From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A few problems Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:05:32 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <873a8ubbtv.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: <87d480p89x.fsf@pau.opera.bk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247910129 30192 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2009 09:42:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:42:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 18 11:42:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MS6Qa-000411-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:42:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MS6Qa-0001Df-1T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:42:00 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 9pdjLZbmPZMOgR73KwpOqwOJ2aJRLmB8uxDLK3Z1DhWhO4HG0fMK5fzYEf Cancel-Lock: sha1:wJvW0eAczR3o81Q4I4IzQq/YQig= In-Reply-To: <87d480p89x.fsf@pau.opera.bk> Mail-Followup-To: anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171010 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66198 Archived-At: At Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:34:03 GMT, Marco Paunescu wrote: > > Hello, since I've done recent ubuntu upgrade emacs hasn't been reading > color rules from .Xresources (done xrdb -merge already) and bbdb hasn't > been working any more, thou installed (and reinstalled). > > I have versions 21, 22 and 23 installed, and actually only 22 loads > gnus, the others give > > run-hooks: Symbol's function definition is void: bbdb-insinuate-gnus > > Can we solve these problems? BBDB works fine for me on Jaunty with the emacs-snapshot package. I've got this file on my machine: /usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-autoloads.elc which gets loaded by /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50bbdb.el For my emacs23 instance. You should have a bbdb-autoloads.elc for every emacsen installed. Did you try reinstalling the bbdb package? Can you call BBDB after starting up without customizations with emacs-snapshot -Q? Do your color settings from .Xresources work then? If not, could you post them here? That being said, it can be tough to keep different versions of emacs running on the same machine. An extension package that you installed with the package manager might shadow definitions in a newer emacs version that comes with this package by default. I had problems with the emacs-goodies package, TRAMP and just yesterday with SLIME which ships its own version of tree-widget. This stuff is easier to handle if you just have one version of emacs installed, e.g. org-mode comes with emacs23, so you know that you don't need to install the org-mode ubuntu package, which might or might not cause problems. Is there a reason you need all of these emacsen on your machine? I'd recommend that you stay with the newest version, it's stable enough to use. HTH, Anselm -- Anselm Helbig mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com