From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Updating from Emacs 23.3.1 to 25.3 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:39:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <002701d3411c$7568d290$603a77b0$@net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507603197 5532 195.159.176.226 (10 Oct 2017 02:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 02:39:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 10 04:39:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e1kST-0000FJ-Lx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 04:39:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1kSZ-0002ev-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1kRz-0002e9-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1kRw-0002MN-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59656 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e1kRv-0002LF-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e1kRi-00034U-MS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 04:39:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KCnV/sBbg4UOATojkHepDpGwrms= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114527 Archived-At: > I know I have to do that, I just think I need someone here with me to walk > me thru it. We can easily do that over email. > I already have 25.3 on my computer, in an Emacs1 directory, but > the directory structure is so different, That's hard to believe. The directory structure hasn't changed much between 23 and 25. > I have so much in my .emacs, and I need updated versions of many of > the procedures and am not sure where to get them all. There's usually very little that needs to be changed when upgrading, even for releases that are several years apart, as in your case. Stefan