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Re: Emacs on Jaguar: msg#00370

Subject: Re: Emacs on Jaguar
On 9/26/02 2:06 PM, "Martin Costabel" <costabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> 
> This seems to be the main complaint of dpkg. Maybe you can appease her
> by doing
> 
>  touch /sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors
> 
> Then the force-removal might work.


I did a fresh install of fink and now emacs works!


> 
> I have a vague recollection of going through a similar nightmare and
> then deciding that I wouldn't touch GNU emacs from fink any more. I am
> a happy user of xemacs who does not participate in this complicated
> emacsen-common business.

I'm also a happy Xemacs user - but I don't always have X running and when I
want to do a quick edit of some script, emacs run from a terminal fits the
bill. Beats vi ;-)



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