Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:36:26 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: "John E. Hein" <jhein@timing.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems using send-pr with Emacs Message-ID: <19991022213625.A588@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <14352.47667.735759.155866@taz.timing.com> References: <19991022173603.B316@marder-1> <14352.47667.735759.155866@taz.timing.com>
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On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:25:39PM -0600, John E. Hein wrote:
> Look in send-pr.el
> The answer's in there, but basically put the following lines in
> your .emacs and restart emacs or put 'em in *scratch* and
> use eval-region or eval-buffer:
>
> (autoload 'send-pr-mode "send-pr"
> "Major mode for sending problem reports." t)
> (autoload 'send-pr "send-pr"
> "Command to create and send a problem report." t)
>
Great, thanks, that's done it :)
> Mark Ovens wrote at 17:36 +0100 on Oct 22:
> > According to send-pr(1):
> >
> > "An Emacs user interface for send-pr with completion of
> > field values is part of the send-pr distribution (invoked
> > with M-x send-pr). See the file send-pr.info or the ASCII
> > file INSTALL in the top level directory of the distribu-
> > tion for configuration and installation information. The
> > Emacs LISP template file is send-pr-el.in and is installed
> > as send-pr.el."
> >
> > I copied send-pr-el.in to /usr/local/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/mail/send-pr.el
> > and managed to compile it in emacs to produce the .elc file, but
> > ``M-x send-pr'' doesn't work.
> >
> > Also, using Help->Find Emacs Packages and then selecting mail
> > doesn't show send-pr in the list. Looking at sendmail.el for guidance
> > I added:
> >
> > ;;; send-pr.el --- mail bug reports to GNATS.
> >
> > and:
> >
> > ;; Keywords: mail
> >
> > to send-pr.el and re-compiled. Still not listed as a package and
> > ``M-x send-pr'' still doesn't work (it just gives ``[no match]''.
> >
> > So, how the hell do you run send-pr in emacs (v20.3)? Do you have
> > to "register" the send-pr package or something? The emacs manual
> > isn't much help here.
>
>
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