xcscope responds "File does not have expected format" - emacs

When trying to find a file using command cscope-find-file inside emacs the following message is displayed
"File does not have expected format"
But when the same is tried using the cscope command prompt in cygwin The following message is displayed. On pressing enter key the file is opened.
"/cygdrive/x/src/lib/proxy/controller.h" [dos format] 201 lines, 64
47 characters
Press ENTER or type command to continue
How to emulate the same behaviour in emacs, Below is the elisp code.
(defun cscope-find-this-file (symbol)
"Locate a file."
(interactive (list
(let (cscope-no-mouse-prompts)
(cscope-prompt-for-symbol "Find this file: " t))
))
(let ( (cscope-adjust nil) ) ;; Disable fuzzy matching.
(setq cscope-symbol symbol)
(cscope-call (format "Finding file: %s" symbol)
(list "-7" symbol) nil 'cscope-process-filter
'cscope-process-sentinel)
))
Any pointers on what to modify in the above code is appreciated. Thanks

It seems that it is a spotted bug but the patch has not been released yet.
cf this discussion on cscope, you will find a patch.

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Can I stop Emacs from resetting default-directory every time I open a file?

I've already asked the same question on Emacs. If it's not permitted, I'm sorry and I will delete the question.
If I:
Start Emacs in my home directory (~)
Find a file in the ~/Projects/ruby-play directory with C-x C-f
Try to find another file with C-x C-f
The default directory in the file finder will be ~/Projects/ruby-play.
What I'd like to see is the default directory being ~ still.
Is there a package/hook/Elisp function I should use to make this happen?
Thank you very much!
One way would be to set initial-default-directory to nil, but then you won't have a default directory at all, not even your home-directory:
(setq insert-default-directory nil)
If you want your home directory to show up as the default, this cannot be done so easily. When interactively calling find-file, this results in a call to read-file-name which has a rather complicated default behavior.
Using setq-default on default-directory doesn't help, as it's value is set when the file of the buffer you're currently seeing is visited.
The only option I see is using your own version of find-file like this:
(defun my-find-file-read-args (prompt mustmatch)
(list (read-file-name prompt "~/" nil mustmatch)
t))
(defun my-find-file (filename &optional wildcards)
"Edit file FILENAME.
Like `find-file` but always uses ~ as the default directory"
(interactive
(my-find-file-read-args "Find file: "
(confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer)))
(let ((value (find-file-noselect filename nil nil wildcards)))
(if (listp value)
(mapcar 'switch-to-buffer (nreverse value))
(switch-to-buffer value))))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-f") 'my-find-file)

mu4e how to change lookup directory fro mu4e-action-view-as-pdf function

I'm trying to get to work the view as pdf function in mu4e, and I guess that the problem is the lookup directory of the executable msg2pdf.
From the function definition I see
(defvar mu4e-msg2pdf "/usr/bin/msg2pdf" "Path to the msg2pdf toy.")
(defun mu4e-action-view-as-pdf (msg)
"Convert the message to pdf, then show it.
Works for the message view."
(unless (file-executable-p mu4e-msg2pdf)
(mu4e-error "msg2pdf not found; please set `mu4e-msg2pdf'"))
(let* ((pdf
(shell-command-to-string
(concat mu4e-msg2pdf " "
(shell-quote-argument (mu4e-message-field msg :path))
" 2> /dev/null")))
(pdf (and pdf (> (length pdf) 5)
(substring pdf 0 -1)))) ;; chop \n
(unless (and pdf (file-exists-p pdf))
(mu4e-warn "Failed to create PDF file"))
(find-file pdf)))
where I changed the (defvar mu4e-msg2pdf "/usr/bin/msg2pdf" "Path to the msg2pdf toy.")
to match the path where msg2pdf is.
The problem is that from the debugger I see
Debugger entered--returning value: nil
file-executable-p("/build/buildd/maildir-utils-0.9.9.5/toys/msg2pdf/msg2pdf")
* #[(msg) "\305!\204\n ......
* mu4e-action-view-as-pdf((.....
mu4e-view-action()
call-interactively(mu4e-view-action nil nil)
that the lookup path is not what I specified. Since I tried to chage it in different ways and apparently mu4e is ignoring me, does anybody knows how can I set the correct lookup path?
You can set the the variable mu4e-msg2pf to the path of the executable msg2pdf by adding the following to your init file
(setq mu4e-msg2pdf "/path/to/msg2pdf")

ESS + AUCTeX + Sweave. SyncteX integration from .Rnw <-> pdfviewer?

