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From: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: JOVE (Ver. 4.9)
Message-ID: <263@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Mar 89 09:55:49 GMT
References: <136@estevax_a.UUCP>
Reply-To: arc1@ukc.ac.uk (A.R.Curtis)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <136@estevax_a.UUCP> lea362@estevax_a.UUCP (Hr Lea Iain ) writes:
>  1)  I have defined, named and saved to a file a few keyboard macros
>      (no problem), but when i try to  read the  macros from the file
>      there is no command to do it.

If you look at the on-line description of write-macros-to-file it
says you can read them back in like you do for named commands, i.e.
SOURCE.

>
>      instead of the normal 2 byte code. Has any one an idea how i can 
>      use the keypad, cursor keys and function keys to execute commands ?

What you probably are referring to is the ansi-codes function. Try
binding as follows (taken from my .joverc)

bind-to-key ansi-codes ^[O
bind-to-key ansi-codes ^[[

Then use describe-command to find out what each of the function and
cursor keys generate if you're not sure, and then you can bind them
how you want (wyse85's are nice...)

>      activate a help macro (or whatever solution) by just selecting
>      the word that the cursor (point) is on i.e. cursor is in the 
>      middle of the word 'read(' and it would list all the correct

Don't think this can be done actually. It can be (and is) in
GNU-Emacs but that's because the programmability allows it. JOVE (to
my knowledge, but there again I occasionally discover something
new and useful) hasn't got these read-from-buffer type thingies. I
fit has please let me/everyone know.

>  4)  Has anyone written any interactive macros that use the command
>      make-macro-interactive. If so could you please post or mail an
>      example(s).

I haven't

>  5)  I have been tinkering with word abbreviations and would like to
>      know if there is a limit to the number of abbreviations JOVE
>      can handle. I entered over 150 and when i saved the abbreviations
>      and later used some of them i found that only about 65-70 had 
>      been saved. If there is a limit can it be changed ?

I don't know what the limit (if any) is. If you have the source code
you could probably work it out.

>and finally !!
>
>  6)  Has anyone used JOVE with the Clipper compiler (Dbase compatiable)
>      and written any routines or macros to speed up & ease the
>      development of large programs. Also has anyone written a 'tags'
>      generator for the Dbase/Clipper language. Last but not least has 
>      anyone converted the error messages from the clipper compiler to
>      a form usable by the next-error / previous-error commands ?
>

You can set the variable error-format-string to be a regexp denoting
an error string in the compile window (well, that's normally where
to look for errors with {next,previous}-error)

Hope that helps somewhat

Tony
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