NTEmacs 22BASE with IME & transparency

Japanese

NTEmeacsJp project start to disutribute MS Windows native binary of Emacs 22BASE, called NTEmacs.

Special thanks for hard work of many GNU developpers.

• original source is located at http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/
• original sources of pre-release versions are located at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/
• build on cygwin by make version 3.80
• IME pacth was implemented.
• transparency3 patch was implemented
• Japanese fixed width fontsets were pre-defined
• some fonts were defined for international HELLO.
• cygwin-mount.el & w32-symlinks.el were loaded

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1. Download

Binaries and patched sources are located at https://sourceforge.jp/projects/ntemacsjp/files/.

2. Install

2.1. Cygwin user

I suggest to extract tarball under /usr/local directory. Then please add "/usr/local/emacs/22.1/bin" to path enviroment variavle.(22.1 should be set as version number)

you can start NTEmacs by 2 method.

• Click /usr/local/emacs/22.1/bin/runemacs.exe
• from cygwin shell, '/usr/local/emacs/22.1/bin/emacs &'

2.2. other

Extract at hard disk root.

you can start NTEmacs by 2 method.

• Click c:\emacs\22.1\bin\runemacs.exe
• from command line, 'c:\emacs\22.1\bin\emacs.exe &'

3. IME patch

See http://www.archivum.info/emacs-devel@gnu.org/2007-03/msg00792.html.

Also authors pages.

4. Transparency setteing

Source is available at http://sourceforge.jp/projects/macemacsjp/files/.

Also, please read http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-devel@gnu.org/msg05205.html.

(set-alpha alpha &optional frame)

Set the opacity of frame to alpha. First argument alpha should range from 0 (invisible) to 100 (completely opaque). When called interactively, prompt for the value of the opacity to set. frame defaults to the selected frame. To get the frame's current alpha value state, use `frame-parameters'.

Also alpha can be a list which has two elements. First element is alpha value for active frame, second is for inactive.

Example. (set-alpha '(85 20))

It's cool! --->

5. Japanese fixed fidth fontset

5.1. fontset

If you want to disable these settings, please rename or delete emacs/22.1/site-lisp/site-start.el.

If you find your preferable one. Please set like as below.

(fixed-width-set-fontset "lucida" 14)

5.2. Screen shot

Default Fontset --->
not aligned

Lucida Fontset --->
aligned even bold and east aisia multibyte

6. International Hello

6.1. fonts

Arial Unicode MS

Microsoft origin

I'm not sure that your system has this. If not, please check —-> ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/

Braille

http://www.yudit.org/download/fonts/UBraille/ UBraille.ttf

Amharic

http://www.ethioindex.com/installfont.html Ethiopia Jiret

6.2. Screen shot

Upper half --->
Can display except south asia languages

lower half --->
Mr. Handa sead taht India 5 languages will be displayed unicode-2 branch in feature.

7. cygwin-mount.el & w32-symlinks.el

cygwin-mount.el is pre-loaded as below.

;; handle cygwin mount

(when (and (featurep 'dos-w32)
           (executable-find "mount.exe")
           (locate-library "cygwin-mount"))
  (require 'cygwin-mount)
  (cygwin-mount-activate))

w32-symlinks.el is pre-loaded and setted up as below.

;; follow windows short cut

(when (and (featurep 'dos-w32) (locate-library "w32-symlinks"))
  (setq w32-symlinks-handle-shortcuts t)
  (require 'w32-symlinks)

  ;; http://www.bookshelf.jp/soft/meadow_25.html#SEC279

  (defadvice minibuffer-complete
    (before expand-symlinks activate)
    (let ((file (expand-file-name
                 (buffer-substring-no-properties
                  (line-beginning-position)
                  (line-end-position)))))
      (when (string-match ".lnk$" file)
        (delete-region
         (line-beginning-position)
         (line-end-position))
        (if (file-directory-p
             (w32-symlinks-parse-symlink file))
            (insert
             (concat
              (w32-symlinks-parse-symlink file) "/"))
          (insert (w32-symlinks-parse-symlink file)))))))