From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:13:27 +0200 Message-ID: <85r6padozc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <2cd46e7f0705101124r72000f78xdf05d18ca815ca57@mail.gmail.com> <17991.47259.210100.801472@localhost.localdomain> <85d50wq6a9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179771225 9543 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 18:13:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 18:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tromey@redhat.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 20:13:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqCO2-0003Ug-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:13:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCO1-0007UW-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCNx-0007Tt-KK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCNw-0007TQ-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqCNv-0007TN-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-12.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqCNv-00028m-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.28]) by mail-in-12.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFE364385; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:13:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73569347468; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:13:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-080-217.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.80.217]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2C92C29E6; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:13:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 249C71C4CE33; Mon, 21 May 2007 20:13:27 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Tom Tromey's message of "Mon\, 21 May 2007 11\:40\:57 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71538 Archived-At: Tom Tromey writes: > David> *scratch* is not guaranteed to be in emacs-lisp-mode. So C-j might > David> not work. M-x eval-region would! > > I wasn't aware of this. Is this a common situation? Those > instructions are intended for people who know very little about > Emacs; are they likely to have changed the mode for *scratch*? Primarily people with little knowledge about Emacs would be tempted to change the mode for *scratch*... On the other hand, they would be likely to do a lot of other things one can't possibly guess in advance. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum