Hi.
I think I should call for co-maintainer of xemacs21 and
xemacs21-packages. I'm using xemacs21 everyday and I'm
interested in maintaining these two packages even now, but there
are some problems. For example, I don't have enough time to
research all the bugs related to xemacs21. And especially about
xemacs21-packages, I don't use all xemacs packages. If I receive
the bug related to the package which I don't use, such as gnus,
it is difficult to check the problem.
If you feel interested in co-maintaining, please contact to me.
From: Ralf Angeli <angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de>
Subject: [debian-emacsen] Some XEmacs issues and proposals
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:28:15 +0200
> 1) /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp in load-path (bug #309747)
>
> The load-path of Debian's XEmacs includes the directory
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. This directory is traditionally
> used for the manual site-wide installation of GNU Emacs add-ons.
> Basically the same is true for /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. That means
> one could question the decision adding this directory to load-path as
> well.
> ....
> Anyway, XEmacs still picks up at least one wrong file. So taking
> aside /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp because it is under the package
> system's control, I think at least /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
> should not be added to XEmacs' load-path in order to prevent these
> problems. In addition the setting of `TeX-lisp-directory' in
> 00debian.el should be removed.
O.K. I agree with you. I'll remove these paths from
00debian.el at next revision.
> 2) xemacs-packages before site-packages (bug #151900)
>
> Debian's XEmacs is configured to search the
> /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages directory before the
> /usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages directory. This is contradictory to
> the search order described in XEmacs' Lispref manual:
> ....
> So my proposal would be to change the order of package directories
> as described in the Lispref manual.
This is the problem of configure option. I'll fix this.
> 3) Info documentation
>
> Some of XEmacs' documentation is not accessible from inside of
> Debian's XEmacs. For example `C-h C-c save-buffer RET' or similar
> does not work. Unfortunately I am not familiar with how an
> appropriate layout of info files and directories should look like or
> what was changed in Debian which broke commands like the one above, so
> I cannot make a suggestion here.
I think that I can fix this problem by configuring xemacs21
with --infopath=/usr/share/info/xemacs21. By this we can add
this directory to Info-directory-list. See #308607.
Thanks.
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