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by Etrigan
Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:56 am
Forum: Emacs Lisp
Topic: Old-style backquotes -- not?
Replies: 1
Views: 7094

Old-style backquotes -- not?

I've written a generator for a suite of conditional-compilation macros for platform-specific elisp, like: (compile-on-gnu/linux (&rest forms)) (compile-on-darwin (&rest forms)) and so on. The emacs 22.2 byte-compiler warns that this generator code (below) contains old-style backquotes. But A...
by Etrigan
Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:49 am
Forum: Emacs Lisp
Topic: Custom 'save-a-copy-as' interactive function begins to error
Replies: 2
Views: 9286

Re: Custom 'save-a-copy-as' interactive function begins to error

Hey, G-Brain. Thanks for posting. The issue is not filling the gap in emacs' command set. My code does that. (So does yours) The issue is that my code works fine on emacs 21 and 22, on three different linux distros on three different processor architectures, as well as on MacOS on two different proc...
by Etrigan
Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:15 am
Forum: Emacs Lisp
Topic: Custom 'save-a-copy-as' interactive function begins to error
Replies: 2
Views: 9286

Custom 'save-a-copy-as' interactive function begins to error

I wrote my own 'save-a-copy-as' function (how much does it suck that emacs doesn't ship with one?) which worked great until recently. I don't know what changed -- nothing, I would have said -- but now when I run it on Cygwin emacs 21.x, it errors: find-coding-systems-region: Wrong type argument: int...