Re: symbol's value as variable is void: allow-remote-paths

Richard Cook writes: > I then go "update package index" or any other command in the Tools > menu about Packages and it complains: "symbol's value as variable > is void: allow-remote-paths" This is an XEmacs distribution bug.

You need the "efs" and "dired" packages, and "xemacs-base", to get anything done with packages. Unless you're really hurting for disk space, you should probably just download the "sumo" tarball from ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages and install it to $HOME/share/xemacs/xemacs-packages (I forget whether the tarball includes the /xemacs-packages/ prefix or not). That will give you pretty fresh packages all around, which you can then update. If you still have your MacPorts XEmacs installation, then EMACSPACKAGEPATH=/opt/local/share/xemacs $HOME/bin/xemacs& should give you a fully tricked-out XEmacs. Alternatively, ln -s /opt/local/share $HOME/share should do the trick. If you have problems with any of this, don't hesitate to ask. I'm pretty sure that's mostly right ;-) but I need to rush off to a meeting. Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta