Re: [AUCTeX] Commands work but menu-bar not

[David Kastrup]

"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>>  DK == David Kastrup [2012-1-7]
>
> DK> The load path shadowing is a red herring: Debian's Emacs package
> DK> system is totally contorted and places .elc files and .el files in
> DK> different directories.
>
> The Debian AUCTeX package (as of "latest" releases, since 11.82-1 or
> so, IIRC) should behave well in this respect: .el files are placed
> also in the same directory as .elc files and the load-path should be
> such that the directory containing .elc and .el files comes before
> that the one containing .el files alone.

Either way will trigger the warnings about load-path shadowings.  One
could probably patch up Emacs in some manner so that the special case of
identical or linked .el files gets excepted, but any arrangement where a
load-path order is relevant is a likely cause for trouble.

> However, you are probably right about Debian's Emacs package system
> being contorted.

The idea of sharing a common .el directory between different versions,
even flavors of Emacs is not a good one.

-- 
David Kastrup