Hi, A minor, possibly crazy wishlist (?) item, from a Debian newbie.
Executive summary: I think XEmacs (because of PSGML) really should recommend that sgml-base be installed, but it doesn't. As a result, using XEmacs to edit an HTML file results in errors when trying to load the DTD. Longer version: I visited an HTML file this evening, and PSGML mode complained about not being able to find the DTD. I've never seen that happen with XEmacs before (I usually build it from source on Solaris at work, and I've never had to install DTD/catalog files). A little investigation showed that sgml-catalog-files was pointing at /usr/lib/sgml/... and so on, and I did not have the sgml files installed. It was obvious to me that Debian's XEmacs does not use the catalog/DTDs that come with the PSGML code that is bundled with XEmacs. Not being sure about what to do, on a hunch I looked up 'dpkg -p psgml' which indicated that the psgml package only applied to Emacs and not XEmacs. However, the 'suggests' lines for psgml indicated a way out, so I installed it and everything else dselect recommended on the conflict screens. XEmacs/PSGML now works for me like it should, and I *really* like the way the whole thing is structured (actually, like about most other things in Debian, I'm seriously impressed). However, I'm just surprised that I had to install the Emacs psgml package to have XEmacs psgml work out of the box (yes, all I should have done was to install sgml-data, but since I'm a newbie, it took me a while to figure it out ;-) Maybe this is not really an issue, but since XEmacs includes PSGML, it might be nice to suggest (but perhaps not force the installation of) enough packages so that PSGML would work out of the box with XEmacs?. Or at any rate, somehow inform the user that PSGML in Debian XEmacs, unlike straight XEmacs builds, does recommend the installation of sgml-base. Or am I just crazy? Cheers! Shyamal
