Peter Toneby wrote:
> Den Sun, 07 Sep 2003 09:21:04 -0500 skrev Shay:
> 
> 
>>I want to experiment with the pov-mode in Emacs, but am getting an error. I
>>untarred the three files into /usr/share/emacs/21.2/list/textmodes. I did
>>not have an .emacs file in my home directory, so I created one whih now
>>contains only:
>>
>>(autoload 'pov-mode "pov-mode.el" "PoVray scene file mode" t)
>>(setq auto-mode-alist
>>        (append '(("\\.pov$" . pov-mode) 
>>                  ("\\.inc$" . pov-mode)
>>                 ) auto-mode-alist))    
>>(require 'pov-mode) 
>>
>>When I attempt to start Emacs, or when I remove the last line, start Emacs,
>>and then try to M-x to pov-mode, I get the following error:
>>
>>Wrong type argument: listp, "/usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/"
>>
>>I know that the pov-mode files are in the load path. Emacs does bagin to
>>load pov-mode before displaying the error. I can switch to perl-mode,
>>cc-mode, etc. without a problem. 
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm using emacs 21.3.1 and does not have this problem. if you enable
> "Enter debugger on error" (it should be in the options menu), and then
> paste the result here. But first, you should download the latest version
> of povmode (I made a mistake while packaging it, and forgot the files
> that belong to the insertmenu).
> 
> /Peter
> 

I have installed the latest pov-mode.el (Aug 29 2003), and I have the 
following message in *Messages* buffer.

File mode specification error: (void-function pov-im-make-menu)

The file mode stays as fundamental-mode.  I am using Emacs 20.7.

Thanks.

Post a reply to this message