From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get web browsing functionality in emacs 23? Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:30:24 +1100 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <877hdqq8sf.fsf@rapttech.com.au> References: <0e39a0b4-0e75-406d-bf76-4267fc2c7bde@y16g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <877hdrtjb3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296168035 16576 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 22:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:40:35 +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 Jan 27 23:40:31 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiaVv-00020Q-83 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:40:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiaVu-0003sZ-QW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rx3XvRSuGid3kw4QhvWNcNvHFlw= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fc4c140b.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=0Ne[Ei1; ?2CTE2gdJ]P=SGL?0kYOcDh@J7^o:UA4R?cEG; jTe9??mMI]G; 2>V^?kWC48NP]Hm4n:I0W?b9JFR:oE@6Jb2E][gTI Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184638 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:78793 Archived-At: guivho writes: > Hi All, > > The problem was caused by an old emacs 22 that was still hanging > around as /usr/bin/emacs and was picked up by the configure script > being executed in eshell in my current emacs 23. Removing the stale > emacsen and replacing them with symlinks to the current version, > solved my problems. > Note that you should be very careful about running scripts inside eshell. While eshell is a great interactive shell, it is not a fully compliant shell. For example, it does not handle IO redirection. Many scripts use such techniques and will not run correctly. To make it worse, it will fail silently. Either use M-x shell, M-x term or run outside of emacs. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au