[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#416435: octave2.9-emacsen: octave-help-files should be set to ("octave2.9")
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 06:40:13PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I am not sure we should fix this. The /usr/share/info/octave.info.gz file
> is already managed by upadte-alternatives.
Perfect.
>
> > (autoload 'octave-help "octave-hlp" nil t)
>
> This is already in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50octave2.*-emacsen.el.
>
> > (load "gnuserv-compat")
> > (load-library "gnuserv")
> > (gnuserv-start)
> >
> > To have this to work, 'gnuserv' is thus a dependency.
>
> Are you suggesting that the code above (or a variant of it) should be added
> to the initialization file? Adding a dependency to gnuserv and forcing its
> loading does not seem to be a good idea to me.
>
> In sum, the points above do not justify a real bug report, hence the
> "moreinfo" tag. As usual, this bug report will be closed in a reasonable
> time frame if there is no better argumentation for it.
>
gnuserv and gnuclient are included in XEmacs. If you want gnuserv with
Emacs, you have to install the required package, and furthermore to
start "gnserv-compat" first, otherwise you get strange behaviour in
Emacs. So it depends on wheter you've choosen Emacs or XEmacs.
Best regards
Pascal Dupuis
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