I had tried that too but had the same problem.
Here is what was happening. The new version of emacs that I installed already included
a version of speedbar which of course is not compatiable with the JDE environment.
Remember the first one found is used. I needed the new one. At first, I used
add-to-list but that will only add (actually prepends, why didn't they just name it
prepend-to-list) the designated path to load-path but only if it does not find one of
that name. Still, did not work because one did exist already so my new was ignored.
What you have to do is something like the following (thanks to Eric for the clue) at
the top of your .emacs or _emacs (windoze variation).
(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/elisp/speedbar-0.11") load-path))
Of course change the path spec to wherever you have the new version of speedbar.
John Syre
(recovering syntax overtaxed C++ programming)
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> From: Ben Coughenour[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Ben Coughenour
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 9:39 AM
> To: EXT-Syre, John
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: speedbar error - what did I miss?
>
> I had this problem as well. I upgraded my speedbar to version 0.11 and it went away.
>
> Ben
>
>
> "EXT-Syre, John" wrote:
>
> > I just downloaded the newest versions of ntemacs 20.6.1 (host system is win95, it
>would be stretching it to call it an OS), jde 2.1.6beta24 , speedbar 0.10, and
>semantic-1.1. I'm using my _emacs file I had used for older versions of the above,
>which worked great, and just made changes to reference the new stuff. This is a
>different machine and everything is a 'fresh' install.
> >
> > When I try to start emacs I get an error
> > Error in init file: Symbol's value as variable is void:
>speedbar-dynamic-tags-function-list
> >
> > Anyone else encountered this? Is there an initialization/configuration step that I
>missed. I looked in dejanews and the archives but did not readily see anything that
>was relevant and if there was I missed that too. So, before I start dusting off the
>stagnated elisp skills I was hoping someone might have an easy solution.
> >
> > J. Syre
> > Thanks !
>
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