At 07:25 PM 11/9/00 +0100, you wrote: >On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Paul Kinnucan wrote: > >>At 04:26 PM 11/9/00 +0100, you wrote: >>>On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Paul Kinnucan wrote: >>> >>>>At 07:45 AM 11/9/00 +0100, you wrote: >>>>[snip' >>>> >>>>> Here it is: >>>>> >>>>>Signaling: (void-variable mark-active) >>>>> tempo-insert-template(tempo-template-jde-javadoc-describe-class nil) >>>> >>>>The error is occuring in tempo, which is a standard Emacs/XEmacs package >>>>that the JDE uses. You must have an Emacs version of tempo.el in your >>>>XEmacs load-path. >>> >>> I took tempo.elc from the emacs-20.7 package and placed it >>> instead of the original xemacs-21.1.12 provided one and >>> nothing happened. I thought that way I'm sure that XEmacs is >>> reading the right file. >>> >> >>Why would you do this? Why would you try to run an Emacs file, especially a >>COMPILED Emacs file, in XEmacs? This makes no sense to me. > > Because I am >- new and unexperienced in (x)emacs and don't understand what's the > difference between the various versions of emacs editors and why the > hell we have 3-4 different flavours of basically the same thing Because over time various groups of people have thought for one reason or another that they could write a better Emacs. >- looking for a good java environment >- trying to use JDE in its full extent >- wondering how JDE won't work in xemacs It won't work in your case because you have not property configured XEmacs. >- not believing that JDE just won't work in xemacs, since xemacs is > pretty spread editor and JDE is a pretty good set of useful > functions and common sense tells me it should work in xemacs. > > Do you have any confirmations of running JDE 2.2.5.2 within > XEmacs 21.1.12? Yes. However, please be aware that I develop primarily for Emacs. I rely on JDE users to detect and provide solutions for XEmacs incompatibilities. So if you are new to (X)Emacs and are primarily interested in doing Java development as opposed to XEmacs development, you are better off using Emacs. - Paul
