From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: configuring emacs as a programmer's editor Date: 30 Jun 2006 09:14:52 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1151684092.236583.270470@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1151627894.208462.326680@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1151653044.648242.11230@h44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151685638 31823 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2006 16:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 30 18:40:32 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 1FwM2Y-00059P-Je for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwM2X-0007XO-OT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:40:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.198.217.178 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1151684097 15126 127.0.0.1 (30 Jun 2006 16:14:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:14:57 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1151653044.648242.11230@h44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.198.217.178; posting-account=m2jOVg0AAABhOi546jDXstV6XBpf3YTy Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140139 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:35764 Archived-At: 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