From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need help debuging my `.emacs` file
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:14:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh6lpbjh.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5871.1384243303.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com> writes:
> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
>> eccstartup <zhiwudazhanjiangshi@gmail.com> writes:
>> This line:
>>
>>> (require 'package)
>> is the problem. I also get:
>
> No it isn't :-) With emacs 24, that should work.
The operative word: "should" :)
>>> File error: Cannot open load file, package
>> Because I don't have it, and neither do you.
>
> You don't have it, but perhaps *his* Emacs just can't
> find it!
So perhaps the OP's `load-path' isn't set correctly?
> What OS are you using, OP?
>
>>> Should I download a package.el from
>>> http://marmalade-repo.org/ ?
>>
>> Yes
>
> No - not until you are sure it isn't already there
> somewhere on the system. Any 'package.el' on
> marmalade is not necessarily the package.el which
> comes bundled with emacs 24.
Well, if you download it and it works as expected I
don't see any reason to be paranoid about it. That's
what I would do, without hesitation. But for the purist
I suppose the right way is to understand why it doesn't
work as it is described in the documentation.
--
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-12 2:58 Need help debuging my `.emacs` file eccstartup
2013-11-12 3:04 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <CAKcmqqyS0JTy70p7bF3eCxfXuUPLF4CWFfoJyF_3PqZT6EUCEA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-12 3:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-12 7:37 ` Glyn Millington
2013-11-13 5:47 ` Jude DaShiell
[not found] ` <mailman.5871.1384243303.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-12 21:14 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
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