X-Symbol => Can't save LaTeX files anymore

X-Symbol => Can't save LaTeX files anymore

[Felix E. Klee]

Hi,

today, I installed X-Symbol 4.45 on a SuSE 8.1 system running EMACS 
21.2.1. As far as I can tell the install went almost fine (no x-symbol 
error messages in *Messages* other than the one explained below, and 
displaying symbols works). However, I can't save LaTeX files anymore. 
Here's the error message I get upon hitting C-x C-s:
  x-symbol-write-file-hook: Symbol's function definition is void:
  continue-save-buffer

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Felix

Re: X-Symbol => Can't save LaTeX files anymore

[David Kastrup]

"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> writes:

> today, I installed X-Symbol 4.45 on a SuSE 8.1 system running EMACS 
> 21.2.1. As far as I can tell the install went almost fine (no x-symbol 
> error messages in *Messages* other than the one explained below, and 
> displaying symbols works). However, I can't save LaTeX files anymore. 
> Here's the error message I get upon hitting C-x C-s:
>   x-symbol-write-file-hook: Symbol's function definition is void:
>   continue-save-buffer
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing this?

How about making the life of Christoph Wedler easier by asking with
the help of the
M-x x-symbol-package-bug RET
command?  That will give him some more information, too.

I am sure that this would improve your chances for a competent fix
rather than letting him hunt through Usenet groups for incomplete
information.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: X-Symbol => Can't save LaTeX files anymore

[Felix E. Klee]

Christoph.Wedler@sap.com wrote:
>  > today, I installed X-Symbol 4.45 on a SuSE 8.1 system running EMACS
>  > 21.2.1. As far as I can tell the install went almost fine (no
>  > x-symbol error messages in *Messages* other than the one explained
>  > below, and displaying symbols works). However, I can't save LaTeX
>  > files anymore. Here's the error message I get upon hitting C-x C-s:
>  >   x-symbol-write-file-hook: Symbol's function definition is void:
>  >   continue-save-buffer
> 
>  > Any ideas what might be causing this?
> 
> Oops.  Let me guess: do you also use crypt?  

Crypt++.

> At least on older
> XEmacsen, this package didn't work together with other packages which
> want to do
> something when writing a file (e.g., iso-cvt).  So I provided a
> workaround in XEmacs, but the above function is missing in Emacs (and
> cannot be provided by me, since it needs support by the core function
> `basic-save-buffer')...
> 
> Hm, can you:
> 
>  1. try not to use the workaround, but still use crypt (WARNING: your
>     file might get corrupted with crypt -- that's the test):
> 
>     (setq x-symbol-auto-conversion-method 'fast)

That's too risky.
 
>  2. use jka-compr.el instead crypt.el.

Hm, crypt++ works fine for me. I want to avoid trying out another 
system.

> P.S. David is right, with M-x x-symbol-package-bug, I would KNOW
> whether you use crypt.

Yes, but I haven't configured email support for EMACS. However, I can 
send you the info that gets displayed after executing 
x-symbol-package-bug. I attached it below.

Felix


x-symbol-package-bug info:

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll 
bars)
 of 2002-09-11 on amdsimb
Package: x-symbol 4.4.5

current state:
==============
(setq
 command-line-args '("emacs")
 x-symbol-auto-style-alist nil
 x-symbol-default-coding 'iso-8859-1
 x-symbol-image-converter nil
 features '(sendmail reporter info tabify texmathp reftex-auc 
x-symbol-image quail
            x-symbol-mule x-symbol-vars x-symbol x-symbol-tex reftex-vcr 
reftex-dcr reftex
            reftex-vars preview tex-buf prv-emacs noutline outline 
font-latex latex tex
            easymenu lucid gif png x-symbol-emacs x-symbol-hooks 
x-symbol-autoloads edmacro
            view pc-select tex-site crypt crypt++ crypt+pgp-pub 
jka-compr saveplace jit-lock
            font-lock bbdb-autoloads bbdb ssh tramp regexp-opt shell 
comint ring format-spec
            advice advice-preload easy-mmode completer cl cl-19 redo 
paren mouse-sel
            thingatpt w3-auto url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand 
url-methods url-history
            url-cookie url-util url-parse url-auto timezone url-vars 
mailcap mail-parse
            rfc2045 rfc2047 gnus-util nnheader mail-utils qp rfc2231 
ietf-drums mm-util
            mule-util time-date parse-time mail-prsvr unicode un-data 
mucs mucs-ccl ccl
            trans-util mucs-type mucs-error un-define mule-uni ispell 
tooltip image tool-bar
            mwheel fontset lpr disp-table delsel ediff-hook vc-hooks 
lisp-float-type
            lisp-mode page menu-bar timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse 
facemenu faces
            cus-face frame misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai lao korean 
japanese hebrew greek
            romanian slovak czech european ethiopic devanagari indian 
cyrillic chinese
            case-table help overlay md5 base64 format mule env backquote 
custom widget
            x-toolkit)
)

Re: X-Symbol => Can't save LaTeX files anymore

[Kai Großjohann]

"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> writes:

> Hm, crypt++ works fine for me. I want to avoid trying out another 
> system.

FWIW, I put (auto-compression-mode 1) in my ~/.emacs and then it just
worked.  No additional work required.
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: X-Symbol => Can't save LaTeX files anymore

[Felix E. Klee]

Kai Großjohann wrote:
>> Hm, crypt++ works fine for me. I want to avoid trying out another
>> system.
> 
> FWIW, I put (auto-compression-mode 1) in my ~/.emacs 

I have it in my .emacs as well.

> and then it just worked.  No additional work required.

What works? I don't see what auto-compression-mode has to do with crypt 
or x-symbol.

Felix

Re: X-Symbol => Can't save LaTeX files anymore

[Kai Großjohann]

"Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> writes:

> Kai Großjohann wrote:
>
>>> Hm, crypt++ works fine for me. I want to avoid trying out another
>>> system.
>> 
>> FWIW, I put (auto-compression-mode 1) in my ~/.emacs 
>
> I have it in my .emacs as well.
>
>> and then it just worked.  No additional work required.
>
> What works? I don't see what auto-compression-mode has to do with crypt 
> or x-symbol.

Well, auto-compression-mode is defined in jka-compr.  And C-x C-f
foo.gz RET gunzips the file for convenient viewing.

I think that crypt++ can do gzip-like stuff and it can also do
pgp-like stuff, but jka-compr doesn't do pgp.  So are you using the
encryption functionality of crypt++?  In that case, my remark was
wildly off-target, sorry.

(It could be dangerous to have both jka-compr and crypt++ enabled;
they might be stepping on each other's toes.  But I don't know.)
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.