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: Load path and custom compiling cvs on Debian Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:31:06 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87sl1z3zut.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <44dddf400712140946l5df0fe41jf73948e7552467bd@mail.gmail.com> <871w9k5vjl.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <5spq8kF1aj9nnU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198050081 5079 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2007 07:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:41:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 19 08:41:32 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 1J4tYZ-0007uM-P8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:41:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4tYG-0007KR-GO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:41:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-03!sn-post-ams-01!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/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZcH6xnK4RNduGLST9W/+uUbIwwg= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 72 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154774 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:50200 Archived-At: Richard G Riley writes: > Tim X writes: > >> Kevin Rodgers writes: >> >>> John Wells wrote: >>>> Guys, >>>> >>>> I've learned that anti-aliased fonts don't appear to be supported yet >>>> on 22, and I've also found that compiling the unicode branch out of >>>> CVS enables this support. >>>> >>>> I've done the compile and it works great...fonts look wonderful. >>>> However, the problem is the custom compiled emacs doesn't find all my >>>> pre-installed Debian packaged modes and utilities, like ecb, >>>> ruby-mode, etc. >>>> >>>> It appears that the dpkg's put the various installed files in: >>>> >>>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp >>>> /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp >>>> >>>> Then, when I start emacs, these are already there, loaded. >>>> >>>> Can someone tell me what configurations settings I need to do to make >>>> these work with my custom compile? Is it a ./configure option? Is it >>>> some central emacs config file? Can I inspect where my custom compile >>>> is looking for modes easily through emacs itself? >>> >>> `C-h v load-path RET' will show you the directories that Emacs searches >>> for files to load. Try `C-h r' to browse the Emacs manual, then `i load >>> RET' to find out the details about how that works. >>> >>> Here's what you should put in your .emacs file to allow the packages >>> from Debian to be found: >>> >>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp" t) >>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp" t) >>> >>>> Sorry for so many questions...I'm learning quickly, but there's a lot to learn! >>> >>> Enjoy! >>> >>> -- >> >> You also need to modify startup.el so that it loads the config stuff in >> /etc/emacs/site-start.d and /etc/emacs22/site-start.d, otherwise, emacs >> will find the packages, but not the necessary stuff done to config/ and set >> them up. >> >> Tim > > Do the snapshot repositories here include the aa? > > http://emacs.orebokech.com/ > > > My emacs fonts certainly look good but maybe I'm just too used to it > without aa?!? It's marked as "emacs 23" anyway and according to here > http://g33k.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/gnu-emacs-with-xft-goodness/ > the unicode branch was to become emacs 23. > I haven't used romain's packages since the official debian emacs22 was released (see other post). However, I seem to remember seeing someone state that they do. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au