Misc questions.

[Jay Belanger]

I have three, rather unrelated, questions I was wondering if anyone
could answer.

GNU Emacs has a *Messages* buffer, which will display the minibuffer
messages which have gone by. Does SXEmacs have anything similar?

Dired is a great thing, but a lot of the buffer has information which I
don't really use. Is there something like dired-details for SXEmacs?
(dired-details will hide the file information, like owner, group, size
and date in the dired buffer).

Finally, I'm looking into moving away from gnus for email.
mu4e looks like a good, and popular, choice, and mu4e seems to support
XEmacs. I haven't gotten it to work with SXEmacs. Has anyone tried it?
Or what, beside gnus, do people use for email?

Jay

[Steve Youngs]

Post by Jay Belanger
I have three, rather unrelated, questions I was wondering if anyone
could answer.
GNU Emacs has a *Messages* buffer, which will display the minibuffer
messages which have gone by. Does SXEmacs have anything similar?

,----[ C-h k C-h l ]
| C-h l runs `view-lossage'
|
| `view-lossage' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
| -- loaded from "/usr/share/sxemacs-22.1.16/lisp/help.elc"
| (view-lossage)
|
| Documentation:
| Display recent input keystrokes and recent minibuffer messages.
| The number of keys shown is controlled by `view-lossage-key-count'.
| The number of messages shown is controlled by `view-lossage-message-count'.
|
| Invoked with:
|
| M-? l
`----

Post by Jay Belanger
Dired is a great thing, but a lot of the buffer has information which I
don't really use. Is there something like dired-details for SXEmacs?
(dired-details will hide the file information, like owner, group, size
and date in the dired buffer).

,----[ C-h v dired-listing-switches RET ]
| `dired-listing-switches' is a variable declared in Lisp.
| -- loaded from "dired"
|
| Value: "al"
|
| Documentation:
| *Switches passed to ls for dired. MUST contain the `l' option.
| Can contain even `h', `F', `b', `i' and `s'.
`----

Don't believe what it says there about "MUST contain the `l'". If you
set it to 'nil' or '"1"' you'll get a single column list of filenames

If you can't get the display you want via ls options you could probably
do something via a hook (maybe 'dired-after-readin-hook'). I'm
thinking... attach extents to the bits you don't want to see and mark
them invisible.

Post by Jay Belanger
Finally, I'm looking into moving away from gnus for email.
mu4e looks like a good, and popular, choice, and mu4e seems to support
XEmacs. I haven't gotten it to work with SXEmacs. Has anyone tried it?
Or what, beside gnus, do people use for email?

Sorry, I've never heard of "mu4e". Popular in XEmacs circles is "VM",
or even "mhe". I've tried them both years ago, from what I remember
they were pretty cool.

[Jay Belanger]

Post by Steve Youngs

Post by Jay Belanger
GNU Emacs has a *Messages* buffer, which will display the minibuffer
messages which have gone by. Does SXEmacs have anything similar?

,----[ C-h k C-h l ]
| C-h l runs `view-lossage'

Oh; great!

Post by Steve Youngs

Post by Jay Belanger
Dired is a great thing, but a lot of the buffer has information which I
don't really use. Is there something like dired-details for SXEmacs?
(dired-details will hide the file information, like owner, group, size
and date in the dired buffer).

,----[ C-h v dired-listing-switches RET ]
| `dired-listing-switches' is a variable declared in Lisp.
| -- loaded from "dired"

...

Post by Steve Youngs
Don't believe what it says there about "MUST contain the `l'". If you
set it to 'nil' or '"1"' you'll get a single column list of filenames

Not needing "l" is useful. Using "o" instead saves some real estate.
I got errors when I tried 'nil or "1".

Post by Steve Youngs
If you can't get the display you want via ls options you could probably
do something via a hook (maybe 'dired-after-readin-hook'). I'm
thinking... attach extents to the bits you don't want to see and mark
them invisible.

I had tried that before. That worked until I tried changing file names
with wdired; then things got wonky; I don't remember exactly how.

Post by Steve Youngs
Sorry, I've never heard of "mu4e". Popular in XEmacs circles is "VM",
or even "mhe". I've tried them both years ago, from what I remember
they were pretty cool.

I'll take a look at those; thanks!