From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: configuring emacs as a programmer's editor Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 22:46:27 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <21222$44a7419c$49f26d6$10582@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: <1151627894.208462.326680@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1151653044.648242.11230@h44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1151684092.236583.270470@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151815239 1395 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2006 04:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 04:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 02 06:40:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fwtl5-0004up-Cr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fwtl4-000346-T3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 66 Original-X-Trace: 2122244a7419ca13a837310582 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140158 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35783 Archived-At: "Ted" wrote in message news:1151684092.236583.270470@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > Le Wang wrote: > > Ted wrote: > > `mode-compile' is missing. You then do a web search and find that it's > > available here: "http://www.tls.cena.fr/~boubaker/Emacs/". You follow > > Thanks all. I found, with a little experimenting, that I didn't need > much of what I thought I needed. > > I am using version 21.3 of emacs, if that matters. > > I didn't find mode-compile.el on my system, and so I downloaded it from > the site you cite above. I tried to byte compile within emacs, as > instructed, but no mode-compile.elc is made. The output I get is: > > Compiling file c:/emacs-21.3/mode-compile.el at Fri Jun 30 11:54:37 > 2006 > !! End of file during parsing > > This looks like an error message, but it doesn't make sense given that > the last line in the file is: > > ;;; mode-compile.el ends here > > This tells me that the file I'm working with has not been truncated. > > Why does byte-compiling this file fail? Is the file on the above site > defective? Is the file available elsewhere? > > Ted > I removed 21 ^L's from the source and the byte-compilation went to completion with the following warnings: Compiling file d:/EMACS/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/mc.el at Sat Jul 01 22:39:21 2006 ** reference to free variable efs-remote-shell-file-name ** `(fboundp (quote eval-when-compile))' called for effect ** `(fboundp (quote eval-when-compile))' called for effect ** The following functions are not known to be defined: console-type, device-type, mc--compile-sav, mc--frame-live-p, mc--select-frame, mc--make-frame, mc--make-frame-visible, mc--raise-frame, byte-compile-buffer, locate-file, mc--member, efs-ftp-path, mc--run-hooks The front matter of the .el looks like this: ;; Last modified: 2003/04/01 13:52:47 ;; Version: 2.28 ;; Keywords: compile, compilation, modes, languages ;; Tested for: ;; XEmacs (Lucid GNU Emacs) >= 19.10 ;; Must work with FSF GNU Emacs > 19.31 ;-) Maybe the smiley face has a tongue in cheek. Ed.