Re: [Sheflug] Emacs - formatting and dating files.

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:

    Barrie> However, upon opening a .tcl file, I get the following
    Barrie> error:

    Barrie> Error in init file: Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil

Grr.  Why do they make things so hard?  There is _no_ point in not
defining a keymap on loading the file.

Try
(if t                   ; change `t' to `nil' to turn this off
    (add-hook
     #'(lambda ()
         (progn
          (define-key tcl-mode-map [(tab)]       'self-insert-command)
          (define-key tcl-mode-map [(shift tab)] 'tcl-indent-command)))
     'tcl-mode-hook))

If tcl-mode is set up properly, this should win.

    Barrie> [The double pp on keymapp is as it reads - lisp
    Barrie> predictate?]

Good guess.  That's exactly what it is.  Scheme people use `?' (as in
`keymap?'), which tends to cause C/FORTRAN/Basic programmers to piss
their pants.  ;-)

    Barrie> No joy.

You could always switch to XEmacs, where things are set up to _start
with_[1], and wrestle with figuring out how to configure stuff for
yourself in GNU Emacs later....  ;-)


Footnotes: 
[1]  Well, at least we try.  GNU doesn't -- they have their reasons.
This difference in reasons is one of the _good_ things about the
split.  You _can_ have it your way, you don't have to do it our way if
you prefer RMSmacs.

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