tag 512784 + confirmed thanks I personally use icicles in emacs in a tty, so disabling it altogether in that case is not an option, but I will work something out...
Cheers, --Seb On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:44:21PM +0000, Toby Speight wrote: > Package: icicles > Version: 22.0+20081227-1 > Severity: normal > > After installing icicles, *all* users get the following message when > starting emacs on console, xterm or telnet session: > > /-------- > | You might NOT want to use Icicles without a windowing system (manager). > | > | Consider using `emacsclient' (or `gnuclient'). Icicles makes use of many > | keys that are unavailable when running Emacs in console mode. If you do > | use Icicles in this mode, you will want to rebind those keys - see file > | `icicles-mode.el'. > \-------- > > or (with --batch): > > /-------- > | *WARNING* - Icicles uses keys that require a windowing system > \-------- > > The package shouldn't be so aggressive simply on Emacs start-up - such > a message would be fine when enabling icicles-mode, for instance, but > is just an irritation for the user otherwise. > > As an interim, temporary fix, perhaps the site-start.d file should > duplicate the > > /-------- > | (or window-system (and (fboundp 'daemonp) (daemonp))) > \-------- > > test in icicles.el to determine whether or not to load it? > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages icicles depends on: > ii emacs22 [emacsen] 22.2+2-5 The GNU Emacs editor > > icicles recommends no packages. > > icicles suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
