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XEmacs is fork of GNU Emacs, providing much of the same functionality. XEmacs development is stagnant.

XEmacs is a fork of GNU Emacs, created in the late 1980's with an emphasis on incorporating "modern" editor capabilities (colors, images, menus, etc.). Most of the functionality originally available in XEmacs is now available in GNU Emacs, and development of XEmacs appears relatively stagnant.

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How to make parenthesis matching work in XEmacs?

I tried using all options in the menu setting Options|Display|Paren Highlighting, but nothing works - no parenthesis match is performed. I also tried setting explicitly (paren-mode 'blink-paren t) in my init file, but that did not help either. Any…
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emacs c++ indentation and color highlighting

I am not getting indentation or colors when I open a cpp/h file with my emacs/xemacs installation on windows. Could you please advise what I need to do in my settings file to make this happen? Thanks
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how to get SQL-postgres to work in XEmacs 21.4.22 on windows vista

I've previously used sql-oracle just fine in Xemacs on XP and vista. However, now I'm using Postgresql psql on the command line but I kinda find it lame (as compared to using sql-* from within emacs) So, I'm trying to get it(psql) working within…
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show revision diff using psvn

Is there a way to diff two arbitrary revisions in psvn? I'd like to have possibility to get diff/ediff for a file in the svn-status window. I only found svn-file-show-svn-diff which shows diff between a working copy and HEAD
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Why is XEmacs refusing to automatically syntax-highlight a specific .pl file?

I edited a perl script recently and since the edits, XEmacs refuses to do the cperl-mode syntax highlighting automatically. I have been able to force the buffer to do the syntax highlighting in 2 different ways: by selecting Options->Syntax…
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How to configure xemacs to recognize database specified in .sql-mode?

I am running xemacs with a .sql-mode file containing the following: 1 (setq sql-association-alist 2 '( 3 ("XDBST (mis4) " ("XDBST" "xsius" "password")) 4 ("dev " ("DEVTVAL1" "xsi" "password"…
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loading auctex in xemacs

I'm having problem with auctex in xemacs (I think). I get this error when I run load *.tex file in xemacs: (1) (custom/warning) custom: widget custom-variable, option LaTeX-section-hook has no associated group Here's the part of my init.el that's…
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Unable to get xemacs working on a mac

I installed xemacs using macports, and then when I try to open it I see this - $xemacs Error: Shell widget xemacs has zero width and/or height I tried to google for this error message, but there were no helpful hits. How can I get xemacs to start…
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Xemacs open-rectangle without tabs

I would like to use the command open-rectangle (C-x r o) with it only adding spaces. It seems once I exceed a certain number of spaces at the beginning of a line, it generates a tab instead. For example: **With 2 spaces highlighted it moves 2 spaces…
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XEmacs setting the indent mode for if else statements

I want to set up the indentation for if-else statements to be 4 spaces. I have defined in my xemacs setup file (add-hook 'c-mode-hook (function (lambda() (setq c-if-indent 4) ))) And I also have (setq-default tab-width…
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Xemacs Custom Syntax Highlighting

I have some .el files that my professor had created for a VM Linux machine that he gave us. I have just installed Linux on an older laptop and I installed XEmacs on it. However I'm having trouble with XEmacs using the .el files. It won't add any…
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xemacs gdb cleanups.c:264: internal-error: restore_my_cleanups: Assertion '*pmy_chain == SENTINEL_CLEANUP' failed

I tried running GDB, version 7.6.50.20130508-cvs (cygwin-special), on Xemacs version 21.4.21 but I get the following error: /netrel/src/gdb-7.6.50-2/gdb/cleanups.c:264: internal-error: restore_my_cleanups: Assertion '*pmy_chain == SENTINEL_CLEANUP'…
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xemacs kill-matching-buffers or sort/filter *buffer list*

In xemacs, how do I kill buffers matching a certain pattern? I tried "kill-matching-buffers", but my xemacs doesn't appear to have that. What .el/.elc file do I need to load/eval-buffer to get this function? I'd also settle for a way to sort of…
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What is "[+]" in xemacs regular expression?

In (my) XEmacs 21.4, describe-variable for gdb-prompt-pattern gives: Value: "^>\\|^(.*gdb[+]?) *\\|^---Type to.*--- *" What is the "[+]" in there? Does it just mean "the + character"? If so, why not use "\+"?
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Emacs cc major mode showing no color on Ubuntu but lisp mode does

How do I fix that? I open xemacs and have lovely colors. I open a .c or .cpp file and cc-mode loads - lovely - but no color is displayed. Installed emacs, version: XEmacs 21.4 (patch 22) "Instant Classic" [Lucid] (x86_64-linux-gnu, Mule) of Mon Nov…
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