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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eval-after-load causes void-variable error
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:08:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-4FBF97.13083818012013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bp8a9s6z85r.fsf@usca1uw-JZWWPM1.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com

In article <bp8a9s6z85r.fsf@usca1uw-JZWWPM1.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com>,
 Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> > Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> >> I'm still running Emacs 22.2, it's the first non-comment in the file.
> >
> > I see.
> >
> > I'm still surprised, though, that neither you nor the OP mentioned
> > you're using a years-old version of Emacs.
> 
> 23.1 here.  It's the most recent pre-built version offered by my version
> of Ubuntu.
> 
> I've tried to build Emacs 24 the old-fashioned way on a few occasions,
> but it's an enormous pain in the ass for some reason.

My problem with upgrading is that I have an enormous collection of 
extensions that I copied when I left a former employer (about 15 years 
ago). When I tried to compile and load them in Emacs 24, too much stuff 
broke, and I've never had the time to try to debug it all.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-18 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-17 23:53 eval-after-load causes void-variable error Sean McAfee
2013-01-18  0:07 ` Barry Margolin
2013-01-18  1:35   ` Le Wang
2013-01-18  3:21   ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found]   ` <mailman.17773.1358479324.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-18  5:15     ` Barry Margolin
2013-01-18  7:19       ` Dmitry Gutov
     [not found]       ` <mailman.17789.1358493580.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-18 17:57         ` Sean McAfee
2013-01-18 18:08           ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-01-18 19:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.17839.1358535836.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-18 19:17               ` Barry Margolin
2013-01-18 18:34           ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-18 18:00         ` Barry Margolin

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