From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 26.3 strange ESS init error regarding Projectile and project root.
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:59:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtrnsg4l.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89EB7E56-7F5F-45E0-917E-038E32676F50@gmail.com> (Carlo Tambuatco's message of "Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:43:10 -0400")
Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com> writes:
> I probably will report this issue to them soon. But the strange thing is,
> on my other computer, a Mac, I run emacs 28.0.50, a newer version than
> the emacs 26.3 version I run that is giving me this problem. But I use the
> same version of ESS on 28.0.50, which gives me no problems whatsoever
> on that newer version of emacs.
>
> Something tells me they took ESS in a different direction with no thoughts
> on backwards compatibility.
project.el should be compatible with Emacs 26.3, if not that would be
considered a bug.
> In the meantime, I would like to perhaps down
> grade the ESS version to a version that defininately works on emacs 26.3.
> Is there a way to do that with elpa…?
Not directly, you could checkout the repository on an older version,
then package-from-buffer the elisp directory.
>> On Jun 17, 2021, at 3:56 AM, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>>
>> Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, reinstalling ESS did not solve the problem. I even tried
>>> uninstalling
>>> and reinstalling emacs itself to no avail. I don't know when this problem
>>> occurred
>>> or why but the combination of ESS and emacs-26.3 simply does not work. For
>>> some reason, the ESS package still gives me this error:
>>>
>>> "project-root is already defined as something else than a generic function"
>>
>> Have you reported this issue to the ESS developers? From what I see they
>> appear do be doing something wrong, as project-root is a generic
>> function defined in the core, and they are apparently trying to
>> use the same symbol for a regular function.
>>
>> --
>> Philip K.
>
--
Philip K.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-07 6:57 Emacs 26.3 strange ESS init error regarding Projectile and project root Carlo Tambuatco
2021-06-07 10:16 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-06-07 11:04 ` Carlo Tambuatco
2021-06-07 11:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-06-17 4:46 ` Carlo Tambuatco
2021-06-17 7:56 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-06-17 15:43 ` Carlo Tambuatco
2021-06-18 8:59 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
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