Re: [Qemacs-devel] Config file questions

[Charles Gordon]

Hi Hadrien,

Scripting support is flaky at the moment, I am still investigating various 
options for the scripting language.
Still I am surprised `set_tab_width(4)` does not work, did you end your config 
lines with a semicolon?

I currently have this content in my ~/.qerc file:

// Tab-width is now more commonly set to 4
set_tab_width(8);
indent_tabs_mode = 0;
indent_width = 4;

And it works for me.

Note that qemacs loads ~/.qe/config at startup and it loads all .qerc files 
found in any of the parent directories of any file it loads into a buffer. 
.qerc files are loaded in hierarchical order, from the root directory down to 
the the directory of the current file.  You can put a .qerc file in the main 
directory of a project to set project-wide default values.

The current version has some shortcomings you might find problematic:

- long lines in the process buffer cause erratic display
- file times are not checked after the initial load: qemacs does not detect if 
a file loaded in a buffer is modified on disk asynchronously.
- yanking more than 4K into the process buffer for input may cause a crash

Which version of emacs are you familiar with?
I am interested to hear your feedback.

Chqrlie.

> On 4 Mar 2017, at 19:49, Hadrien Lacour <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I'm trying to set some things in my config file and I have some 
> problems:
> * set_tab_width(4) doesn't cause any error, but it doesn't change the tab 
> width.
> * set_variable simply doesn't work (e.g. `set_variable("tab-width", "4");` 
> gives
> me a `set-variable: tab-width -> 4` popup error).
> * `tab-width = 4;` doesn't change tab-width but `default-tab-width = 4;` does.
> * `set_indent_tabs_mode(1) doesn't change the said variable, like with 
> tab-width.
> * `indent-tabs-mode = 1;` doesn't cut it neither.
> 
> This seems strange to me, since all of these commands work inside qemacs. I 
> hope
> I'll be able to use it, since this seems like a really comfy editor.
> 
> 
> I'm using the latest qemacs snapshot on Gentoo (0.4.1_pre20170225).
> 
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