Bug 152868 – /usr/lib/xemacs/site-packages nearly empty

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description August Hörandl 2006-10-26 05:02:45 UTC]

In /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp lot of packages install additional lisp files for emacs. All this extension are loaded "automagically" into emacs and every user can use them.

The corresponding directory /usr/lib/xemacs/site-packages for xemacs is nearly empty (just gnuplot install some files). A lot of the extensions for emacs work for xemacs e.g. psvn.el from subversion - but there is no easy way to use this .el files in xemacs.

[Comment 1 Hans de Graaff 2006-10-27 01:34:25 UTC]

I agree that there is a lot more that can be done here. Looking at this is on my to do list, but only after I have updated all of xemacs in portage and fixed most of the bugs. I expect it may take a few months to get to it.

It would be helpful if you could list the specific packages that you would need to be fixed in this way. 

[Comment 2 Hans de Graaff 2006-12-10 04:28:03 UTC]

I'm closing this bug because there are no specific actionable items in it. Looking at this issue is still on my todo list, but I don't think the bug should remain open for that. If there are specific packages that should get xemacs support added then please open new bugs for each package.

[Comment 3 August Hörandl 2006-12-10 06:44:18 UTC]

just for the recorsds: i have checked all packages in my emacs directory,
most of them work, just 4 fail to load; strange is subversion

list:
package name (filename)

strange fail:
dev-util/subversion-1.4.2 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/70svn-gentoo.el)
but /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/subversion/psvn.el works

fail:
app-emacs/php-mode-1.1.0 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50php-mode-gentoo.el)
sys-devel/gettext-0.15-r1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50po-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/nxml-mode-20041004 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/80nxml-mode-gentoo.el)

load ok:
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.7 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/60gtk-doc-gentoo.el)
dev-util/cscope-15.6 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50xcscope-gentoo.el)
dev-lang/erlang-11.2.1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50erlang-gentoo.el)
sci-visualization/gnuplot-4.0-r1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50gnuplot-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/haskell-mode-2.1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50haskell-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/graphviz-dot-mode-0.2 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50graphviz-dot-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/jam-mode-0.1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/70jam-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/python-mode-1.0 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/60python-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/sml-mode-4.0 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50sml-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/rst-mode-0.2.9 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50rst-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/ocaml-mode-3.08.1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50ocaml-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/vhdl-mode-3.33.8 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50vhdl-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/rnc-mode-1.0_beta3 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50rnc-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/cedet-1.0_pre3-r2 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/60cedet-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/ruby-mode-1.8.4 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50ruby-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/mmm-mode-0.4.8-r1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50mmm-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/xrdb-mode-2.31 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/70xrdb-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/tuareg-mode-1.46.0 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50tuareg-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/pymacs-0.22-r1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50pymacs-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/apache-mode-1.1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50apache-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/crontab-mode-1.18 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50crontab-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/css-mode-0.11 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50css-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/lua-mode-1.26-r1 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/70lua-mode-gentoo.el)
app-emacs/inform-mode-1.5.8 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50inform-mode-gentoo.el)
dev-python/docutils-0.4 (/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/50docutils-0.4-gentoo.el)

[Comment 4 Hans de Graaff 2006-12-10 07:14:09 UTC]

Thanks for checking these packages. I've reopened the bug so that this list can be worked on. Note that a number of these packages are available in app-xemacs/* for xemacs.

[Comment 5 Stephen J. Turnbull 2011-05-03 14:47:06 UTC]

/usr/{lib,share}/xemacs/site-packages does not correspond to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp.  It is the root of a package hierarchy, like xemacs-packages or mule-packages.  If you want to use that hierarchy for random bits of elisp, you can drop them in /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp/site-lisp/ (the "site-lisp" is arbitrary), but that's rather annoying.

Alternatively, you can enable the traditional site-lisp directory with --with-site-lisp=yes.  I believe this defaults to /usr/share/xemacs/site-lisp in current beta XEmacsen, and /usr/lib/xemacs/site-lisp for XEmacs 21.4 and older.

[Comment 6 Mats Lidell 2014-07-28 22:58:43 UTC]

For packages missing in xemacs open specific bugs reports if support is wanted for a particular package.