From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:15:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b68b70e-7c1a-4a5e-9cda-bad3247043eb@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c2d59120-51be-4010-bce9-111168944868@a5g2000pre.googlegroups.com
On Mar 2, 1:09 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 2, 7:50 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > > Description:http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PrettyControlL
> Hi Drew,
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> It did help. It did help. However, for some reason i'm still getting
> problems.
>
> Reproduction steps:
>
> 1. M-x customize-group , Pretty-Control-L
> 2. scroll to “Pp^L ^L String Pre” section. Change the value there to
> 60 spaces.
> 3. Uncheck the box. Check the underline. Color maroon.
> 4. Click Save for future session above.
> 5. Now, the .emacs shows the following:
>
> (custom-set-faces
> ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
> '(completions-first-difference ((t (:inherit bold :foreground
> "red"))))
> '(pp^L-highlight ((((type x w32 mac graphic) (class color))
> (:underline "maroon"))))
> '(show-paren-match ((((class color) (background light)) (:background
> "azure2")))))
>
> (custom-set-variables
> ;...
> '(pp^L-^L-string
> " •")
> '(pretty-control-l-mode t)
> )
>
> However, refresh or restarting emacs it still displays “Section
> (Printable Page)”.
>
> This is tested on Carbon emacs and X11 emacs with gtk. Both version
> 22.x, on the mac.
Sorry, never mind.
It appears, that i have to either put (refresh-pretty-control-l)
before (pretty-control-l-mode t), or load the mode in the end.
Thanks.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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2009-02-23 19:14 ` usability problem of emacs describe-mode Zachary Kline
2009-02-23 21:48 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-23 19:27 ` Andreas Politz
2009-02-24 20:36 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-24 23:22 ` Andreas Politz
2009-02-25 19:11 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-23 19:49 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-02-23 21:35 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-24 17:41 ` B. T. Raven
2009-02-24 20:32 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-24 22:48 ` B. T. Raven
2009-02-24 23:31 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-25 8:11 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-02-25 9:17 ` cmr.Pent
2009-02-25 12:11 ` Sébastien Vauban
2009-02-25 12:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-02-25 12:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-02-25 15:04 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1767.1235574258.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-25 19:30 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-25 19:50 ` Teemu Likonen
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2009-02-26 19:33 ` Improving Emacs (was: usability problem of emacs describe-mode) Teemu Likonen
2009-03-01 23:34 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 5:57 ` Improving Emacs Teemu Likonen
2009-02-26 18:24 ` usability problem of emacs describe-mode Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1878.1235672676.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-27 2:21 ` Giorgos Keramidas
[not found] ` <fbf7d92c-ae58-4d1b-83b6-d292df8e95a4@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com>
2009-02-27 8:44 ` cmr.Pent
2009-02-27 9:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-02-27 9:46 ` David Kastrup
2009-02-27 15:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-02-27 20:34 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-27 21:32 ` David Kastrup
2009-02-27 22:24 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-27 23:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-02-28 0:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-02-28 8:57 ` Xah Lee
2009-02-28 15:47 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2089.1235836078.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-02 1:46 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 15:50 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2216.1236009036.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-02 21:09 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 21:15 ` Xah Lee [this message]
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2009-02-25 19:13 ` Xah Lee
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