From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:41:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84heaxy4a2.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5xfzqi4gik.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Actually, list-load-path-shadows is executed when you install Emacs.
>
> This requires that the conflicting files are named identically. The
> problem with CUA is that the old and new files have different names,
> and the file name has actually changed three times, so this is
> unfortunately not a viable option for CUA.
Ayee! I'm sorry. As you can see, I know very little about CUA.
(But I like it :-)
> Also, the shadowing may easily be introduced later if the user
> modifies the load-path in his own .emacs file.
Sure. But that's true for other packages, too.
>> IMHO it would be useful to make that output more prominent.
>>
>> Doesn't Emacs include a versioned site-lisp directory in the
>> load-path by default? So the installation instructions could suggest
>> to use that for such cases. But it could be that the directory is in
>> load-path only for versions > 21.3.
>
> That only works if all existing users have installed the old cua
> package in those directories (provided they exist). Not something
> I would rely on.
Of course. I meant it as an additional suggestion.
> I now have a pretty good working solution for CUA based on
> eval-after-load. I'll install it shortly.
Very good. Sorry for the line-noise.
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 21:03 Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code? Kim F. Storm
2003-02-20 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-20 22:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-21 21:44 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-21 23:20 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-22 0:28 ` Miles Bader
2003-02-22 22:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-22 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-20 21:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21 0:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-21 16:41 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-02-22 8:15 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-23 11:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-24 16:38 ` Richard Stallman
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