Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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.
[...] > 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/ ? On my system, the only modes that load from /etc/emacs21 are gnus, psgml (Manoj's packages :-) and nxml-mode. AFAIK, the reason why psgml is loaded from /etc/emacs21 is because this mode is shipped in XEmacs packages and it must not override the XEmacs package (or maybe the Xemacs version is a modified one). I think it is not the right thing, unlike nxml-mode which is really emacs21-specific. However, I don't know why gnus doesn't use /etc/emacs since the gnus-init startup files in /etc/xemacs21 and /etc/emacs21 are the same files. -- J閞鬽e Marant http://marant.org
