William Case wrote: > Hi Ed; > > If you are an emacs user, the emacs22 has many great enhancements and > reorganizations. GNU hasn't yet declared emacs22 out of beta for some > reason, yet it is extremely stable from my experience and judging from > the support it gets on the GNU emacs mailing list. It is worth getting > even if F7 is only a month away. > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 18:57 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> William Case wrote: >> > >>>> It should be in /usr/bin >>>> >>> It has been removed and replaced with emacs-22.0.99. >> You mean you have a file in /usr/bin called "emacs-22.0.99"? >> > Yes. > >>>> You're not typing emacs22 are you? >> I do wonder where you got emacs-22.0.99. As far as I can tell 21.4-17.3.fc6 >> is the latest version. >> > Because there was a high demand for it, the emacs22 was made available > as a beta through Fedora. It is being maintained especially for FC6 and > will be included in F7. See emacs-22.repo > > [emacs-22] > name=Emacs 22 for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch > baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/coldwell/emacs/fedora/$releasever/ > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=0 > > If you want to check, there is an exchange between me and the emacs22 > maintainer wihin the last 2 - 3 weeks on this mailing list. I usually > keep all such exchanges but somehow I have inadvertently deleted it. If > you want to see it just search the April and May postings. > > The original reason I wrote this post was to inform the maintainer of > emacs22 that there was a small problem with his latest update. I see.... FWIW, I would make an alias for this instead of a link. Also, the rpm query option of --filesbypkg comes in handy to see what exactly is being installed. -- "Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me." -- J. R. R. Tolkien
