Re: emacs21 font rendering

2007-05-21 Thread flebber
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:17 +1000, flebber wrote: > Hi > > This is my first post to the list so if i have done anything untoward > please let me know. > > I am on debian etch using gnome I have been trying to get emacs or > emacs21 as it seems to be called to work properly. > > It is not render

Re: emacs21 held hostage to installing other packages

2007-03-14 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-14, Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently installed the testing (etch) incarnation of debian, > and have added emacs (emacs21). I would like to add gnumeric > and a number of other packages, but aptitude warns me that, to > do so, I have to downgrade some things (libc

On emacs-snapshot-gtk (was: Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken)

2006-05-11 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, I am sorry for jumping in this thread a bit late. I hope that this is still relevant. On May 08 2006, Carl D. Blake wrote: > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for the last few days > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common package is > broken. If you are an Emacs u

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-10 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 02:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 17:49:57 -0700, kruton wrote: > > > OK, I'll ask a stupid question. How do you setup > > > the sources.list file > > > so you can use unstable, but install emacs from > > > testing at the same > > > time? > > > > i don't

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 17:49:57 -0700, kruton wrote: > > OK, I'll ask a stupid question. How do you setup > > the sources.list file > > so you can use unstable, but install emacs from > > testing at the same > > time? > > i don't think even testing is working... both testing > and unstable have

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > The OP didn't say he wanted/needed GNU Emacs, he said he was trying to > install emacs21. I would have thought the latter implied the former. > He can get essentially the sa

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > The OP didn't say he wanted/needed GNU Emacs, he said he was trying to > install emacs21. I would have thought the latter implied the former. > He can get essentially the same functionality with xemacs21 while > waiting for emacs2

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:41:35PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside > emacs21, and has no dependencies on emacs21 (that I can see). ..., and is also not GNU Emacs. And vim is n

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread kruton
> OK, I'll ask a stupid question. How do you setup > the sources.list file > so you can use unstable, but install emacs from > testing at the same > time? i don't think even testing is working... both testing and unstable have the same version number.. so wait till the bug is fixed. (or use xemac

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:41:35PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside > emacs21, and has no dependencies on emacs21 (that I can see). ..., and is also not GNU Emacs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/9/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you need emacs you can install the version from testing and forbid further upgrades of these packages until this dependency issue is fixed. You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside emacs21, and has no dependencies on

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 02:17, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 15:32:38 -0700, kruton wrote: > > --- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > > > the last few days > > > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-co

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 15:32:38 -0700, kruton wrote: > --- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > > the last few days > > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common > > package is broken. > > I keep waiting thinking that t

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-08 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/8/06, Carl D. Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for the last few days and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common package is broken. I keep waiting thinking that the problem will be resolved, but nothing has been done about it. aptitud

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-08 Thread H.S.
kruton wrote: > couple of days back, when I was upgrading to v7.0.16 > of xorg, these emacs packages were "removed". i am > hoping that the dependency issues are fixed before i > need to use emacs again.. > --kruton > I had noticed that xfs-xtt has some dependency issues with xorg v7.0.16. I ev

Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken

2006-05-08 Thread kruton
--- "Carl D. Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for > the last few days > and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common > package is broken. > I keep waiting thinking that the problem will be > resolved, but nothing > has been done about it.

Re: Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:40:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. > Error info > > Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... > emacs-install emacs21 > install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... emacs-install: > /usr/li

Re: Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:13:37PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex > package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons (they make me think of > Word...). > Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text

Re: Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-20 Thread Keith O'Connell
Joerg > I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex > package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons > Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text-mode I think what you are looking for is (tool-bar-mode 0) -- ___

Re: Emacs21: nameserver resolution fails

2002-10-19 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Shyamal Prasad writes: > Does Emacs 21 do this consistently? Or do you get this error only the > first time? Consistently. > > I'd suggest searching the bug reports to see if it has not been > reported. If that is the case, and you can reproduced this problem > consistenly, it is always w

Re: Emacs21: nameserver resolution fails

2002-10-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"markus" == markus hoenicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: markus> If I run vm as a mail client in Emacs 20, I have no markus> problem accessing my pop3 and smtp servers. If I try the markus> same in Emacs 21, I get a message: markus> Temporary nameserver resolution problem

Re: emacs21 on potato..

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
add dependency on dpkg (>= 1.9.0) for new install-info. > > But trying to install I get dependency errors. Emacs21 depends on dpkg >>=1.9.0 and potato comes with 1.6.15. I guess nothing in emacs21 > really depends on dpkg except for maybe the install/remove scripts? > Then I thought, okay I'll po

Re: emacs21

2002-03-04 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If you can't get an answer there, then the >> only answer is "42" > >Oh, thanks, I didn't know about that list. But your reference to "42" >sailed right over my head... "42" is the answer; the

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 08:31:55PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Harry, try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen all > > kinds of discussions on just this type of question. Some serious emacs > > dev types hang out there. If you can't get an answer t

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Harry, try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen all > kinds of discussions on just this type of question. Some serious emacs > dev types hang out there. If you can't get an answer there, then the > only answer is "42" Oh, thanks, I didn't know about t

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 08:29:04 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: >A fairly long-time emacs user, I'm accustomed to using a site-start.el > >Probably good reasons for all this, I'm just curious what they are? Hi Harry, try here [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen all kinds of discussions on just this type of

Re: emacs21

2002-03-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 03-Mar-2002 Harry Putnam wrote: > A fairly long-time emacs user, I'm accustomed to using a site-start.el > file as a place to do general things. In my single user system it can be > quite a lot since no one else is stuck with it. > > Having installed the emac21 package, it seems my site-start.

Re: Emacs21 in Woody...

2001-11-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:43:20PM +0100, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Does anybody know when emacs21 will hit Woody? As there's just been a low priority upload, a minimum of 10 days, provided that the maintainer doesn't upload another version between now and then. Even in 10 days it's not guarantee

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-25 Thread joel_mayes
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:01:00PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Built it last night, the install uses texinfo 4.0b which you can build > > from the unstable sources, it also depends on dpkg 1.9.17 from unstable > > which you can just build from the unstable sources again, the install >

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-25 Thread Glyn Millington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> Has anyone got Emacs21 up and running on stable? > Built it last night, the install uses texinfo 4.0b which you can build > from the unstable sources, it also depends on dpkg 1.9.17 from unstable > which you can just build from the unstable sources again, the in

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> Built it last night, the install uses texinfo 4.0b which you can build > from the unstable sources, it also depends on dpkg 1.9.17 from unstable > which you can just build from the unstable sources again, the install > for dpkg 1.9.17 will also need debiandoc-sgml (version from stable OK) > in

Re: Emacs21 on Stable - any joy.

2001-10-24 Thread joel_mayes
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:14:58AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Before I do the big download. (well, on this modem it's big > enough). > > Has anyone got Emacs21 up and running on stable? I was considering > building with the source from unstable, but could just as easily get the >

Re: Emacs21 ? Anybody tried it?

2001-04-01 Thread Glyn Millington
On 01 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was delighted to find an unofficial set of debs for Emacs21, having > drooled over screenshots for a while ! Alas the debs require something > more than my almost virgin potato set up. Newer versions of libc6 etc. > > I'm quite prepared to download