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[h-e-w] Emacs & SP 2
From: |
Relson, David |
Subject: |
[h-e-w] Emacs & SP 2 |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:00:43 -0400 |
Greetings,
Started a new job recently and, to my delight, found emacs-21.3.1
already installed on the XP SP2 machine, which is almost as good as a
linux box.
However, I soon encountered problems:
1) In "dired" mode, renaming a file causes:
Emacs Abort Dialog"
A fatal error has occurred!
Select Abort to exit, Retry to debug, Ignore to continue
Regardless of which option I use, emacs aborts. Interestingly, when
I restart emacs and check the directory, the rename has been successful.
2) Wanting to edit python code, I've downloaded python-mode.el and added
the following to .emacs:
(autoload 'python-mode "python-mode.el")
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode)
auto-mode-alist))
loading any python file, causes the same "abort" dialog box (as
above).
I've tracked the problem down somewhat. Near the beginning of
python-mode.el is:
(require 'comint)
(require 'custom)
(require 'cl)
(require 'compile)
In *scratch*, I can manually execute the first 2, but executing the
third "(require 'cl)" causes the abort.
Alternatively, I can manually execute the first 2 require
statements in *scratch*, then load cl.el into a buffer and manually
cut/paste/execute each statement using *scratch*. Having done this,
python mode is usable.
Has anybody encountered these problems? Is there a solution?
Thanks
David
- [h-e-w] Emacs & SP 2,
Relson, David <=