VM on Emacs 26?

VM on Emacs 26?

[Skip Montanaro]

I don't use vm a ton anymore, just to work through the unsure messages held
by SpamBayes for mail.python.org. Alas, upgrading from Emacs 25 to 26 the
other day seems to have borked vm. I do have it installed on my Ubuntu
18.04 system:

vm/bionic,bionic,now 8.2.0b-2.1 all [installed]
  mail user agent for Emacs

but Emacs 26 is clearly not finding it. Any suggestions?

Skip

Re: VM on Emacs 26?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:23:27 -0600, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> said:

    Skip> I don't use vm a ton anymore, just to work through the unsure messages held
    Skip> by SpamBayes for mail.python.org. Alas, upgrading from Emacs 25 to 26 the
    Skip> other day seems to have borked vm. I do have it installed on my Ubuntu
    Skip> 18.04 system:

    Skip> vm/bionic,bionic,now 8.2.0b-2.1 all [installed]
    Skip>   mail user agent for Emacs

    Skip> but Emacs 26 is clearly not finding it. Any suggestions?

Iʼd inspect the load-path on emacs25 to see where VM is installed, and
then grep to find which init file sets up that path. Quite possibly
itʼs an init file only used by your emacs25 installation.

Robert

Re: VM on Emacs 26?

[Sven Joachim]

On 2020-01-23 07:23 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:

> I don't use vm a ton anymore, just to work through the unsure messages held
> by SpamBayes for mail.python.org. Alas, upgrading from Emacs 25 to 26 the
> other day seems to have borked vm. I do have it installed on my Ubuntu
> 18.04 system:
>
> vm/bionic,bionic,now 8.2.0b-2.1 all [installed]
>   mail user agent for Emacs
>
> but Emacs 26 is clearly not finding it. Any suggestions?

That's probably Debian bug #900813[1].  I would suggest to install the
package from disco[2] where this is fixed.


1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900813
2. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vm/8.2.0b-5

Re: VM on Emacs 26?

[George Hartzell]

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > I don't use vm a ton anymore, just to work through the unsure messages held
 > by SpamBayes for mail.python.org. Alas, upgrading from Emacs 25 to 26 the
 > other day seems to have borked vm. I do have it installed on my Ubuntu
 > 18.04 system:
 > 
 > vm/bionic,bionic,now 8.2.0b-2.1 all [installed]
 >   mail user agent for Emacs
 > 
 > but Emacs 26 is clearly not finding it. Any suggestions?
 > 
 > Skip
 > 
 > 
 > 

I'm running it in emacs 26.3 on a mac (via homebrew), so it can be
made to work.

[My config][config] uses [straight.el] to manage it's dependencies.

Here's the interesting bit of the vm setup.

```lisp
(use-package vm
  :straight (vm :type git :host github :repo "emacsmirror/vm"
                :fork (:host github
                             :repo "hartzell/vm"
                             :branch "oldie"
                             ;; :branch "wip"
                             )
                :no-byte-compile t
                :files (:defaults "lisp/*.elc")
                )
  :commands (vm)

  :init
  (require 'cl)
  :config
  ;; Make VM your default mail agent in Emacs
  (setq mail-user-agent 'vm-user-agent)

  ;; Many many configuratinos things redacted
  ;; (setq vm-berkeley-mail-compatibility t)
  ;; ....

  (add-hook 'vm-mode-hook
            '(lambda ()
               (setq vm-visible-headers
                     (append vm-visible-headers (list "X-Spam-Status:")))
               ;; more stuff redacted
               ;; ...
               ))

  ;; ...
  )
```

g.


[straight.el]: https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
[config]: https://github.com/hartzell/.emacs.d

Re: VM on Emacs 26?

[Stefan Monnier]

>   (add-hook 'vm-mode-hook
>             '(lambda ()

Please don't quote your lambdas,


        Stefan

Re: VM on Emacs 26?

[Pieter van Oostrum]

Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't use vm a ton anymore, just to work through the unsure messages held
> by SpamBayes for mail.python.org. Alas, upgrading from Emacs 25 to 26 the
> other day seems to have borked vm. I do have it installed on my Ubuntu
> 18.04 system:
>
> vm/bionic,bionic,now 8.2.0b-2.1 all [installed]
>   mail user agent for Emacs
>
> but Emacs 26 is clearly not finding it. Any suggestions?
>
> Skip

I have been running VM for a long time on Emacs 26, and now on Emacs 27. It is my main email reader/writer. It is just running fine.

I got it from the trunk on launchpad  https://launchpad.net/vm/trunk with bzr.
I just put the whole directory in my site-lisp (on my mac that is ~/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp/vm-trunk/lisp), but on your Linux system it will surely be somewhere else.

I only had to apply a patch to get it working.

--- lisp/vm-mime.el     2013-02-15 08:44:48 +0000
+++ lisp/vm-mime.el     2013-06-02 14:46:59 +0000
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@
     (save-excursion
       (setq start (point-min))
       (while (not done)
-       (setq charset (get-text-property start 'vm-charset))
+       (setq charset (or (get-text-property start 'vm-charset) "us-ascii"))
        (setq pos (next-single-property-change start 'vm-charset))
        (or pos (setq pos (point-max) done t))
        (if charset

-- 
Pieter van Oostrum
www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/
PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4]

Re: VM on Emacs 26?

[Skip Montanaro]

>
> I have been running VM for a long time on Emacs 26, and now on Emacs 27.
> It is my main email reader/writer. It is just running fine.
>
> I got it from the trunk on launchpad  https://launchpad.net/vm/trunk with
> bzr.
> I just put the whole directory in my site-lisp (on my mac that is
> ~/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp/vm-trunk/lisp), but on your
> Linux system it will surely be somewhere else.
>

Thanks. I've now got it working as well. I wasn't sure what to do with the
posted Launchpad URL, so took the coward's way out and just upgraded from
Ubuntu 18.04LTS to 19.04. Even with that change I needed to visit the
installation directory and run "make" to generate vm-autoloads.el.

Skip

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