Re: emacs is hopeless

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sun Nov12'23 04:12:07PM, George Avrunin wrote:
> From: George Avrunin 
> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:12:07 -0500
> To: [e-mail]
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Subject: Re: emacs is hopeless
>
> On 11/12/23 13:19, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> > Thank you for this: downgrading emacs for me to 28.3 (F38) gets rid of
> > the problem that I was having, and that is, that emacs 29.1 can not load
> > a file for me (without emacs -Q).
> >
> > With emacs -Q in 29.1 (F39), I can load the file all right, but I do not
> > have the correct fonts, and I can not seem to load those.
> >
> > I wonder why emacs users have not reported my issue with 29.1 on the emacs
> > mailing list.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Ranjan
>
> As a data point, Emacs 29.1 (from emacs-29.1-2.fc39.x86_64) in Fedora 39
> is working fine for me.  I had to upgrade a couple of the elisp packages
> I use and it seems that the very old auto-insert-tkld package that I've
> used for a long time doesn't work anymore, though I did get some
> semi-informative error messages.  (For the moment, I've just taken the
> auto-insert-tkld stuff out of my .emacs; maybe I'll try to figure that
> out later when I have more time, or set up one of the alternatives.)
> "emacs -q" worked without problems from the beginning.
>
> Since I'm using Wayland, I had to install wl-clipboard and add some code
> in .emacs to get paste with the middle mouse button into emacs to work
> (per the Emacs Wiki: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste).  But
> everything else I've tried seems to work fine, including AUCTeX, both
> with opening new files and editing existing ones.
>
> I'm using KDE with an NVidia card and the driver from rpmfusion on my
> desktop and KDE with Intel video on a Dell laptop, also in Fedora 39.
> Emacs is ok on both machines.  I haven't tried it in X.

I see, I use the X11 window system (no desktop environment, but openbox window manager).

Thanks for your input!

Best wishes,
Ranjan
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