From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Bonow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23 & Debian Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:03:41 +0200 Message-ID: <871vp8hvpu.fsf@withouthat.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245966099 19058 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 21:41:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:41:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 23:41:32 2009 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 1MJwhH-0005Ub-Ck for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJwhG-0001u7-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:41:30 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: news.dfncis.de 32TzvxD3ozrMQYQ1VXzGXw6+KClk2M8GMUSG/9PRYbtPfMXSy7Qu/sb62g Cancel-Lock: sha1:r45pb/kbBFmOGkBZl/tDpzbEQmM= sha1:bQBFhITPZk3k62uVRU2Y2LSbkuU= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170306 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:65526 Archived-At: >>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Badgley writes: Benjamin> The bottom line for me was to dump debian emacs and follow the Benjamin> simple enough instructions available from Google to get from cvs Benjamin> and compile. It really is not that difficult. Benjamin> Both: 1. Dump the Debian Emacs. 2. Do the cvs thing, ./configure, Benjamin> make, make install. "It's easy. :-)" Benjamin> Alrighty then, ... :-) They forgot to tell you that if you drop out of packaging, you'll have to install, upgrade and maintain all the other things which make emacs so valuable (Emacs is the extensible, ...) by hand, too. I'm talking w3m, mew, cedet/semantic, xcscope, etc. Go ahead, I did it for years. But now, with limited time, I don't want to miss the advantages of packages. You have been warned. Toto -- I never said "Do what I do", I said: "Do what I say." Seth Gecko (George Clooney) in Quentin Tarantino's 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (1996)