From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Marshall Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: clear-string not defined Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:31:05 +0100 Organization: The first against the wall Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064779587 19783 80.91.224.253 (28 Sep 2003 20:06:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 28 22:06:24 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3hoG-0005Yn-00 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:06:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A3hUX-00058G-VZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:46:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news2.telebyte.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news2.euro.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Home-Page: http://www.chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mMd/miBxH4BL4n3VA1gi8Vl9bFs= Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.252.14 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com Original-X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1064777537 213.104.252.14 (Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:32:17 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:32:17 BST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116925 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12851 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12851 On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Robert Marshall wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> >> If you only posted your message out of concern for your reputation, >> then I can't help you. But if you intended to get some help or >> info then it makes more sense to send your message to a place where >> you have a higher chance of reaching people who can answer you. >> > > Well this one looks to be a problem with my setup - or maybe in one > of the packages I've loaded, so I need to track it down a bit before > I can submit a sensible bug report > > After a bit of investigation > > emacs -q > > (setq comint-output-filter-functions > '(comint-watch-for-password-prompt comint-truncate-buffer > comint-postoutput-scroll-to-bottom)) ; my settings for this > no problem > Well it was idiocy on my part - in case anyone cares - or a future googler I had changed my menu which started emacs to run emacs-21.3.50.23 - during some debugging of something else - which is no longer the latest version, so that version didn't have clear-string as a built in, but when I was testing with -q, I was - of course running the up-to-date version Robert -- La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau Boycott the French - stop using ampères! Take me to the world A world that smiles With streets instead of aisles