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Title: Emacs: Update from 19.xx to 20.2

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Emacs: Update from 19.xx to 20.2

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 5.3

Symptom:

After an update Emacs doesn't behave as usual.

Cause:

This update represents a so called "Major Number Update". When such an update occurs, it is very likely, that very fundamental parts of a program where changed (User interface, configuration files, etc.) . In the concrete case as a main modification MULE (MULti lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs ") was added; an extension that caused a lot of discussions.

Solution:

Make sure, that your Emacs start-files are compatible with the new Emacs. The easiest way to achieve a correct start-up of emacs is to copy the files .emacs and .gnu-emacs from /etc/skel to your home directory (don't forget the blanks !) :

        cp /etc/skel/.emacs ~/.emacs
        cp /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs ~/.gnu-emacs

If you've created a new user with YaST, these files will be copied automatically from /etc/skel .

If you've made adaptations to .gnu-emacs, you should of course make a backup of that file first !

Usually the following settings must be present in the ~/.gnu-emacs:

(standard-display-european 1)
(set-input-mode (car   (current-input-mode))
                (nth 1 (current-input-mode))
                  0
                (nth 3 (current-input-mode)))

For some packages the following is recommended in addition :

(setup-latin1-environment)
(setq enable-multibyte-characters nil)

Remark :

If you cannot set up your usual environment, you should either install the "old" Emacs 19.34 from CD1 (directory /unsorted/emacs-19/) or consider an update to Emacs 20.3 (or newer).

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Keywords: 5.3, UPDATE, EMACS, GNUEMACS

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Categories: Applications

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