Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,
Salut Jérôme ! > I managed to change the emacs packaging so that it is possible > to easily adapt it to any upcoming GNU Emacs flavour. > Full testing remains but most of the work has been completed. Thanks for doing this. > Now, I wonder how it is possible to use the numerous emacs > modes shipped by Debian with such a flavour. > > Most of emacs modes detect emacs21 or xemacs21, so I doubt > any mode will work with the emacs-snapshot flavour > (emacs-snapshot provides emacs21 though). I'm not sure about _most_ modes. I'm running CVS Emacs now with the Debian startup. I did notice that my packages loaded correctly but some like gnus didn't. I guess thoese that use /etc/emacs/site-start.d mostly work and those that split off into e.g. /etc/emacs21/site-start.d/ don't. My solution was simply adding "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/gnus" to my load-path after detecting the problem. > The solution would be that every mode adds emacs-snapshot > to its flavour list. Is there any other way? Since using e.g. /etc/emacs21/ instead of /etc/emacs/ makes these packages incompatible with future versions of Emacs, they should really only be used when the setup is very different between Emacs flavours. Even then, is there a good reason for using them instead of using conditionals under /etc/emacs/ ? Wondering... Peter