I'm remodeling my toolchain away from R + TeXShop to what I hope is a more efficient Sweave -> LaTeX -> SyncteX -> pdfview (skim) through emacs (Aquamacs, to be specific) AUCTeX-mode (with emacs-speaks-statsitics' sweave minor-mode). Everything works great with SyncteX from the AUCTeX -> pdfview chain, and everything works fine compiling from Sweave to .pdf.
The trouble comes in when I add Sweave as the first step. The .Rnw file now becomes the principal original document, and the .tex file it generates is just an intermediate step. Of course, it's the .tex file that SyncteX locks to.
The only changes I've made to my .emacs file are to register two new commands to build the .pdf from the .Rnw.
Can anyone offer advice on how to get emacs to use SyncteX to sync the output .pdf to the .Rnw, instead of the .tex?
Thanks!
Edit 1: Warning: This ended up being a summary of my fumbling around all afternoon. I get very close to the solution but foiled by an error at the very end that I cannot find documentation for. Warning 2: Today was the first time I've ever looked anywhere near this deep into emacs' inner workings. There's bound to be errors or inefficiencies.
VitoshKa's answer got me most of the way there. Adding his recommendation to my .emacs (well, Preferences.el, but functionally the same) file caused an Symbol’s value as variable is void: noweb-minor-mode-map error on launch because Aquamacs seems to load the .emacs file before the rest of its init files.
I fixed this by adding (require 'ess-site) (require 'ess-eldoc) immediately before VitoshKa's (define-key noweb-minor-mode-map (kbd "\C-c \C-c") 'Rnw-command-master). Unfortunately, Aquamacs ships with the ess-swv.elc file already in binary and forces the M-n P reader to be acroread. So I added the following edits of a portion of the ess-swv.el file to the bottom of my own .emacs:
(defun ess-makePDFandView ()
(interactive)
(setq namestem (substring (buffer-name) 0 (search ".Rnw" (buffer-name))))
(setq tex-filename (concat "\"" namestem "\".tex"))
(setq my-command-string (concat "pdflatex -synctex=1" tex-filename))
(shell-command my-command-string)
(setq my-command-string (concat "/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS/Skim \"" namestem ".pdf\" &"))
(shell-command my-command-string))
(define-key noweb-minor-mode-map "\M-nv" 'ess-makePDFandView)
Now emacs will launch skim with the correct pdf name from emacs with either M-n v or C-c C-c View RET. There's still one more snag to get through...
Command-Shift-Click in emacs tries to sync to filename.Rnw.pdf (but discarding the error message at least still causes a correct sync in the pdfviewer).
Command-Shift-Click in the pdfviewer to search back to the source forces emacs to open the filename.tex file and syncs to that. Fortunately, Cameron Bracken has a fix for that. He just doesn't quite go all the way to emacs integration.
So I added this further hack of ess-swv.el to my .emacs:
(defun ess-swv-latex-rnw-sync ()
"Run LaTeX on the product of Sweave()ing the current file."
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(let* ((namestem (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name)))
(latex-filename (concat namestem ".tex"))
(synctex-filename (concat namestem ".synctex.gz"))
(tex-buf (get-buffer-create " *ESS-tex-output*"))
(patchDVI-command-string (concat "Rscript -e \"library('patchDVI');patchSynctex('" synctex-filename "')\"")))
(message "synctex string: %s" patchDVI-command-string)
(message "Running LaTeX on '%s' ..." latex-filename)
(switch-to-buffer tex-buf)
(call-process "latex" nil tex-buf 1 "-synctex=1 " latex-filename)
(switch-to-buffer (buffer-name))
(display-buffer tex-buf)
(message "Finished running LaTeX" )
(message "Running patchDVI...")
(shell-command patchDVI-command-string))))
(define-key noweb-minor-mode-map "\M-nq" 'ess-swv-latex-rnw-sync)
With the thinking that it was the lack patching the DVI and syncing it in... but no! Same behaviour on Command-Shift-Click as above... Back to hacking up ess-swv. I removed the ess-makePDFandView function, and instead added the following to my .emacs:
(defun ess-swv-PDF-rnw-sync (&optional pdflatex-cmd)
"From LaTeX file, create a PDF (via 'texi2pdf' or 'pdflatex', ...), by
default using the first entry of `ess-swv-pdflatex-commands' and display it."
(interactive
(list
(let ((def (elt ess-swv-pdflatex-commands 0)))
(completing-read (format "pdf latex command (%s): " def)
ess-swv-pdflatex-commands ; <- collection to choose from
nil 'confirm ; or 'confirm-after-completion
nil nil def))))
(let* ((buf (buffer-name))
(namestem (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name)))
(latex-filename (concat namestem ".tex"))
(tex-buf (get-buffer-create " *ESS-tex-output*"))
(pdfviewer (ess-get-pdf-viewer))
(pdf-status)
(cmdstr-win (format "start \"%s\" \"%s.pdf\""
pdfviewer namestem))
(cmdstr (format "\"%s\" \"%s.pdf\" &" pdfviewer namestem)))
;;(shell-command (concat "pdflatex " latex-filename))
(message "Running '%s' on '%s' ..." pdflatex-cmd latex-filename)
(switch-to-buffer tex-buf)
(setq pdf-status
