From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard G Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Load path and custom compiling cvs on Debian Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:46:25 +0100 Message-ID: <5spq8kF1aj9nnU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> References: <44dddf400712140946l5df0fe41jf73948e7552467bd@mail.gmail.com> <871w9k5vjl.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197981661 29279 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2007 12:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:41:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 18 13:41:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J4bkw-0007DZ-TV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:41:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4bkd-0005Vk-HC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:40:47 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 61 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de f/023A3x7qUeKfaO+Q5uOQQjZCum47n1BKGj5hTjrjQH0Sil8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50.6 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154749 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50174 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > Kevin Rodgers 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.