[1029] in athena10
Re: emacs cosmetic changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sat Jan 31 19:05:59 2009
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:04:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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Okay, I committed a change removing these options:
>>>> (setq mouse-yank-at-point t)
>>>> (blink-cursor-mode 0)
>>>> (setq inhibit-local-variables t)
>>>> (setq initial-major-mode =E2=80=A6)
>>>> (setq initial-scratch-message =E2=80=A6)
>>>> (setq bug-gnu-emacs "bugs@mit.edu")
>>>> (setq mail-host-address "mit.edu")
As discussed previously (note that the mail-host-address option is no=20
longer necessary due to my recent dotfiles changes setting a default=20
$EMAIL; some more detail below).
> (setq tex-dvi-print-command "dvips")
>
> We should report the bad default for tex-dvi-print-command in Debian,
> expecting that it's probably an Emacs bug but the Debian Emacs
> maintainer can figure out how to report it effectively. Then we can
> change the comment to point to the BTS bug and remove it someday when
> it's fixed.
The option actually _does_ exist in lprng (it's a deprecated option,=20
however; see the lpr man page for details). I don't think that this=20
really influences the fact that defaulting to it is wrong, but I thought=20
I'd mention it in case I'm not the person to file the bug report. Also,=20
the default action of "dvips" on Debian/Ubuntu is to generate a postscript=
=20
file; so we'll want something like:
(setq tex-dvi-print-command "dvips -f * -o | lpr")
(* substitutes the .dvi filename). When I try this, however, error output=
=20
comes out on the printer.
> Anders and Geoff suggested customizing mail-host-address properly for
> all applications, not only Emacs, which would be an improvement.
> Anders also suggested conditioning mail-host-address on
> DEBATHENA_HOME_TYPE=3Dafs.
I've done this by adding it to the system dotfiles; this automatically=20
conditions it on DEBATHENA_HOME_TYPE=3Dafs since only AFS users will be=20
loading the system dotfiles in /usr/lib/init.
=09-Tim Abbott
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