... Combs) wrote: PS: glancing through the cygwin user-guide, I saw a bunch of stuff about having to use the mount command for something. (Yes, I'll end up studying it), but quickly, maybe, what's that all about? Is *that* how I'll get access to the *entire* of the C-disk, or something?) IIRC, the C drive should already be mounted to /cygdrive/c/. But I don't know why ^ wouldn't work... regards, Nikolaj Schumacher

Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes: netawater <netstandin-003@yahoo.com.cn> wrote: I do not want to interactive call a function but call it like pressing ... might not work. Because if you bind your function to tab, you might be unable to retrieve the original binding. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher Thank you for pointing my error, :) I have bind tab's function to ^C^t before bind this function to TAB. Thanks...

... to do something like thas (defun do-what-backspace-does () (interactive) (call-interactively (key-binding "\C-?"))) my aim is to binding a funtion to tab key in every mode: if cursor is at the end of word then call M-TAB's function, else call TAB's function. This, however, might not work. Because if you bind your function to tab, you might be unable to retrieve the original binding. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher

Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> wrote: On Sep 19, 9:13 am, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote: We just call them (scratch) buffers. They provide all the same featuresXah's"untitled files" do. Really, the only differences... the scratch buffer). The scratch buffer itself isn't a usability problem. It's limitations are. So, if anything, you're improving the scratch buffer not scrapping it. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher

Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> writes: On Sep 19, 9:13 am, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote: We just call them (scratch) buffers. They provide all the same featuresXah's"untitled files" do. Really, the only differences are nomenclature, the way of creating them and the fact that one exists by default. That's not the only differences. I have given detail on other differences. Quote from my article: ...

On Sep 19, 9:13 am, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote: We just call them (scratch) buffers. They provide all the same featuresXah's"untitled files" do. Really, the only differences are nomenclature, the way of creating them and the fact that one exists by default. That's not the only differences. I have given detail on other differences. Quote from my article: http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_scratch_buffer....

Nikolaj Schumacher пишет: Incidentally, if anything, testing for t is more correct. :) The doc for `y-or-n-p' clearly states, it will return t for "yes". It could be extended to return 'cancel without changing the interface. Using any non-nil value as "yes" is indeed an assumption. (Not that it's likely to break, or that I haven't made that assumption myself...) Thanks, yes for some functions there may by side effect ...

... merit in distinguishing between those two names. Oh, BTW emacs really is ment for people who know what they want to do and those people do not create untitled files Yes, we do. We just call them (scratch) buffers. They provide all the same features Xah's "untitled files" do. Really, the only differences are nomenclature, the way of creating them and the fact that one exists by default. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher

... intro. The yes-or-no-p thing was just an additional note. Incidentally, if anything, testing for t is more correct. :) The doc for `y-or-n-p' clearly states, it will return t for "yes". It could be extended to return 'cancel without changing the interface. Using any non-nil value as "yes" is indeed an assumption. (Not that it's likely to break, or that I haven't made that assumption myself...) regards, Nikolaj Schumacher

...-no-properties 1) t))))) My suggestion is to make Emacs call a function each time a character is inserted into buffer `pre-abbrev-expand-hook' is only called at the end of words, which might even be better. `after-change-functions' is called after every character. If any one is interested in using this add-ons I will gladly send it to you. I hope you'll release it eventually, though. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher