From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Load path and custom compiling cvs on Debian
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:46:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5spq8kF1aj9nnU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871w9k5vjl.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> John Wells wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> I've learned that anti-aliased fonts don't appear to be supported yet
>>> on 22, and I've also found that compiling the unicode branch out of
>>> CVS enables this support.
>>>
>>> I've done the compile and it works great...fonts look wonderful.
>>> However, the problem is the custom compiled emacs doesn't find all my
>>> pre-installed Debian packaged modes and utilities, like ecb,
>>> ruby-mode, etc.
>>>
>>> It appears that the dpkg's put the various installed files in:
>>>
>>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
>>> /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp
>>>
>>> Then, when I start emacs, these are already there, loaded.
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me what configurations settings I need to do to make
>>> these work with my custom compile? Is it a ./configure option? Is it
>>> some central emacs config file? Can I inspect where my custom compile
>>> is looking for modes easily through emacs itself?
>>
>> `C-h v load-path RET' will show you the directories that Emacs searches
>> for files to load. Try `C-h r' to browse the Emacs manual, then `i load
>> RET' to find out the details about how that works.
>>
>> Here's what you should put in your .emacs file to allow the packages
>> from Debian to be found:
>>
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp" t)
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp" t)
>>
>>> Sorry for so many questions...I'm learning quickly, but there's a lot to learn!
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> --
>
> You also need to modify startup.el so that it loads the config stuff in
> /etc/emacs/site-start.d and /etc/emacs22/site-start.d, otherwise, emacs
> will find the packages, but not the necessary stuff done to config/ and set
> them up.
>
> Tim
Do the snapshot repositories here include the aa?
http://emacs.orebokech.com/
My emacs fonts certainly look good but maybe I'm just too used to it
without aa?!? It's marked as "emacs 23" anyway and according to here
http://g33k.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/gnu-emacs-with-xft-goodness/
the unicode branch was to become emacs 23.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 17:46 Load path and custom compiling cvs on Debian John Wells
2007-12-14 18:23 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-14 19:44 ` John Wells
2007-12-14 22:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-15 4:28 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.5054.1197784667.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-18 7:09 ` Tim X
2007-12-18 11:46 ` Richard G Riley [this message]
2007-12-19 7:31 ` Tim X
[not found] <mailman.5036.1197654377.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-15 2:43 ` 方旭亮
2007-12-17 9:05 ` Tim X
2007-12-17 10:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2007-12-17 14:47 ` Sven Joachim
2007-12-19 7:26 ` Tim X
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