emacs 23 and x-symbol

emacs 23 and x-symbol

[Andreas Klein]

Hello.

I hope this is right news group I have problems with x-symbol package 
under emcs 23. (Yes I know that x-symbol is rather old.)

The problem seams to be that x-symbol uses simple strings to do the font 
selection and the emacs 23 font selection function expect some font 
object. Does any one know a bug fix?

I am not an expert in emacs lisp. Can any one give me a some link 
to exlanations what was changed in the font selction scheme of emacs? A 
tip how I could get emacs to give me a more precise error messages? I even 
dont get a line number.

Thank you for your help
 	Andreas Klein

Re: emacs 23 and x-symbol

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.11.2009 um 12:06 schrieb Andreas Klein:

> Does any one know a bug fix?


Yes. Don't use it in GNU Emacs 23. GNU Emacs 23 can display all  
Unicode characters. It might become necessary to create a fontset...

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Re: emacs 23 and x-symbol

[Andreas Klein]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Yes. Don't use it in GNU Emacs 23. GNU Emacs 23 can display all Unicode 
> characters. It might become necessary to create a fontset...

That does not help me. I use X-Symbol not for displaying exotic 
characters, but for the input helps in TeX and for the nice feater that I see all the 
exotic charaters, but the TeX-file contains only ASCII. I have found no 
good replacement for that in other packages.

For the moment I stay with Emacs 22.

Best wishes
 	Andreas Klein

Re: emacs 23 and x-symbol

[David Kastrup]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 03.11.2009 um 12:06 schrieb Andreas Klein:
>
>> Does any one know a bug fix?
>
>
> Yes. Don't use it in GNU Emacs 23. GNU Emacs 23 can display all
> Unicode characters. It might become necessary to create a fontset...

x-symbol is much more than character display.  It contains elaborate
input methods/menus, conversion on read/write also for latin1 characters
and a few other things.  The main permanent productivity advantage
really is the input method thingy.  There have been feature requests by
users to its author about getting those input methods without the actual
conversion and display.

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David Kastrup