From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim McNamara Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs from CVS question Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 00:54:43 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070175632 32468 80.91.224.253 (30 Nov 2003 07:00:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:00:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 08:00:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQLZ5-0005SI-00 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:00:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AQMVh-0008DL-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 03:00:53 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!chiapp19.algx.com!allegiance!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!gemini.bitstream.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pl9QsLyPwoRW1W+0dymvV6RoFn4= Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 09075acb.news.bitstream.net Original-X-Trace: 1070175303 gemini.bitstream.net 1103 216.243.177.155 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@bitstream.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118791 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14734 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14734 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help >> From: Tim McNamara >> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:56:58 -0600 >> >> 1. The Emacs splash screen seems to be missing (I have a different >> build obtained through the Fink Project which does present the >> splash screen, v. 21.2.something) > > If you invoke Emacs with no arguments, you will see it. If it still > doesn't appear, try "emacs -q". Not that it's actually an issue, of course, it's cosmetic. However, as this was my first-ever build I wasn't sure if this indicated whether I did something incorrectly. Neither "emacs" or "emacs -q" results in the splash screen for Emacs (I do get the splash screen for Gnus, but that was separately obtained from gnus.org and not through CVS at Savannah). >> 3. CVS provides Gnus 5.9 rather than 5.10. > > The Emacs CVS has the version of Gnus that the Gnus maintainers > commit to the Emacs CVS. If you think it's time for a newer Gnus to > become part of the Emacs CVS, please talk to the Gnus maintainers > and ask them to do that. Well, 5.10 does have some functionality that 5.9 didn't have, and thus far seems stable and reliable. Might be worth a nudge to the Gnus team, to see if they think it's ready. There may be issues of which I am unaware. >> 7. In /usr/local/bin both emacs and emacs-21.3.50 were installed >> and appear to be identical- same size, date and when launched both >> provided teh same version information. Why was this- something I >> did with the installation? > > These file `emacs' should be actually a hard link to the file > `emacs-21.3.50' (assuming OS X supports them--I have no idea if it > does), so that you are looking at 2 different names for the same > file. > > This is how Emacs is built on every other platform. The intent is > that when you install a newer version, `emacs' gets linked to it, > while the older version is left behind, in case you want to > downgrade to it later. In other words, it's a feature. Interesting, and makes sense. Thank you!