From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TAGS Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:53:25 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <1295770357.17014.13.camel@sentient> <3B9F7AF4-C411-45F9-8C99-C9ED89F53816@Web.DE> <82A89F07-5B97-4260-9985-59DF8E6721C0@gmail.com> <5CA8A193-E939-484F-B127-353E29E89990@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295844046 19220 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2011 04:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 24 05:40:42 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 1PhEEL-0006bP-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhEEL-0007Zn-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1295841205 29434 127.0.0.1 (24 Jan 2011 03:53:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184529 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:78691 Archived-At: On Jan 24, 5:59=A0am, simon cossar wrote: > Hi all, after a bit of searching...the emacs .el files are available > through the ubuntu/emacs ppa. Did you install emacs23-el? http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/emacs23-el And you did you wont need ppa... etags If you did and you dont get the el files still you probably have a ubuntu packaging bug Please let me know -- What are all the emacs-related packages you have installed? ppa.. will give you unnecessary dependency-hell at a later point [Sorry for my first answer: I thought you wanted the C-builtins -- ignore] > In case anyone is as ignorant as I am (I > am assuming this is archived) the files are compressed and need to be > extracted BEFORE you can create a functioning tags table. > Simon If emacs is setup correctly the el files can stay compressed and emacs will unzip before open-ing then.