On 2012-10-08, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On 2012-10-08, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
>> Am 08.10.2012 18:39, schrieb Grant Edwards:
>>> How do I prevent emerge from demanding that emacs 24 be installed? I
>>> uninstalled it a few days ago and re-installed 23 because 24 was just
>>> too buggy to be usable.
>>
>> Well, I am sure there's a emacs command for that :) :)
>>
>> But seriously, like the other suggested, I would mask that specific
>> version of emacs.
>
> Regarding "too buggy to be usable",
I had all sorts of problems doing simple editing of C source files.
It seems like I couldn't edit for more than a dozen keystrokes before
it would "pop up" a lisp debugger window containing an unintelligible
(to me) traceback.
Once that happened, all sorts of things broke:
* matching brace highlight stopped working.
* Ctrl-XS didn't know the path/filename associated with the buffer.
* The F8/compile command stopped working.
> they really changed some of the defaults... it seems, for example,
> that Emacs is not doing copy-paste as expected anymore (tries to rely
> solely on the "clipboard", ignoring the X selection),
I hadn't noticed that one, but 24 was so unstable for me that I didn't
use it for very long before I went back to 23.
> and now highlights regions by default, like if setting the
> region was like doing text selection in a program such as Notepad.EXE.
I have that enabled in my .emacs file anyway.
> As some day I will have to switch to 24, does anyone have a list of
> settings to revert to the old Emacs behavior? I'm even wondering if
> anything else changed, other than these two things I noticed...
Maybe there's something incompatible with some of my add-ons ( Cscope,
and nxhmtl-mumamo-mode are probably the big ones), but I didn't find
24 usable enough to notice too many differences other than "23 works
and 24 doesn't".
--
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at party -- My RIB CAGE is
gmail.com being painfully pressed up
against someone's MARTINI!!
