Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-11-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Miles, Actually, I pasted in the old stuff in my reply. Sorry. I knew I had changed it, but I had done that at work, and not on my home system (I'm now using the Debian package, so that's why everything worked). Here's what really works: (cond ((equal emacs-major-version '21) (add-to-list '

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-11-21 Thread Miles Bader
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - I'm adding /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ to the load-path so emacs can find > anything Debian packages put there. Ah, it initially looked like `debian-startup' did this itself, but I guess that was artifact of my screwing around. > - I'm using (de

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-11-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm pretty sure I posted later with: > > > > (cond > > ((equal emacs-major-version '21) > > (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/") > > (load "debian-startup") > > (message "Debian startup...") > > (debian-startup 'emacs)

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-11-21 Thread Miles Bader
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm pretty sure I posted later with: > > (cond > ((equal emacs-major-version '21) > (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/") > (load "debian-startup") > (message "Debian startup...") > (debian-startup 'emacs) > (message "Debi

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-11-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> Hi, > > I'm trying to make my self-compiled emacs fit into the debian emacs > framework. I tried to use the method suggested by Peter Galbraith: > >(load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup") >(debian-startup 'emacs21) I'm pretty sure I posted later with: (cond ((equal emacs-

debian-startup.el question

2001-11-19 Thread Miles Bader
Hi, I'm trying to make my self-compiled emacs fit into the debian emacs framework. I tried to use the method suggested by Peter Galbraith: (load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup") (debian-startup 'emacs21) But this doesn't work; the reason seems to the fairly bizarre definition

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-10-22 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any timeline for an emacs21 package? (We certainly need it by > the time woody freezes). How about right now? I uploaded them last night :> -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C5

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-10-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Browning wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the intent behind running `load-file' if debug-on-error > > is true? `load-file' differs from `load' in that it does not > > search the load-path; the full file path must be specified, which > > is not the case he

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-10-22 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the intent behind running `load-file' if debug-on-error > is true? `load-file' differs from `load' in that it does not > search the load-path; the full file path must be specified, which > is not the case here. > > If others agree, I'll file

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-10-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Browning wrote: > I'm about to be working hard on the emacs21 package which needs to be > done immediately, so expect to see a lot of noise out of me shortly. Good stuff! > On the bright side, I expect that *many* of the long-standing emacs20 > bugs will be ready for retirement -- I'm wond

Re: debian-startup.el question

2001-10-18 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm wondering what the rationale is for the following snippet of > code in debian-run-directories : > > (if debug-on-error > (load-file file) >(condition-case () >(load file nil) > (error

debian-startup.el question

2001-10-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm wondering what the rationale is for the following snippet of code in debian-run-directories : (if debug-on-error (load-file file) (condition-case () (load file nil) (error (message "Error while loading %s" file) What is the int