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From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
To: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where has a cool feature gone?
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 12:32:45 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yjnhvg2.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG9ihEuv95-H_fr3MoAe2z656NUarH3UxvWDQuRgZ_uiErgi0A@mail.gmail.com> (Davin Pearson's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:10:52 +1200")

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Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:

> Here are my attempts to install Gnu Guix:
> None of them work!
>
> www@www-HP-EliteBook-840-G2:~$ sudo apt-get Guix
> [sudo] password for www:
> E: Invalid operation Guix
> www@www-HP-EliteBook-840-G2:~$ sudo apt-get GNU Guix
> E: Invalid operation GNU
> www@www-HP-EliteBook-840-G2:~$ sudo apt-get "GNU Guix"
> E: Invalid operation GNU Guix
> www@www-HP-EliteBook-840-G2:~$ sudo apt-get install "GNU Guix"
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package GNU Guix
> www@www-HP-EliteBook-840-G2:~$ sudo apt-get install Guix
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package Guix

Maybe "sudo apt install guix" will work.  I'm not sure.

But be sure to check out the following, it will work for almost all
Linux (kernel) based OS:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html

After installing Guix, make sure to check out the manual, it contains
much more information.

>
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2022 at 23:04, Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> wrote:
>
>> Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > In another version of emacs the third argument to add-hook can be a
>> > number between -70 and 70, like so:
>> >
>> > (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'dmp-find-file-hook 70)
>> >
>> > In the version of emacs that I am currently using (26.3) it turns non
>> > nil third arguments to t otherwise leave nil as nil.
>> >
>> > Having numbers for the third argument seems like you have more
>> > flexibility in order of the sequences of hooks to your hook variables.
>> >
>> > Do I need to upgrade the Emacs version?
>>
>> Yes, according to the NEWS file of Emacs 27.1:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ** 'add-hook' does not always add to the front or the end any more.
>> The replacement of 'append' with 'depth' implies that the function is
>> not always added to the very front (when append/depth is nil) or the
>> very end (when append/depth is t) any more because other functions on
>> the hook may have specified higher/lower depths.  This makes it
>> possible to control the ordering of functions more precisely, as was
>> already possible in 'add-function' and 'advice-add'.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> > Ubuntu tells me I am using the
>> > most up to date version of Emacs.
>>
>> Ubuntu is lying.  The latest version is 28.1.  Probably it's not in your
>> version.  You can build Emacs yourself or use a PPA, or switch to a
>> rolling release distribution (e.g. GNU Guix, which as stable as Ubuntu
>> (if not more)), or install GNU Guix in your Ubuntu (alongside apt).
>>
>> --
>> Akib Azmain Turja
>>
>> Find me on Mastodon at @akib@hostux.social.
>>
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