(call-process pdflatex-cmd nil tex-buf 1 "-synctex=1 "
(if (string= "texi2" (substring pdflatex-cmd 0 5))
;; workaround (bug?): texi2pdf or texi2dvi *fail* to work with full path:
(file-name-nondirectory latex-filename)
latex-filename)))
(if (not (= 0 pdf-status))
(message "** OOPS: error in '%s' (%d)!" pdflatex-cmd pdf-status)
;; else: pdflatex probably ok
(shell-command
(concat (if (and ess-microsoft-p (w32-shell-dos-semantics))
cmdstr-win
cmdstr))))
(switch-to-buffer buf)
(display-buffer tex-buf)))
(define-key noweb-minor-mode-map "\M-nv" 'ess-swv-PDF-rnw-sync)
Getting closer and closer, but we still need to tell auctex what filenames to pass through to skim. So I bit the bullet and edited auctex-config.el. I commented out the existing aquamacs-call-viewer function definition and replaced it with my own:
(defun aquamacs-call-viewer (line source)
"Display current output file as PDF at LINE (as in file SOURCE).
Calls `aquamacs-tex-pdf-viewer' to display the PDF file using the
Skim AppleScript protocol."
(cond
((string= (file-name-extension (TeX-active-master)) "Rnw")
(let* ((full-file-name
(expand-file-name
;; as in TeX-view
;; C-c C-c view uses %o (from TeX-expand-list), which
;; is the same.
(concat (file-name-sans-extension (TeX-active-master)) "." (TeX-output-extension))
default-directory))
(full-source-name
(expand-file-name
(concat (file-name-sans-extension (source)) ".Rnw") ;; this is relative to the master
(file-name-directory (full-file-name)))))
(message "full pdf name: %s" full-file-name)
(message "full rnw sournce name: %s" full-source-name)
(do-applescript
(format
"
set theSink to POSIX file \"%s\"
set theSource to POSIX file \"%s\"
tell application \"%s\"
activate
open theSink
tell front document to go to TeX line %d from theSource%s
end tell
"
full-file-name full-source-name aquamacs-tex-pdf-viewer line
;; do not say "showing reading bar false" so users can override in future
(cond ((eq t aquamacs-skim-show-reading-bar)
" showing reading bar true")
((eq nil aquamacs-skim-show-reading-bar)
" showing reading bar false")
(t ""))))))
(t
(let* ((full-file-name
(expand-file-name
;; as in TeX-view
;; C-c C-c view uses %o (from TeX-expand-list), which
;; is the same.
(TeX-active-master (TeX-output-extension))
default-directory))
(full-source-name
(expand-file-name
source ;; this is relative to the master
(file-name-directory full-file-name))))
(message "IN OTHERWISE!! WAT: %s" (file-name-extension (TeX-active-master)))
(do-applescript
(format
"
set theSink to POSIX file \"%s\"
set theSource to POSIX file \"%s\"
tell application \"%s\"
activate
open theSink
tell front document to go to TeX line %d from theSource%s
end tell
"
full-file-name full-source-name aquamacs-tex-pdf-viewer line
;; do not say "showing reading bar false" so users can override in future
(cond ((eq t aquamacs-skim-show-reading-bar)
" showing reading bar true")
((eq nil aquamacs-skim-show-reading-bar)
" showing reading bar false")
(t ""))))))))
And one more final test (notice I changed the keybindings of the toolchain to: M-n s -> M-n q -> M-n v in that order for sweave -> latex -> view [note that for this last step you have to use pdflatex and not texi2pdf]), everything builds, no errors, launching viewer...
"Skim" "/Users/myname/text/testing/myfile.pdf": exited abnormally with code 127.
And now I'm completely lost again. Anyone sufficiently familiar with Skim?
Edit 2: Well, error 127 is simply file-not-found on the binary. Somewhere in there I must have clobbered the path. So I added (setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") ":" "/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/MacOS")) near the top of my auctex-config.el. Now everything compiles and launches with no errors ... but Command-Shift-Click on emacs does not get Skim to respond (at least it gives no errors). Command-Shift-Click on Skim still forces emacs to open the .tex file.
I guess this has now become a very Aquamacs + Skim specific question, since most of the rest of the interaction is in applescript, unless I missed something obvious in the key lines of lisp pointed out above.
To clarify. You want C-c C-c from Rnw files to run AUCTeX commands on the output of Sweave (M-n s).
The problem is that Auctex doesn't know that it has to act on a different file. This is how to make it aware of that:
(defun Rnw-command-master (&optional override-confirm)
"Run command on the current document.
If a prefix argument OVERRIDE-CONFIRM is given, confirmation will
depend on it being positive instead of the entry in `TeX-command-list'."
(interactive "P")
(let ((TeX-transient-master (concat
(file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name))
".tex"))
(TeX-master nil))
(TeX-command (TeX-command-query (TeX-master-file)) 'TeX-master-file
override-confirm)))
(define-key noweb-minor-mode-map (kbd "\C-c \C-c") 'Rnw-command-master)
To make Auctex run sweave first it would require a bit of additional work. Noweb support is now actively rewritten in ESS and by next version you will have a completely new system with AucTeX integration and many other useful things activated by default.

