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Re: missing /usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs in Redhat-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Sep 9 15:05:13 1996
To: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Sep 1996 22:22:30 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 15:02:52 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
/usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs is an emacs18-ism. Linux-Athena doesn't
support Emacs 18.
The proper location to place emacs lisp files are:
/usr/athena/share/emacs
Most likely you will want to use the site-lisp subdirectory thereof.
-derek
> Hello, I was trying to do some 6.034 stuff the other day, and installed
> the Scheme-to-C emacs extensions as per the class handouts. It didn't
> work at first though, and then I realized that /usr/athena/lib/gnuemacs
> didn't exist on my system. I ended up copying that directory tree off
> ringworld, and everything works fine now, but I think that perhaps that
> dir tree ought to be in the default distribution of the Athena RPMS.
> Am I correct?
