Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir -- SOLVED?
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:46:59PM +, Graham Murray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two things wrong with that. First, I have eselect'ed emacs-23, yet I still see what I believe to be emacs-21 info (I have been looking at the macro help in particular; maybe there is a better way of finding the info version). Second, eselect only shows the emacs-22 and emacs-23 options, which presumably correspond to the two subdirs of the same name, but I still have the three year old .gz info files which are probably the emacs-21 files, and which is what info finds. I know that this is not much help to you, but it works for me. I am currently running emacs-23. If, in a normal user bash session I type 'info emacs' it tells me it is for version 23.0.50. I then changed to emacs-22 using eslect in a root session. Back in the original user session I then typed 'source /etc/profile' (to pick up the changes made by eslect) then ran 'info emacs' and it indicated it was for version 22.1. This is, I believe, the expected behaviour. I had not thought that env vars were at work, so that might have been a problem if I ever got that far, but I was always getting emacs-21 info regardless. So I moved all the old emacs-21 info files into a subdir where they can't be found by mistake, rebooted for other reasons, and now get emacs-23 info. I think those old stale files were the visible problem hiding what would have been a new problem. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:22:15AM +, Graham Murray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the info system, and what do I do to correct this? 'eselect emacs' allows you to select which version of emacs to use, and as part of that sets the correct info directory for the selected version. Two things wrong with that. First, I have eselect'ed emacs-23, yet I still see what I believe to be emacs-21 info (I have been looking at the macro help in particular; maybe there is a better way of finding the info version). Second, eselect only shows the emacs-22 and emacs-23 options, which presumably correspond to the two subdirs of the same name, but I still have the three year old .gz info files which are probably the emacs-21 files, and which is what info finds. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two things wrong with that. First, I have eselect'ed emacs-23, yet I still see what I believe to be emacs-21 info (I have been looking at the macro help in particular; maybe there is a better way of finding the info version). Second, eselect only shows the emacs-22 and emacs-23 options, which presumably correspond to the two subdirs of the same name, but I still have the three year old .gz info files which are probably the emacs-21 files, and which is what info finds. I know that this is not much help to you, but it works for me. I am currently running emacs-23. If, in a normal user bash session I type 'info emacs' it tells me it is for version 23.0.50. I then changed to emacs-22 using eslect in a root session. Back in the original user session I then typed 'source /etc/profile' (to pick up the changes made by eslect) then ran 'info emacs' and it indicated it was for version 22.1. This is, I believe, the expected behaviour. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the info system, and what do I do to correct this? 'eselect emacs' allows you to select which version of emacs to use, and as part of that sets the correct info directory for the selected version. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
