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Re: best gnu/linux distro for emacs
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: best gnu/linux distro for emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:38:13 +0000 (UTC) |
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Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> For now, what is the "best" distribution of GNU/Linux for running emacs?
> ...
>> Debian is known for relatively strict adherence to the philosophies of
>> free software. But in Debian, Emacs documentation is in package
>> `emacs24-common-non-dfsg`, since the Debian community and the FSF have
>> some disagreement. There are many packages about Emacs in Debian, like
>> `emacs-goodies-el', `emacs-snapshot' and `debian-el'. And there are
>> also many Debian related Emacs libraries, like devscripts-el[3],
>> apt-mode[4], apt-sources[5] and so on.
> I recall there were some complaints that Debian had some odd Emacs
> setup; I don't recall the details, but I seem to recall David Kastrup
> pointing them out. Does anybody remember?
They put a dummy site-start.el under /etc somewhere. This can catch you
out if you have your real site-start.el in a normal Emacs place such as
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el since the dummy one gets
loaded instead of the real one.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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