"Barak A. Pearlmutter" <ba...@cs.nuim.ie> writes: > > check if the library > file "octave" is available, even though "octave-mod" is not?
Alas no, xemacs21 does not have octave at all. For a lisp change I might suggest defanging octave-expansion.el with a (when (require ...)) along the lines below. This lets it byte compile, and if the user gets octave-mod.el from elsewhere then it might even run. > disabling expand-region entirely for the problematic emacsen, emacs21 has further problems. They're mostly minor but unless anyone particularly cares then the most helpful for me would be just to skip it in the debian install script.
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