defvaralias

defvaralias

[largo-linux]

i have emacs from fedora core 4 (version 21.4-5 i believe).  i tried to
install journal.el from the emacswiki page, but it complains that the
function defvaralias is void...  where can i get defvaralias?  or is
there a workaround for this.  it seems that defvaralias just creates a
link between two variables

in the code defvaralias is used once :

(defvaralias 'journal-default-page 'emacs-wiki-default-page)

it would seem that emacs-wiki-default page is set elsewhere and i could
just copy emacs-wiki-default-page to journal-default-page...

(setq 'journal-default-page 'emacs-wiki-default-page) ;; ???

any help greatly appreciated.

Re: defvaralias

[Charles philip Chan]

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On  5 Aug 2005, joelvsmith@earthlink.net wrote:

> in the code defvaralias is used once :

> (defvaralias 'journal-default-page 'emacs-wiki-default-page)


You must first install emacs-wiki-mode: 

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsWikiMode



Charles

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Re: defvaralias

[largo-linux]

i did install emacwiki (i.e. untarred and gunzipped the package and
then put in my .emacs where to find the package and require the
package)...

in fact in my first work around taken from someone's post i simply
blanked out defvaralias but when it tried to save the default page it
returned a wrong argument error.

Re: defvaralias

[Charles philip Chan]

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On  5 Aug 2005, joelvsmith@earthlink.net wrote:

> i did install emacwiki (i.e. untarred and gunzipped the package and
> then put in my .emacs where to find the package and require the
> package)...

What is the ouput of C-hv emacs-wiki-default-page? It should return
WelcomePage, if emacs-wiki is setup properly. Does your Wiki directory
exist? Have you customized it? You can use customize-group: the group
name is emacs-wiki.

> in fact in my first work around taken from someone's post i simply
> blanked out defvaralias but when it tried to save the default page it
> returned a wrong argument error.

The problem is somewhere else since there is no way your copy of emacs
doesn't have defvaralias because it is a built in function:

,----[ defvaralias ]
| defvaralias is a built-in function in `C source code'.
| (defvaralias NEW-ALIAS BASE-VARIABLE &optional DOCSTRING)
| 
| Make NEW-ALIAS a variable alias for symbol BASE-VARIABLE.  Setting the
| value of NEW-ALIAS will subsequently set the value of BASE-VARIABLE, and
| getting the value of NEW-ALIAS will return the value BASE-VARIABLE has.
| Third arg DOCSTRING, if non-nil, is documentation for NEW-ALIAS.  If it
| is omitted or nil, NEW-ALIAS gets the documentation string of
| BASE-VARIABLE, or of the variable at the end of the chain of aliases, if
| BASE-VARIABLE is itself an alias.  The return value is BASE-VARIABLE.
`----

Charles

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Re: defvaralias

[largo-linux]

thanks for your response.  here is what i get when i (require 'journal)

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function defvaralias)
  (defvaralias (quote journal-default-page) (quote
emacs-wiki-default-page))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "journal" nil t)
  load-with-code-conversion("/scratch/emacs-wiki-2.70/journal.el"
"journal" nil t)
  require(journal)
  eval((require (quote journal)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
* call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

also c-h n (search for defvaralias yields nothing)...  emacs-version ==
2.4.1

Re: defvaralias

[largo-linux]

forgot to say that welcomepage is 'emacs-wiki-default-page.  i also hit
M-x customize-group emacs-wiki.  i looked at some things but i didn't
change anything...  i didn't compile emacs-wiki, because it was
optional...

Re: defvaralias

[Charles philip Chan]

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On  5 Aug 2005, joelvsmith@earthlink.net wrote:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function defvaralias)
> (defvaralias (quote journal-default-page) (quote
> emacs-wiki-default-page))
> eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "journal" nil t)
> load-with-code-conversion("/scratch/emacs-wiki-2.70/journal.el"
> "journal" nil t)
> require(journal)
> eval((require (quote journal)))
> eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
> eval-last-sexp(nil)
> * call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

I will look at this further. Did you require emacs-wiki before journal?

> also c-h n (search for defvaralias yields nothing)...

Huh, C-h n is for showing what is new in Emacs. Try:

C-h f defvaralias

Also, what is returned when you do:

C-h v emacs-wiki-default-page

> emacs-version == 2.4.1

There is no such version. What does it say when you go to "Help" ==>
"About Emacs"?

Charles

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Re: defvaralias

[largo-linux]

I have the following in my .emacs

(add-to-list 'load-path "/scratch/emacs-wiki-2.70")
(require 'emacs-wiki)

i read somewhere that in the NEWS (C-h n) defvaralias has an entry...
C-h f defvaralias --> no entry

C-h v emacs-wiki-default-page
emacs-wiki-default-page's value is "WelcomePage"

Documentation:
Name of the default page used by M-x emacs-wiki-find-file.
This is also used to resolve a link to a project that has no Wiki
page specified.

You can customize this variable.

Defined in `emacs-wiki'.

i don't see an "about emacs" in "help"  but there is an "emacs version"
it returns

GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2005-05-18 on decompose.build.redhat.com

thank you.

Re: defvaralias

[Charles philip Chan]

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On  5 Aug 2005, joelvsmith@earthlink.net wrote:

> i read somewhere that in the NEWS (C-h n) defvaralias has an entry...
> C-h f defvaralias --> no entry

I see what you mean now.

> GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> of 2005-05-18 on decompose.build.redhat.com

This is really strange because according to my research defvaralias was
introduced in Emacs 21.4 (there must be something screwy with the
Redhat's build). You have 2 choices:

(1) Upgrade your Emacs.

(2) Ask your question on the emacs-wiki list:
    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsWikiMailingList

    I am sure someone can help you there.

Charles

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Re: defvaralias

[Tim X]

"Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca> writes:

> 
> > i read somewhere that in the NEWS (C-h n) defvaralias has an entry...
> > C-h f defvaralias --> no entry
> 
> I see what you mean now.
> 
> > GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
> > of 2005-05-18 on decompose.build.redhat.com
> 
> This is really strange because according to my research defvaralias was
> introduced in Emacs 21.4 (there must be something screwy with the
> Redhat's build). You have 2 choices:
> 
> (1) Upgrade your Emacs.
> 
> (2) Ask your question on the emacs-wiki list:
>     http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsWikiMailingList
> 
>     I am sure someone can help you there.
> 

I'm running emacs 21.4.1 on debian and there is no defvaralias defined
and no mention of it in the News file either. As I understand it, the
only difference between 21.3 and 21.4 was a security patch - no ew
features werre introduced.

Tim
 

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