[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-10-09, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote:

> I think you were hit by some incompatibility between additional emacs
> packages and the emacs version. Do you have any external elisp files?
> If not, did you run emacs-updater?

The only significant external elisp I have is nxhtml (which I rarely
use).

> In fact, I got some backtraces and errors until I ran emacs-updater,
> after that, almost every package worked correctly, except for an
> external one that needs to be updated due to some changes in the way
> font-lock is done.

IIRC, I did get font-lock errors when I tried nxhtml.  But what
finally drove me back to using 23 was the inability to edit plain C
source files using the built-in c-mode.
 
> Anyway, that was probably what made me postpone the upgrade: too much
> work, fixing old packages by hand *and* figuring out which other
> settings did they change.
>
> (If you end up trying emacs-updater to fix emacs 24, you will need to
> run it again after eselecting emacs 23, if you want to go back to
> emacs 23.)

I don't remember running emacs-updater, so I probably didn't.  But
shouldn't built-in c-mode to work without running emacs-updater?

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