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From: ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs22, Emacs23, and symlinks
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:45:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdwqwkyi.fsf@rosslaird.info> (raw)


I am using Ubuntu Gutsy, and I have (somewhat unintentionally) installed
both emacs22 and emacs23 (as emacs-snapshot-gtk) on my system. The
command 'emacs' (usr/bin/emacs) points to:

/etc/alternatives/emacs22

In turn, the above points back (to /usr/bin) to:

/usr/bin/emacs22

So, when I run 'emacs' from the command prompt or alt-f2, I get emacs22
instead of emacs-snapshot-gtk. (And, 22 complains about fonts in
.Xresources.)

I know that I can change these symlinks (to point to emacs-snapshot);
but before doing so, I wanted to check that I wouldn't be doing any
unintended harm by way of this change. I suppose I could uninstall
emacs22 as well (since I use 23), and I only ended up with 22 because of
an associated lisp install from apt; but again, before doing so, I
thought I would check.

Any cautions or suggestions?

Thanks.

Ross

-- 
Ross A. Laird, PhD
www.rosslaird.info









             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-20 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-20 21:45 Ross A. Laird [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.19625.1221947130.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-20 22:16 ` Emacs22, Emacs23, and symlinks rustom
2008-09-21  1:21   ` Ross A. Laird
     [not found]   ` <mailman.19630.1221960144.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-21  4:11     ` rustom
2008-09-21  4:58       ` Ross A. Laird
2008-09-21  5:02       ` Ross A. Laird
2008-09-21  5:00     ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-09-21  6:05       ` Ross A. Laird
2008-09-21  9:05 ` Tim X

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