Getting vc-diff to use ediff in Emacs 23.2

Had this working well in Emacs 23.1.x but it appears to have broke in the move to Emacs 23.2
I want to use ediff when comparing working copy of a file with SVN HEAD.
Normally I press C-x v = and ediff runs because of the following configuration in my .emacs
;; Use ediff and not diff
(setq diff-command "ediff")
But, alas I still get the normal vc-diff buffer appearing and no ediff session...
Has anyone else encountered this and know what might be the problem?
Am a bit skeptical that the above setting did what you say it did.
That said, this will bind '=' to use 'ediff-revision:
(eval-after-load "vc-hooks"
'(define-key vc-prefix-map "=" 'ediff-revision))
I use the command vc-ediff to skip entering the file names: just compare the current modified copy with the base version (HEAD).
(eval-after-load "vc-hooks"
'(define-key vc-prefix-map "=" 'vc-ediff))
Then C-x v = will bring up the Ediff session.
Found out I could just rebind C-x v = to the following:
(defun ediff-current-buffer-revision ()
"Run Ediff to diff current buffer's file against VC depot.
Uses `vc.el' or `rcs.el' depending on `ediff-version-control-package'."
(interactive)
(let ((file (or (buffer-file-name)
(error "Current buffer is not visiting a file"))))
(if (and (buffer-modified-p)
(y-or-n-p (message "Buffer %s is modified. Save buffer? "
(buffer-name))))
(save-buffer (current-buffer)))
(ediff-load-version-control)
(funcall
(intern (format "ediff-%S-internal" ediff-version-control-package))
"" "" nil)))
This approach means you avoid having to specify the versions to compare as it defaults to comparing HEAD and the current file state.
Source: http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about152826.html

Emacs Elisp dynamic interactive prompt

I am trying to have a dynamic prompt from my elisp function. I want something like replace-regexp where it will show you the last regexp entered. I tried
(interactive
(concat "sab" "bab")))
that doesnt work!
I also tried message like format
(interactive "s %s" last-used-regexp)
and that doesn't work!
Anyone know how to do this?
Thank you!
M-x find-function is your friend. It will tell you how anything in emacs works by showing you the source code. Using it, I find that query-regexp-replace calls query-replace-read-args which calls query-replace-read-from which calls read-from-minibuffer using a prompt created from the last used regexp, which is saved in the dotted pair query-replace-defaults.
So:
(defun my-func ()
"Do stuff..."
(interactive)
(read-from-minibuffer "Regexp? " (first query-replace-defaults)))
is a command that throws up a prompt with the last entered regexp as the default.
Use a variable for input history, and interactive with a list:
(defvar my-func-history nil)
(defun my-func (str)
(interactive (list (read-from-minibuffer "Input string: " (car my-func-history) nil nil 'my-func-history)))
(insert str))
If you don't want the last value entered in there initially, change the (car my-func-history) to nil. You can of course up/down arrow to go through the history at the prompt.