From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs22, Emacs23, and symlinks Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:45:09 -0700 Message-ID: <87vdwqwkyi.fsf@rosslaird.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221947159 3833 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2008 21:45:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:45:59 +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 Sep 20 23:46:56 2008 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 1KhAHx-0002HA-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:46:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhAGw-0007mm-30 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhAGf-0007mX-45 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:45:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhAGe-0007mH-Bs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60680 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhAGe-0007mE-72 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48714 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KhAGd-0006EZ-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KhAGU-00034O-Pw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:45:18 +0000 Original-Received: from h24-207-48-89.dlt.dccnet.com ([24.207.48.89]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:45:18 +0000 Original-Received: from ross by h24-207-48-89.dlt.dccnet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:45:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h24-207-48-89.dlt.dccnet.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vei06FY3oFqVedeBp2Cg5so3iT0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:57860 Archived-At: I am using Ubuntu Gutsy, and I have (somewhat unintentionally) installed both emacs22 and emacs23 (as emacs-snapshot-gtk) on my system. The command 'emacs' (usr/bin/emacs) points to: /etc/alternatives/emacs22 In turn, the above points back (to /usr/bin) to: /usr/bin/emacs22 So, when I run 'emacs' from the command prompt or alt-f2, I get emacs22 instead of emacs-snapshot-gtk. (And, 22 complains about fonts in .Xresources.) I know that I can change these symlinks (to point to emacs-snapshot); but before doing so, I wanted to check that I wouldn't be doing any unintended harm by way of this change. I suppose I could uninstall emacs22 as well (since I use 23), and I only ended up with 22 because of an associated lisp install from apt; but again, before doing so, I thought I would check. Any cautions or suggestions? Thanks. Ross -- Ross A. Laird, PhD www.rosslaird.info