Can't save enhanced characters

Can't save enhanced characters

[Hugh Kieffer]

Copy and paste (into emacs) of the compiler output to monitor  has
bold lead and trail single quotes. When I try to save the emacs file,
is produces:

Symbol's function definition is void: show-temp-buffer-in-current-frame

and will not save. I get this error with any "enhanced" character in
the buffer acquired by a paste, but not with boldface characters
in a .tex buffer using \textbf{}.   What is the cure for this?


My version is:
GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d 
scroolbars) of 2008-06-14 on builder6.centos.org



Hugh H. Kieffer   hkieffer@charter.net

Re: Can't save enhanced characters

[tomas]

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:35:51AM -0800, Hugh Kieffer wrote:
> Copy and paste (into emacs) of the compiler output to monitor  has
> bold lead and trail single quotes. When I try to save the emacs file,
> is produces:
>
> Symbol's function definition is void: show-temp-buffer-in-current-frame

Looks like a bug. I think Emacs is trying to tell you something and
falls over. Anyway, "my" Emacs doesn't know this function (I'm on
23.1.91), so chances are that it belongs to some external package.

> and will not save. I get this error with any "enhanced" character in
> the buffer acquired by a paste, but not with boldface characters
> in a .tex buffer using \textbf{}.   What is the cure for this?

It might be that Emacs is trying to ask you which encoding to use to
save this file (maybe the current encoding can't represent this
"enhanced" character. Try to set the encoding yourself (e.g. to utf-8
would be a safe bet) before saving -- e.g. via C-x RET f (or via
menu->Options -> Mule (Multilingual Environment) -> Set Coding Systems
    ->For Saving This Buffer

(Maybe your version doesn't have a "For Saving This Buffer" entry. But
it surely has a "For Next Command" entry: use this then and save
immediately after this).

Does this help?

To find out where the offending call is, you might try to switch on
debugging (M-x toggle-debug-on-error) before triggering the error.

Regards
- -- tomás
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