Re: Minor incoveniences

>>>>> "siece" == siece  <[email protected]> writes:

    siece> Greetings all;

    siece> I've encounntered a few annoying problems using the current
    siece> Windows version of Xemacs for which I can find no solution
    siece> in the documentation.  I would like to know a)what is
    siece> currently known about these problems, b)what, if anything,
    siece> is being done about them, and c)if the answer to b) is
    siece> "nothing" where do I sign up to start doing something to
    siece> fix them?

    siece> In no particular order, I am experiencing the three
    siece> following problems:

    siece> When I save a file I've been working with, in addition to
    siece> the save, Xemacs also creates a second file in the same
    siece> directory as the one I'm working with.  This second file is
    siece> identical to the saved file in all respects, except that
    siece> one or two non-alphanumeric characters have been added to
    siece> either or both ends of the filename.  For example, if I
    siece> save the file foo.html, in the same directory I will find
    siece> another file such as #foo.html or foo.html#, and
    siece> occassionally #foo.html#.  The program is less likely to do
    siece> this if there is an existing duplicate, but it still
    siece> happens more often than not.

Issue 1:
Hi siece, these are autosave files.

See also
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/xemacs_17.html#SEC145

This might well start working better once you address issue 2.

All my autosave files live in
~/.autosave
instead of cluttering each single directory I make edits in.

See also
M-x recover-all-files
and
M-x recover-session
before you need this feature first.

See also
http://www.xemacs.org/FAQ/xemacs-faq.html#SEC57

    siece> Second, my installation of Xemacs is on a different
    siece> physical hard drive from my operating system.  When I open
    siece> files, Xemacs becomes annoyed because my preferences have
    siece> not been stored on the same drive as my operating system.
    siece> Because of this, when I first open a non-text file, Xemacs
    siece> will prompt me to do a few things such as type in my email
    siece> address, and then ask if I want to save those settings for
    siece> future sessions.  If I select yes, it tells me that the
    siece> relavent directory doesn't exist, and asks if I want to
    siece> create it.  Saying yes again allows me to work with the
    siece> file, but during the next session, Xemacs is unable to find
    siece> the settings I supposedly saved, and the directory will
    siece> still not exist as far as saving is concerned.

Issue 2:
Set user variable HOME, put your .emacs there, and restart XEmacs.

See
http://www.xemacs.org/FAQ/xemacs-faq.html#SEC274

    siece> Finally, I have set Xemacs to be my default editor for
    siece> viewing the source code in web pages using the right
    siece> click-->frame-->view source option in my web browser.
    siece> While it works, for some reason it insists on opening a new
    siece> copy of Xemacs for every page I look at, rather than using
    siece> the copy already running.  Is there a convenient way to
    siece> convince Xemacs to always use the open copy, rather than
    siece> opening a new copy of Xemacs every time?

Associate these files with winclient, not xemacs.

You should at upgrade to 21.4.11 if you are not using that version yet.

It works quite well on Windows.

Please always specify the exact version of any program you seek help
on.

Current windows version could be interpreted in a number of ways,
unfortuantely.

Hope this helps,

Adrian

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