Hi, XEmacs-21.0 is really nice! I had some problems with the
installation of packages. I must say: if I wouldn't have ticked the
thread "Packages-Info ..." by Holger Schauer and Andy Piper, I would
have been completely lost...
(1) It should be mentioned in the INSTALL file which
a. packages are necessary before dumping (some Mule stuff?)
b. packages are necessary for using the "update packages"
mechanism from the menubar (efs + xemacs-base?)
(2) After having installed packages efs + xemacs-base, using
Options -> Customize -> Update Packages
installs dired, mail-lib and vm!??? Why is that?
(3) Using
Options -> Customize -> Emacs -> Packages
and toggling the various settings is a bit slow. It would be
excellent to have something like toggle all / set all.
(4) If you do not want that all people update their package from the
xemacs ftp site, i.e., not using mirrors, you should advice to add
addresses to `package-get-remote'.
(5) I don't know whether this *Finder* stuff (C-h p) is still useful.
At least it is very confusing to call the corresponding menu entry
"Packages" (in Help -> Basics).
(6) My menu item
Help -> Samples -> Samples enriched
is not selectable for the following reason (enriched.el and
enriched.doc) are present:
`data-directory-list' has value
("/home/clstaff/wedler/xemacs/xemacs-21.0-b51/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/"
"/home/clstaff/wedler/xemacs/xemacs-21.0-b51/etc/") i.e., not
containing the etc dir for enriched.doc, and `locate-data-file',
which is used in the menu entry, only uses those dirs.
- Christoph
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