From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [beginner] better-defaults not found Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:02:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4CFVl405pcz9rxQ@submission02.posteo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24988"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: c.buhtz@posteo.jp, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 20 01:03:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kUeC1-0006M1-3Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2020 01:03:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52430 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUeBy-00051f-BN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUeAT-0004nZ-Fc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:02:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ed1-x536.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::536]:34995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kUeAR-000687-Ik for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:02:17 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ed1-x536.google.com with SMTP id cq12so1024283edb.2 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:02:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=T1Uyu93xrBjg59WaTBSxM1hJzPnJhNodUUno7lj0XZ8=; b=R3kybMgmcnZuUDkwAuiccz/XHxjPiP2pFWj357yPtEKWrqyI2zCPpy0K2t5m0lFm08 H1WhO/qPxhh4EMD7YJ3BBBrfjVuLSPOQV12xy/oPXkYaNG6Kb3WZDnZA+UQluWBFIF5a SaAKIFkqX0L+BTr4nfoTXzBvZ511qhG0+83M02/EyMnNzWhBmXS47H8HQREQetdRLIV/ y7KYcHJjCfz8so/NmJvo1uFr2snS5WB1EiRZWUXHMYOKzodBeDE2scPvKCu2VCYIQikW HeWwbxvKM/phPcz3kToe/9pgkCzzxu+PoSad8ltkP3LBK+mSnhO+vFLh34Ff0XEEsE6Q 3EAw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=T1Uyu93xrBjg59WaTBSxM1hJzPnJhNodUUno7lj0XZ8=; b=YhbfKUkIDa7M3Zm9PI9/NTmftV3Mizp/AL+wI6vvkdDPaR3mpS6LyXGzK4o6X3i5MI DUV9e1iLFFb4x2fmgt8J2PhWlNkzpTvThtRCi7OglHLs917lg61xGuw/thst+QiBd78I Q6yFWEI9tSzudHJ+/sA3MNi5M9a6T86CLCC61hj5VdYdiDnaKk5BD8welsGQ4qBqob43 0YtxO0scO76lE+gwbBjO6YsAFS1LPFKZ48oBlQWbpn6w8eSdUrA3MeuaZLI/lwY3l4/V eRvFiEkgd3eXBi/UDjOaEU/6vhfKhKyIx3pZfTxSoCcdJbLk/uhI0fdOdkSaTCDt8AaU ghbw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532mkDWilASyHHTEesfNAcqlyjDNaIXzfJzI1t8UHq32bLJHdY8A 5/4KWmWRQo116ZG2qhq551k4gZ3XN0d4gYxOheo= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJx/GsebW+TP4zRP44q93GpfPOyv3mpNRSWRUSoDHWXcXgI4qxLuXyPnPcESwxi0Ey2ED3DK69Lcur36pUlEyoU= X-Received: by 2002:aa7:d783:: with SMTP id s3mr2250100edq.214.1603148533916; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:02:13 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4CFVl405pcz9rxQ@submission02.posteo.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::536; envelope-from=stefankangas@gmail.com; helo=mail-ed1-x536.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. 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X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124593 Archived-At: writes: > I tried to edit my ~/.emacs file (on Debian 10 stable) based on that > emacs-for-python-tutorial > https://realpython.com/emacs-the-best-python-editor/#initialization-file > > When re-starting emacs I got the error that > > /better-defaults-20170614.404.el, Not found > > First of all I am confused about the version number because melpa.org > shows me "20200717.2012" for that package. I can understand that the > current package is not found. But I do not understand where the old > version number emacs using for this package comes from. This does indeed look strange. What version of Emacs is this? Do you perhaps have some old package lying around in "~/.emacs.d/elpa"? Or in any of the directories in the `package-directory-list' variable? You could try invoking "emacs --debug-init" to see if the backtrace tells you something interesting.