Bug 194691 – Please update GNU Emacs support for dev-util/bzr

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-10-04 11:03:39 UTC]

The currently available Emacs support installed by bzr has some drawbacks:
- no canonical way of installation of Elisp files
- the sitefile loads bzr-mode just like that and slows down start-up of Emacs, normally bzr-mode should be loaded when needed
- bzr-mode.el is very crude and not well made
- GNU Emacs 22.2 (not yet released) will bring native bzr support, making this one obsolete

Patches to follow

[Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-10-04 11:06:26 UTC]

Created attachment 132542 [details, diff]
Patch for ebuild

- define variable SITEFILE for later use (this the way all packages with Emacs support do it)
- use functions from elisp-common.eclass  to install the Elisp files and use SITELISP variable for site-file installation
- add a file to a directory so Emacs does not automatically regard files located there
- add a note to pkg_postinst that Emacs 22.2 will bring native support and all others have to load it manually

[Comment 2 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-10-04 11:07:58 UTC]

Created attachment 132543 [details]
sitefile to to go ${FILESDIR}

This will add the directory where bzr-mode.el has been installed to the load-path (so Emacs can find it) if no built-in bzr support is found.  This is for people adding the (load "bzr-mode") line to their ~/.emacs file

[Comment 3 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-10-04 11:21:09 UTC]

Created attachment 132547 [details, diff]
patch with die statements for elisp install functions

Thanks to ulm for pointing out

[Comment 4 Ali Polatel (RETIRED) 2007-10-05 12:50:40 UTC]

bzr-0.91-r1 fixes this. Thanks for reporting :)