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Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:49:59 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> Incidentally, while on the issue of debian emacs startup, I have the
>> following snippet in my .emacs file for hooking my non-debian emacs
>> into the debian emacs package system:
>>
>> ;; Debian stuff
>> (unless (boundp 'debian-emacs-flavor)
>> (load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup")
>> (debian-startup 'emacs22)
>> (debian-startup 'emacs22))
>>
>> ["emacs22" because there is no emacs23 in debian yet]
It strikes me that Debian's Emacsen seem to not be plain enough.
I mean, Debian seems to change Emacs's startup.el even tho there's no
need for it. Instead of changing startup.el to (load "debian-startup")
and call some magic function in it, it'd be much better to leave Emacs's
own startup code unchanged and simply provide a site-start.el that loads
debian-startup as well as /etc/emacs/site-start.el and all the rest.
I can't see why this can't work just a well as the current setup, with
the advantage of minimizing the difference between a plain Emacs and
a Debian Emacs (and clearly documenting this difference since it's kept
in a user-visible file rather than stashed in an internal source file
only available if you install the emacs-el package).
Stefan
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/16
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Karl Fogel, 2008/07/21
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Miles Bader, 2008/07/22
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/22
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Michael Olson, 2008/07/23
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Manoj Srivastava, 2008/07/24
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/24
- Re: Debian's idiosyncratic complexification of Emacs, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
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- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/07/14
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Thomas Lord, 2008/07/15
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/15
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Thomas Lord, 2008/07/15