Re: Load path and custom compiling cvs on Debian

[Tim X]

Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>
>> Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> John Wells wrote:
>>>> Guys,
>>>>
>>>> I've learned that anti-aliased fonts don't appear to be supported yet
>>>> on 22, and I've also found that compiling the unicode branch out of
>>>> CVS enables this support.
>>>>
>>>> I've done the compile and it works great...fonts look wonderful.
>>>> However, the problem is the custom compiled emacs doesn't find all my
>>>> pre-installed Debian packaged modes and utilities, like ecb,
>>>> ruby-mode, etc.
>>>>
>>>> It appears that the dpkg's put the various installed files in:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
>>>> /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp
>>>>
>>>> Then, when I start emacs, these are already there, loaded.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me what configurations settings I need to do to make
>>>> these work with my custom compile? Is it a ./configure option? Is it
>>>> some central emacs config file? Can I inspect where my custom compile
>>>> is looking for modes easily through emacs itself?
>>>
>>> `C-h v load-path RET' will show you the directories that Emacs searches
>>> for files to load.  Try `C-h r' to browse the Emacs manual, then `i load
>>> RET' to find out the details about how that works.
>>>
>>> Here's what you should put in your .emacs file to allow the packages
>>> from Debian to be found:
>>>
>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp" t)
>>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp" t)
>>>
>>>> Sorry for so many questions...I'm learning quickly, but there's a lot to 
>>>> learn!
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> -- 
>>
>> You also need to modify startup.el so that it loads the config stuff in
>> /etc/emacs/site-start.d and /etc/emacs22/site-start.d, otherwise, emacs
>> will find the packages, but not the necessary stuff done to config/ and set
>> them up.
>>
>> Tim
>
> Do the snapshot repositories here include the aa?
>
> http://emacs.orebokech.com/
>
>
> My emacs fonts certainly look good but maybe I'm just too used to it
> without aa?!? It's marked as "emacs 23" anyway and according to here
> http://g33k.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/gnu-emacs-with-xft-goodness/
> the unicode branch was to become emacs 23.
>

I haven't used romain's packages since the official debian emacs22 was
released (see other post). However, I seem to remember seeing someone state
that they do. 

Tim

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