X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AFD7BAB.2000007@cs.umass.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:30:51 -0500 From: Eliot Moss User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs 23.1.1 macro behavior and name completion References: <3185EFAF9C8F7B4E9DBDF56829BF7C7807266E@srv060ex01.ssd.fsi.com> <4AFD790C.2010009@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <4AFD790C.2010009@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/13/2009 9:57 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: >> Emacs 23.1.1 (Cygwin 1.7) stores spaces literally inside emacs macros >> instead of using the space as a name completion command. In the >> older emacs (Cygwin 1.5) this is not the case. The stored macro >> behaved exactly like the keystrokes were originally typed >> interactively. Is this a "feature" of the new emacs? Does this emacs >> version do the same thing on a native Linux PC? i.e., does this have > > anything to do with Cygwin itself? > > This almost certainly has nothing to do with cygwin. There have been > many changes in emacs since version 21 (which you were using before), > including changes in how completion is done and changes involving > keyboard macros. Use the help and info facilities within emacs, or > browse the NEWS files in /usr/share/emacs/23.1/etc/. Further questions > on this should go to one of the emacs lists unless you find evidence > that the issue is related to cygwin. > > Ken However! Given the various issues people have seen around the setting of LANG and the cygwin 1.7 changes in handling locale, I would also recommend looking into that. Try setting LANG=C and comparing with LANG=C.UTF-8 and LANG=en_US.UTF8 ... Ken is probably right, but this is easy to check. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple