Re: [Emacro-devel] Emacro 2.0.4 beta 2

[Jan B. <jb...@ez...>]

bruce ingalls <bin...@pa...> writes:

> I have checked in to CVS Emacro 2.0.4 Beta 2.
> I will also put it on ftp://ftp.cppsig.org/pub/tools/emacs
> 
> I found a bug, that prevented it from working on a new version of Gnu
> Emacs. It now works on both old & new.
> I also moved programmer.el into the programmer directory.
> 
> I now have hooks, so that you can call doc/index.html from
> XEmacs: Help->Emacro
> Gnu:	Util->Help
> 
> Now Vishy's html documentation work will become part of the development,
> and will directly impact the look of EMacro!
> I hope he joins the developer email list, so I don't need to keep CC'ing
> him.
> 
> In the future, He could also put links back to the sourceforge site, where
> we could do things like encourage users to upgrade, etc. There is much
> room for creativity here.
> 
> I don't have Vishy's last name in Credits.html, but he's doing the docs &
> can fix that.
> 
> Basically, v2.0.4 is ready to roll out. I'm just waiting on a team OK, and
> see where Vishy is with the html. If it's slick enough, I'll bump up the
> release to v2.1

A couple of bugs I found:

1.
The install script tries to mv the wrong file
it tries site-init.el, but the file is called site-start.el

2.
preferences.el is already filled with information(Bruce Ingalls information :) )
so the user won't get asked the first time it's used.

3.
When compiling the .el files it complains about a lot of functions not
being defined.

4.
The check for undefined variables can be improved, it currently
uses string= to check for an empty string, if this is changed to
check for nil instead
(when (not gnus-nntp-server)
and change the defvar to
(defvar gnus-nntp-server nil)	;server name for usenet news (if available)
you can easily supply an empty string when emacs asks you the various questions.
this also goes for other variable types such as
(when (= use-height 0)
to
(when (not use-height)



As a side note I've thinking about an enhancement for C++ mode, I using
the flyspell mode when sending mail and found some of it's features to
be really interesting, such as being able to pop up a menu with the
mouse on words that aren't recognized, the C++ equivalent would be
to warn about dangerous code and wrong style and let the user
change that with some simple mouse clicks, it cleans up the code
and let's the programmer learn something in the process.

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