From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: understanding emacs packages Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:35:52 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87ejgb2pdz.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <1191413661.873145.69990@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <874ph8nwe1.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <1191420317.776020.58280@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191490978 3537 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2007 09:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:42:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 04 11:42:56 2007 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 1IdNEN-0002Gc-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdNEJ-0008SY-D5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:42:51 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!feeder.news-service.com!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-04!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nnFSTRGWMcDpaeNK9ZUZsR6GZ5U= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152602 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:48109 Archived-At: knubee writes: >> Why are you re-installing lisp packages? > > I recently upgraded from emacs 21.4 to 22. Some of the packages I used > were not part of the earlier distribution. I am trying to learn about > ways to check what is actually included in a distribution. Are slocate > or manual inspection of site-lisp the two main options? > ,----[ C-h k control h p ] | control h p runs the command finder-by-keyword | which is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `finder'. | It is bound to control h p , p , p , . | (finder-by-keyword) | | Find packages matching a given keyword. | | [back] `---- -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au