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Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:51:58 +0100 |
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gebser@ameritech.net writes:
> Kai Großjohann at 18:30 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said:
>
> I was following the documentation. What would be the way to load a
> *.texi file?
It doesn't make sense to "load" a *.texi file. You can convert it to
info format with M-x texinfo-format-buffer RET or with the external
makeinfo program. (Though the latter doesn't work in this case, of
course...)
After this, you'll have *.info files which you can look at with C-u
C-h i.
Where in the documentation did you find instructions to load the
*.texi files? I couldn't see it. I want to correct it...
> = > Subsequently doing "M-x makeinfo-buffer" yeilds "[No match]".
> =
> = I think it's M-x texinfo-format-buffer RET...
>
> Again, the command I used was directly from the docs.
Got to look at the docs again, to correct them. [time passes] Ah,
found it, and corrected it.
> = Yes, I also guess that the shell prompt wasn't recognized. Lessee
> = now, what is the default value of tramp-shell-prompt-pattern? Hm.
> = It should have matched this prompt.
> =
> = So I'm somewhat confused.
>
> I don't know enough about this even to be confused.... 8\
>
>
> =
> = Could you put (setq tramp-verbose 10) and (setq tramp-debug-buffer t)
> = in ~/.emacs and try again and show me the *tramp/foo* buffer in
> = addition to the *debug tramp/foo* buffer?
> =
> = Also, it would be good to do M-x toggle-debug-on-quit RET before
> = trying, then C-g will give you a backtrace. Please send it, too.
> =
> = Oh, and removing tramp.elc before starting Emacs will give a prettier
> = backtrace.
>
> Did all this. Then tried to open a file on the same machine as before.
> $ # Setting shell prompt
> $ PS1='
> ///»¢ò ;YÖv éü
> '; PS2=''; PS3=''
Now we're talking! It's the bogus md5 invocation. Whee. I believe
this is fixed in the development sources already, so let me put out a
new version.
You could fetch the CVS version to test it, if you like.
> A string in elisp must be some really strange thing.
>
> (add-to-list 'tramp-shell-prompt-pattern "abc")
>
> also gives the same error. It seems that everything and anything I put into
> the third arg is a listp. It's a shame elisp is so obtuse. I'd like to learn
> it so's to do some helpful work on emacs. Several times I've tried to do
> simple things in elisp, following books and tutorials, but never had any
> progress with it. Maybe I need to be dyslexic. :)
In Lisp, a general type is sequence. Lists are one subtype of
sequence, and vectors are another. Strings are vectors of characters.
add-to-list can only add to lists, not to arbitrary sequences.
Does this make sense?
--
A turnip curses Elvis
- Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine, (continued)
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/02/04
Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine,
Kai Großjohann <=