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Re: linux 8.3.29: emacs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sun Mar 19 14:51:44 2000

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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:41:35 EST."
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:51:38 -0500
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>


> > 	emacs can't load discuss.el because /usr/athena/share/emacs/site-lisp
> > 	is not in load-path
> 
> I don't have any problem using emacs discuss if I run emacs -q.  Are
> you sure you're using /usr/athena/bin/emacs and not /usr/bin/emacs?

I think that was the problem; I'm not on a linux box now but examining
my dotfiles it looks like /usr/bin would precede /usr/athena/bin in my
path on linux.

Maybe /usr/bin/emacs should be removed, like the other software that
duplicates or conflicts with athena software.

    --John Carr (jfc@mit.edu)

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