From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:15:59 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6b68b70e-7c1a-4a5e-9cda-bad3247043eb@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <76fcf833-ad89-44f2-b227-e18295317ca2@p13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com><3c82f009-0676-4e26-bd58-d6b8c1921935@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <8b86b73e-7084-4ca9-b075-a664468b0510@a5g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236030597 12172 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2009 21:49:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:49:57 +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 Mar 02 22:51:07 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 1LeG2H-0003YR-Gm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:50:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeG0w-0002Ue-Dv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:49:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236028559 32662 127.0.0.1 (2 Mar 2009 21:15:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167234 comp.emacs:97906 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:45:47 -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:62533 On Mar 2, 1:09 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > On Mar 2, 7:50 am, "Drew Adams" 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 =E2=80=9CPp^L ^L String Pre=E2=80=9D section. Change the val= ue 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 > " =E2=80=A2") > '(pretty-control-l-mode t) > ) > > However, refresh or restarting emacs it still displays =E2=80=9CSection > (Printable Page)=E2=80=9D. > > 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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84