From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: whitespace Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:55:32 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <506035d5-44e7-4796-b411-5725ed692d74@g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> References: <81f8a67e-18a7-4103-9320-0818a2f84fdd@p36g2000prp.googlegroups.com> <871vuqujsj.fsf@iki.fi> <2fe08717-ce9c-4345-8c97-7c7bc7dbcc8d@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <87wscit3u7.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232994882 17397 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2009 18:34:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:34:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 26 19:35:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRWIY-0002br-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:35:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRWHF-0000M2-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:33:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.90.221.101 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232988932 8518 127.0.0.1 (26 Jan 2009 16:55:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.90.221.101; posting-account=GUU4aAoAAADDW-1QNJvzJkNSBV9h7BAT User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 meteor:8080 (IWSS) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166337 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:13:06 -0500 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:61660 Archived-At: On Jan 26, 6:44=A0pm, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Tomer (2009-01-26 08:28 -0800) wrote: > > > I followed your steps, but still to no avail. > > After I type "M-x whitespace-mode", I get the following error: > > Loading /home/tomer/elisp/whitespace.el (source)... > > load-with-code-conversion: Symbol's value as variable is void: > DOCTYPE > > Your whitespace.el contains some html code. That's where the " came from. You need to download the lisp-only file, not the html page. > It's probably not your fault, at least I remember having similar > problems with Emacswiki a couple of times. > > Anyway, load the whitespace.el from page > > =A0 =A0http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/whitespace.el > > and use the "Download" link with "Save Link As..." in your browser. That > should work. Thanks a lot - I should have checked the file's content to starts with... The "Save Link As..." trick didn't work though, so I just copy and pasted the code to a new file. Cheers!