Problem with the signature in 21.3

Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Peter Wu]

I installed 21.3 just now and found that the signature does not work. See
the output below.

How to fix. I'm running Emacs 21.3 on Windows XP. Thanks.

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'$HOME' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:

> I installed 21.3 just now and found that the signature does not work. See
> the output below.
>
> How to fix. I'm running Emacs 21.3 on Windows XP. Thanks.

Please show us "the signature".  I'm sure you have configured it
somehow -- the default is not to print a signature at all, AFAIK.

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file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)

Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Peter Wu]

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In article <847k9he3z9.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>, Kai
Großjohann wrote:

> Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> I installed 21.3 just now and found that the signature does not work.
>> See the output below.
>>
>> How to fix. I'm running Emacs 21.3 on Windows XP. Thanks.
>
> Please show us "the signature".  I'm sure you have configured it
> somehow -- the default is not to print a signature at all, AFAIK.

The ~/.signature is show below.

-- 
Cheers, Peter

Any problem with this signature? XEmacs 21.4.11 works perfectly with it
for months.

Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Kai Großjohann]

"Peter Wu" <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> The ~/.signature is show below.

I mean, what did you do to configure the signature?  Did you just edit
a file ~/.signature, or did you configure anything in Emacs or Gnus?
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file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)

Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Peter Wu]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:

    Kai> "Peter Wu" <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
    >> The ~/.signature is show below.

    Kai> I mean, what did you do to configure the signature?  Did you just edit
    Kai> a file ~/.signature, or did you configure anything in Emacs or
Gnus?

In fact, I put nothing related to .signature in .emacs file.

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Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Peter Wu]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:
  Kai> "Peter Wu" <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:
  >>> The ~/.signature is show below.

  Kai> I mean, what did you do to configure the signature?  Did you just
  Kai> edit a file ~/.signature, or did you configure anything in Emacs or
  Peter> Gnus?

  Peter> In fact, I put nothing related to .signature in .emacs file.

Installed 0.19 and the problem persists.... :(

  Peter> -- Peter Wu Powered by Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

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Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:

> Installed 0.19 and the problem persists.... :(

Very weird.  Hm.  Is there a beep or anything that might indicate an
error message?

What are the values of the variables message-signature and
message-signature-file?  Use C-h v to find out.
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file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)

Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Peter Wu]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:

  Kai> Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:
  >> Installed 0.19 and the problem persists.... :(

  Kai> Very weird.  Hm.  Is there a beep or anything that might indicate
  Kai> an error message?

Still not working well with the signature. 

Last time it worked but it fails this time. I don't know what's happened.

  Kai> What are the values of the variables message-signature and

message-signature's value is 
(lambda nil
  (shell-command-to-string "$HOME/.signature"))


Documentation:
*String to be inserted at the end of the message buffer.
If t, the `message-signature-file' file will be inserted instead.
If a function, the result from the function will be used instead.
If a form, the result from the form will be used instead.

You can customize this variable.

Defined in `message'.

  Kai> message-signature-file?  Use C-h v to find out. 

message-signature-file's value is "~/.signature"

Documentation:
*Name of file containing the text inserted at end of message buffer.
Ignored if the named file doesn't exist.
If nil, don't insert a signature.

You can customize this variable.

Defined in `message'.

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'$HOME' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
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Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[David Kastrup]

Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:
> 
>   Kai> Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:
>   >> Installed 0.19 and the problem persists.... :(
> 
>   Kai> Very weird.  Hm.  Is there a beep or anything that might indicate
>   Kai> an error message?
> 
> Still not working well with the signature. 
> 
> Last time it worked but it fails this time. I don't know what's happened.
> 
>   Kai> What are the values of the variables message-signature and
> 
> message-signature's value is 
> (lambda nil
>   (shell-command-to-string "$HOME/.signature"))
> 
> Documentation:
> *String to be inserted at the end of the message buffer.
> If t, the `message-signature-file' file will be inserted instead.
> If a function, the result from the function will be used instead.
> If a form, the result from the form will be used instead.

Uh, you know what "shell-command-to-string" does?  This means that
the shell will run the command
$HOME/.signature
and the output of running this command (which needs to be an
executable, then) will then be the signature that gets inserted into
your message.

I somehow doubt that $HOME/.signature _is_ an executable command for
you.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:

> message-signature's value is 
> (lambda nil
>   (shell-command-to-string "$HOME/.signature"))

That looks like a strange value.  It tries to call $HOME/.signature as
a program and then uses the output of that program.  I guess that
$HOME/.signature is not a program on your system.

How about this:

(setq message-signature nil
      message-signature-file "~/.signature")

This also happens to be the default.

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file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)

Re: Problem with the signature in 21.3

[Peter Wu]

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In article <844r4gvyfc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>, Kai
Großjohann wrote:

> Peter Wu <peterw@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> message-signature's value is
>> (lambda nil
>>   (shell-command-to-string "$HOME/.signature"))
>
> That looks like a strange value.  It tries to call $HOME/.signature as
> a program and then uses the output of that program.  I guess that
> $HOME/.signature is not a program on your system.
>
> How about this:
>
> (setq message-signature nil
>       message-signature-file "~/.signature")
>
> This also happens to be the default.

Thanks. This cures the problem. :)


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Peter Wu
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