fixed
(assuming the bug#13546 etc w32 process handling issues have gone away;
we have not heard back yet).

I suggest waiting another week or so, then making a final
pretest/release candidate, then waiting another week or so, then
releasing it (if nothing else comes up in the meantime).

If any objections, please say so.

Re: 24.3 status update

[Lluís]

This brings up an uncolored scratch buffer:

  emacs -q --eval '(global-whitespace-mode t)'

while this brings it up with colors:

  emacs -q --eval '(message "buh")'


This is using Julien's emacs-snapshot 2:20130224-1.


I've also been unable to disable whitespace-mode for a very long time (when
disable, it still shows its highlight colors), but I've been too lazy to fill-in
a bug report.


Thanks,
  Lluis


Glenn Morris writes:

> Everything that I think needs to be fixed for 24.3 has been fixed
> (assuming the bug#13546 etc w32 process handling issues have gone away;
> we have not heard back yet).

> I suggest waiting another week or so, then making a final
> pretest/release candidate, then waiting another week or so, then
> releasing it (if nothing else comes up in the meantime).

> If any objections, please say so.


-- 
 "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn
 something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."
 -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom
 Tollbooth

Re: 24.3 status update

[Glenn Morris]

Lluís wrote:

> This is using Julien's emacs-snapshot 2:20130224-1.

That has no relevance to Emacs 24.3.

Re: 24.3 status update

[Lluís]

Glenn Morris writes:

> Lluís wrote:
>> This is using Julien's emacs-snapshot 2:20130224-1.

> That has no relevance to Emacs 24.3.

You mean that snapshot is past emacs' 24.3 freeze?


Lluis

-- 
 "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn
 something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."
 -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom
 Tollbooth

Re: 24.3 status update

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Lluís.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 09:47:19PM +0100, Lluís wrote:
> This brings up an uncolored scratch buffer:

>   emacs -q --eval '(global-whitespace-mode t)'

I can't reproduce this in the latest emacs-24 branch.

> while this brings it up with colors:

>   emacs -q --eval '(message "buh")'

I believe you.  :-)

> This is using Julien's emacs-snapshot 2:20130224-1.


> I've also been unable to disable whitespace-mode for a very long time (when
> disable, it still shows its highlight colors), but I've been too lazy to fill-in
> a bug report.

I can confirm this bug (in the latest emacs-24 branch).  To reproduce it,
start emacs as the first invocation above.
(i) M-x whitespace-mode doesn't undo GWMode, rather it has no visible
effect aside from adding "ws" to "WS" in the mode line.
(ii) Now M-x global-whitespace-mode simply removes "WS" from the mode
line.
(iii) Now M-x whitespace-mode fails to undo its effect in the window.

This show there's non-standard semantics for
\(global-\)?-whitespace-mode.

> Thanks,
>   Lluis

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: 24.3 status update

[Glenn Morris]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>>   emacs -q --eval '(global-whitespace-mode t)'
>
> I can't reproduce this in the latest emacs-24 branch.

It'll be more fall out from the trunk changes to
define-globalized-minor-mode, so not surprising.

>> I've also been unable to disable whitespace-mode for a very long time
>> (when disable, it still shows its highlight colors), but I've been
>> too lazy to fill-in a bug report.
>
> I can confirm this bug (in the latest emacs-24 branch).  To reproduce it,
> start emacs as the first invocation above.

Non-lazy people have already been filing bugs about this.
Eg 11333, 11353. I doubt these problems are new, so they don't need
investigating right this minute.

> This show there's non-standard semantics for
> \(global-\)?-whitespace-mode.

The whole thing is over-engineered IMO. Eg 12496.

Re: 24.3 status update

[Murilo Opsfelder Araujo]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> Everything that I think needs to be fixed for 24.3 has been fixed
> (assuming the bug#13546 etc w32 process handling issues have gone away;
> we have not heard back yet).
>
> I suggest waiting another week or so, then making a final
> pretest/release candidate, then waiting another week or so, then
> releasing it (if nothing else comes up in the meantime).
>
> If any objections, please say so.
>
Hello Glenn,

This is my first message to this list and I'm not sure if I should
mention the following in this thread.

When I use the latest emacs tarball [1] version 24.2, my zenburn theme
is displayed correctly.  But if I use emacs from git master branch, my
zenburn theme is partially ignored.  In my case, some faces (e.g.
spaces) are ignored in whitespace-mode and org-agenda has no colors.

I built emacs from emacs-24 branch (version 24.2.93.1) and it is
working as expected: zenburn theme is displayed correctly.  There
might be something between branches emacs-24 and master that's causing
this possible issue.

I'd like some advises to know if this could be an emacs issue or
zenburn theme is not prepared for the latest emacs from git master
branch.

Here are the options and parameters I used to build emacs on a RHEL 6 system:

$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
$ cd emacs
$ ./make-dist --snapshot
$ cd `mktemp -d`
$ tar xf /path/to/emacs-24.3.50.tar.gz
$ cd emacs-24.3.50
$ ./configure CFLAGS="-Wall -O3" --prefix=$HOME/opt/emacs
--with-x-toolkit=gtk --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
$ make -j6
$ make -j6 install

Here is my zenburn theme [2].  It is pretty much the same theme
Bozhidar Batsov created for prelude [3] with minor background color
changes.

Thanks in advance.

[1] http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.2.tar.xz
[2] https://github.com/mopsfelder/zenburn-emacs
[3] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

--
Murilo