elpa install failed
I tried installing elpa on wheezy emacs and the install failed. It appears the control-j key when pressed after the piece of code is put into the scratch buffer and the cursor is positioned just after the last right parenthesis does nothing. Was this some kind of security fix put into the debian flavor of emacs? According to standard emacs documentation control-j at the end of a code block is supposed to evaluate the code and take action as instructed by that code. I got the code I used off the elpa home page site and used a cut and paste operation to save it to a file first. cut here. (let ((buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously http://tromey.com/elpa/package-install.el;))) (save-excursion (set-buffer buffer) (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward ^$ nil 'move) (eval-region (point) (point-max)) (kill-buffer (current-buffer cut here. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Remember Microsoft didn't write Tiger 10.4 or any of its successors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1303020903210.20...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
emacs elpa install failed
It turns out I wasn't in the scratch buffer when I tried the eval. I thought I was in that buffer after trying to enter it in the wrong way but that wasn't the case. Also I found el-get package and since that supports more than elpa, I installed that package and made evaluate run on it successfully. I should have had coffee before trying to do something new with emacs. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Remember Microsoft didn't write Tiger 10.4 or any of its successors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1303021029300.23...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
