From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: [off-topic] emacs23 or emacs-snapshot-gtk (Ubuntu)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:52:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE5F009.2000301@manor-farm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hc4q4v$tag$2@ger.gmane.org>
Richard Riley wrote:
> Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> writes:
>
>>> I have been using the emacs-snapshot package for a long time, since the
>>> era of Ubuntu 7.04, and it worked fine and I got all the latest versions
>>> of emacs with it. Now, I just installed 9.10 from scratch, and when I
>>> search for emacs on apt-cache, I get the following relevant packages:
>>>
>>> * emacs23
>>> * emacs-snapshot-gtk
>>>
>>> The emacs-version for emacs23 returns:
>>>
>>> "GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2) of
>>> 2009-10-15 on yellow, modified by Debian"
>>>
>>> For emacs-snapshot-gtk, I get:
>>>
>>> "GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0) of
>>> 2009-09-27 on crested, modified by Debian"
>>>
>>> Which one would be the most recent version (or better package to use)?
>>>
>> I had some problems using emacs23 in Karmic. Several errors loading my
>> .emacs and a non functional emacs-lisp menu. Using the ppa from
>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa everything works as
>> expected using the same .emacs.
>>
>> Ian.
>>
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>
> This fixes the missing menus for me:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # edit
> export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
> emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c $@
>
Thanks. There seem to be a couple of bug reports with
similar problems to mine for Karmic. I'll give your fix
a try.
So it looks as though it's a GTK not an Emacs bug.
Best wishes,
Ian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 18:02 [off-topic] emacs23 or emacs-snapshot-gtk (Ubuntu) Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-26 18:19 ` Ian Barton
2009-10-26 18:25 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2009-10-26 18:47 ` Ian Barton
2009-10-26 18:35 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-26 18:52 ` Ian Barton [this message]
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