... 2008, ChristopherL wrote: GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.... had before I upgraded to 22.3 (and I wasn't ...'s the official one from GNU, I believe. Nothing weird that ... running C:\path\to\your\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe -Q ...and ... as before. This will run Emacs with absolutely no add-ons ...Emacs 22.2, and my file edits retain whitespace and blank...get a new copy of Emacs (22.3 came out last...

On Sep 11, 9:10 am, Charles Sebold <cseb...@gmail.com> wrote: Are you using the EmacsW32 distribution of Emacs? GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE What about any directories called site-lisp?  Anything there that might match what Bernardo was talking about? There are site-lisp folder,s but ...

it was a dark and stormy night when ChristopherL said, Hello, When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What can I do to prevent the loss of the blank characters? 'delete-trailing-whitespace' function has the effect you describe; check if it's ...

...at 5:21 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote: ChristopherL <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes: Hello, When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What ... whatever stuff you put into your .emacs file in order to get this... rule never to put anything into .emacs that you have not understood, regardless...

...aol.com> writes: Hello, When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What can... to prevent the loss of the blank characters? Disable whatever stuff you put into your .emacs file in order to get this behavior.... good rule never to put anything into .emacs that you have not understood, regardless what...

Hello, When I overwrite a character in a file containing blank characters at the end my lines, Emacs takes them away on save! What can I do to prevent the loss of the blank characters? Thank you, Chris

... (PDT) On Sep 11, 11:48 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: When did you last try a file name that begins with a...I can not create a folder or a text file with a leading dot character. You tried with Windows Explorer, no doubt, since this is about the only program left that has this limitation. Try this in Emacs, and you will see it will work. Even from a command prompt it ...

...aol.com> writes: On Sep 11, 11:48 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: When did you last try a file name that begins with a ...I can not create a folder or a text file with a leading dot character. Well, you can, but IIRC not from the "windows desktop". It's definitely possible to create a .emacs file from emacs, for example, but most programs that let you type a filename directly...

On 11 Sep 2008, ChristopherL wrote: That fixed my problem. I should add, you have a .emacs file someplace now. (Or an _emacs, or something like that.) Using customize will create one. Just for future reference. -- Charles Sebold 11th of September, 2008

On Sep 11, 12:19 pm, Charles Sebold <cseb...@gmail.com> wrote: Do this, in a normal emacs session (not a -Q one): M-x customize-variable RET ada-clean-buffer-before-saving RET Toggle that off and save it. That fixed my problem. Thanks from the bottom of my heart, Chris