Re: Getting rid of hyperbole (was: compiling the beta on an iMac)

A belated reply/resolution on this question: It seems to be out of my environment now. I don't want to denigrate the package. When Bob Weiner was developing it, we were both working for Motorola, and I used to communicate with him a lot about it, and tested some things in it for him, thinking I might have wanted to use his fancified version in in the work my department was doing. And in fact I used to try and use it quite a bit, though not exhaustively. Eventually I found it a bit intrusive and decided to just stop using it entirely. But by then it had its hooks deeply embedded into a lot of what I do. I tried three or four times without success to extract it (as it were). Which brings me to now ... I'd try to execute stuff -- and I won't try to remember exactly what functions triggered it -- but would get errors saying things like hkey-either and hkey-help-show were not defined. I kept building messy workarounds. The last few days I've done a more thorough revamping of my whole XEmacs startup and configuration files than I've done in maybe ten years, and in the process seem to have finally managed to get rid of the side effects. That's exactly what I thought, but my inability to stomp it out had led me to wonder if maybe something had gotten built into the binary that I didn't know about. I also discovered that I had a whole version of hyperbole in my ~/.xemacs/site-packages/lisp, and that the individual files in it are way different than from what came over in the packages sumo. I've summarily dumped that version out of my home tree, knowing should I ever want for any reason to mess with hyperbole again, it's available. So I consider that problem resolved now, too. Only a few more nits to deal with before I climb back into my hole and am mostly silent again for a few more years. -- Lynn David Newton Columbus, Ohio neologisticsediting.com lynndavidnewton.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta