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From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [off-topic] emacs23 or emacs-snapshot-gtk (Ubuntu)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:52:57 +0000
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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.