From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diffs between a buffer and the underlying file Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <87bqp9hn48.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160858477 5587 80.91.229.2 (14 Oct 2006 20:41:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:41:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 14 22:41:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYqJn-0001IG-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GYqJm-0004iX-S8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:41:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 68 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1160855785 12239 166.84.1.2 (14 Oct 2006 19:56:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:56:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142417 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38041 Archived-At: In article <87bqp9hn48.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au>, Tim X wrote: >John Sullivan writes: > >> Urs Thuermann writes: >> >>> OK, thanks. Debian doesn't have Emacs 22 yet, BTW. >> >> aptitude install emacs-snapshot >> >> (at least I know it's in unstable, not sure about testing) >> >> -- >> -John Sullivan >> -http://www.wjsullivan.net >> -GPG Key: AE8600B6 >> >> >> > >Its not in testing, but it is in unstable. So, to get emacs-snapshot >(aka emacs 22 CVS) on a Debian testing system, put the following in >your /etc/apt/conf.d directory (call it something appropriate like >05local, so that it is loaded at an appropriate time) > >APT::Default-Release "testing"; > >this will ensure aptitude (or apt) will give preference to packages >from testing rather than unstable and stop heaps of packages from >getting updated from the unstable repository. > >Then you need to add an unstable repository to your >/etc/apt/sources.list > >then, to install emacs 22 from unstable, but keep everything else from >testing, all you need to do is an > >aptitude update >aptitude install emacs-snapshot > >and your away. You will then get updated emacs snapshots every week or >so as they are updated from CVS. I've been running it for months now >and it is very stable - you can even try emacs-snapshot-gtk to get the >one built with the gtk widgets (though I don't think it is quite as >stable). > >HTH > >Tim >-- >tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au And what if you want to use it for solaris/sparc? What adjustments to the above need to be made? Plus, an exact "cut-n-paste" cvs-cmd (line, switches, etc) for downloading a newest-hottest-experimental-emacs.tar.gz -- ie, cvs command-line that's usable -- WITHOUT HAVING TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CVS (or whatever). THANKS David