From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: understanding emacs packages Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:40:07 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87k5q4ky08.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <1191413661.873145.69990@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <874ph8nwe1.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <1191420317.776020.58280@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191429647 10701 80.91.229.12 (3 Oct 2007 16:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 18:40:44 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 1Id7H9-0008Ri-6h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Id7H4-00082y-Jb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1191426179 10611 132.183.29.121 (3 Oct 2007 15:42:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:42:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ApRBDbHOOK50leZEFt3Kd7WTwMQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152573 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:48082 Archived-At: knubee writes: >> Why are you re-installing lisp packages? > > I recently upgraded from emacs 21.4 to 22. Some of the packages I used > were not part of the earlier distribution. I am trying to learn about > ways to check what is actually included in a distribution. Are slocate > or manual inspection of site-lisp the two main options? Those would be the *best* options: "manual inspection" is spelled "M-x dired RET /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp RET C-s planner" to find planner.el. It's not terribly "manual" ;) Slocate is just "slocate planner.el" and as long as the database is up to date, it should find it in seconds. On my machine, if they are part of the Emacs distribution (e.g., Gnus), then they are in the directory corresponding to the version number (23 in my case). If they are not, then they are in site-lisp. Most are single .el files, some with matching .elc files. Some are directories that include .el and .elc files. >> What feature of your Linux distro would interact with Emacs packages? > > I ask because I do not know. Sorry to be so didactic: what I meant was I'm not aware of anything system wide that would affect the installation of Emacs packages. But then again, I stopped using package managers a while ago. There may very well be something in Ubuntu that puts the packages somewhere else. >> > - Does this mean that "planner-el" is an elisp implementation of >> > "planner"? >> >> Is there another possible implementation of planner? > > Um. let me rephrase my question: is planner-el a *replacement* for > "planner" -- or does it *rely* on it? What files are contained in this "planner-el" package? Sounds like it may be the same thing and just have two different names. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109