Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs
- To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
- Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs
- From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:27:23 +0900
- Message-id: <buo7ibe35n8.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
- Reply-to: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
- In-reply-to: <87ljzvormp.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:26:54 -0400")
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Incidentally, while on the issue of debian emacs startup, I have the
following snippet in my .emacs file for hooking my non-debian emacs into
the debian emacs package system:
;; Debian stuff
(unless (boundp 'debian-emacs-flavor)
(load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup")
(debian-startup 'emacs22)
(debian-startup 'emacs22))
["emacs22" because there is no emacs23 in debian yet]
It does appear to work (I can even use complicated packages like ecb
installed via aptitude), but is obviously slightly odd; is there a
better way than this?
AFAICT, the multiple calls to `debian-startup' are necessary -- it
doesn't work with just one -- which is one of the weird things nobody
seemed to understand when I asked about it a few years about on
debian-emacsen....
Thanks,
-Miles
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