Re: Release 5.23a

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Richard G Riley wrote:

> Xin Shi <xs32@cornell.edu> writes:
>
>> Richard G Riley wrote:
>>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mar 11, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Xin Shi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the release!
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a bug which I got from an Email several weeks ago said it
>>>>> has been fixed, but I still found it in the 5.23a.  When export  
>>>>> the
>>>>> org file to html, emacs opens the .html file in the buffer. Since
>>>>> the html file has already been saved, shall we not open it in
>>>>> Emacs?  Another reason that this matters to me is that I'm using  
>>>>> the
>>>>> nXhtml mode, whenever emacs opens the html file, (even in the
>>>>> background buffer), it will load this mode and open the *nXhtml
>>>>> Welcome* buffer in half window. :)
>>>>>
>>>> That is horrible bahavior, and you should start by writing a bug
>>>> report to the maintainer of that package....
>>>>
>>>
>>> The nxhtml welcome screen can be turned off in the nxhtml customize
>>> group.
>>>
>>>
>> I found it:
>> (setq nxhtml-skip-welcome t)
>>
>> Thank you all!
>>
>> Xin
>
> I think its worth pointing out in Lennart's defence that this option  
> is
> there, and the welcome screen is there to ensure that the new user  
> sets
> the necessary options necessary to regulate nxhtml's workings - it's  
> not
> a trivial package. AFAIK the welcome screen has a well flagged "setup"
> button and then will not appear again after setting up the required
> usage the first time.

Well, if uh a button is there then I will soften my criticism.  Truth
is I don't know this package, so I don't really know what it is like.
I am just extremely wary of software that interferes more that you have
asked it to do, those things annoy me extremely much.  However,
if it is a first-time usage thing with a clearly visible way how to get
this disappear - sounds better.

- Carsten

>
>
> I'd also like to add it's one of the best packages out there for  
> anyone
> using mix-mode files (e.g a php file containing xhtml, php, js etc)
> . The nxml completion works very well. The different mode hiliting is
> good. The auto switch between language specific minor modes as you
> cursor around is excellent. I had trouble recently with it but it  
> seems
> the bugs are pretty much ironed out now.
>
> nxhtml and org-mode are my two main utility packages now.
>