From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: S Boucher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Updating to Emacs 24 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 08:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1317827660.48196.YahooMailNeo@web161616.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <86ehysb91q.fsf@googlemail.com> Reply-To: S Boucher 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 1317827678 30823 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2011 15:14:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:14:38 +0000 (UTC) To: Thorsten , "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 17:14:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBTB1-0005S1-C8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:14:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBTB0-0000lo-Qb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55163) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBTAt-0000lW-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBTAr-0006JH-V5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from nm40-vm7.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com ([72.30.239.215]:41308) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBTAr-0006J9-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [98.139.212.145] by nm40.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Oct 2011 15:14:20 -0000 Original-Received: from [98.139.212.249] by tm2.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Oct 2011 15:14:20 -0000 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1058.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Oct 2011 15:14:20 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 808332.86370.bm@omp1058.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Original-Received: (qmail 48252 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Oct 2011 15:14:20 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1317827660; bh=5CMuQrd1+jXTmITv8g1dVODHciw6GOXaCRjvdBhI5WU=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=dL3jwTJcqdaKoeyR7aGyv4453YAS65LMLCw7FrOM31ac2dviaQtAUF4W7rHg83M77pcYje4BAObKxCaeeTeFK5dD7mCTRGflBo15xks9rG4udINvIl+BT3oQJPC+OZc4d2G+4g5jVscJ0aOJvQ9thBp7n5iowVlssQ8bh6EunSk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=U6WZqVv4dUjKhuqcVehKXRp4FEM6w708utIbXAgsCfDhxByfUf7QqYX5OVMWEKfakBQN6SKfXbuc/Sug1SOaY+ryFHtRMjJaOtbGVErHAqjIzS5INsieiiif+Z0mvrCaTk5CDMWY8qfxUJK0UELn8BR23TuwuZYvunifPoi0DNs=; X-YMail-OSG: szPYPJgVM1m.l5G3CS34gdvtw7qfr0N9opRctO6SY5nJXb4 aWx0zGDr2IEaAnjVkbW1SaPHdxKHZPp1h0EsOiU1XMpHuJBvqd4VAGxIVYUW KrXnBcTLPSR0y0r6u8SdrFyYo99u3CvfY9G4zcFEN6WOjxYeTeoxHAZ5sUCq f9sLGDdk1ofPICdnT_VKre.e1Y0yqsY0deoQEfatrc1nGE3LWp.qCjYw9lCJ akoguJeHQEgc32PMxYqXw0l4_EMNV3UuKhHKX1btpHoYpT0L_15O4EMcdvpB .xJBlrbh9yenwawB_thAr3RCxUA6Di53ZsTEdp76I_ak.Vcf.ISLQEP9Dbwv c8lGuO3oc4VWfx0zn7gjwGAGWt7Y6huuJhKrSHUIp7tmFBxd0RU3RSDkyntB kp6uJ9w_T7AO8MgWVofvQhL3HHcNyZxZ3yK6ALa1VqySKNTzsfbZp9syanO9 MVKKhZokw8PymcBZyOK9mjjczQdKc4bOiQRSFDsuyz3ofeDZS Original-Received: from [98.136.145.201] by web161616.mail.bf1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:14:20 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.114.317681 In-Reply-To: <86ehysb91q.fsf@googlemail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 72.30.239.215 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82481 Archived-At: =0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message -----=0A=0A> I downloaded the Pretest ve= rsion of Emacs 24, having Emacs 23.1.1=0A> installed on Ubuntu. Before I me= ss up my whole configuration, I thought=0A> I rather ask a few (quite basic= ) questions here:=0A> =0A> 1. do I have to uninstall Emacs 23.1.1 before in= stalling Emacs 24?=0A=0ANo.=0A=0Amkdir /some/dir/for/emacs24=0Acd /some/dir= /for/emacs24=0Amkdir soft=0Atar xzf emacs-24.tgz=0Acd emacs=0A./configure -= -prefix=3D`cd ../soft&&pwd`=0Amake all=0Amake install=0A=0ANote: In the pro= cess of configuring you might have to install additional package using syna= ptic to be able to compile emacs.=0A=0AThen run with /some/dir/for/emacs24/= soft/bin/emacs=0A=0Aor do=0A=0Aexport PATH=3D/some/dir/for/emacs24/soft/bin= :$PATH=0Aand run emacs=0A=0ACaveats:=0A- you may or may not have problems w= ith private .elc files=0A- maybe some config/data files might get upgrade t= o 24, and they might then not work if you go back to 23=0A=0AI don't know h= ow real those caveats are.=0A=0A> 2. I load most .el files from my .emacs.d= e, which is in my Dropbox-folder=0A> and therefore accesible from my Linux = and my Win 7 machine, and not from the=0A> /usr/share/emacs directories - w= ill this configuration be messed up by=0A> the new installation?=0A=0ASee m= y caveats.=A0 I can't answer with confidence on private config/data files.= =0A=0A> 3. should I change from Ubuntu 32 to 64, are there no problems with= the=0A> 64bit version?=0A=0AThat seems unrelated to emacs.=A0 But linux di= stros work quite well on 64bits... provided you have a 64bit processor :-)