Re: problems with Emacs 28

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:50:02 +0200
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> I rebuilt a new Emacs, namely
> 
>    GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>    3.24.5, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-10-23
> 
> because I wanted an Emacs with support for modules (in particular,
> vterm), which isn't possible to get from the Debian repos, IIUC.
> 
> Two issues:
> 
> 1) suddenly no `markdown-mode'? but there is a markdown-mode pack in
>    MELPA, which seems to work OOTB. but as a side not, to move major
>    modes out of core Emacs seems like a bad idea, since they are
>    Emacs' back bone, and besides cannot amount to many bytes, as they
>    are just text. I take it spcific reasons made you do it?

markdown-mode was never in core Emacs.  You need to look at how you
imported it, perhaps you've put the Lisp files in a directory that
Emacs 28 doesn't search by default.

> 2) a lot of errors like this:
> 
>      global-keys.el: 
>      In toplevel form:
>      global-keys.el:8:1: Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, w3m-bookmark

Looks like the same problem as 1).  Somehow the files you expect to be
available are not on load-path.