emacs 22 in backports ?

[shomati_sen]

Hi,

I'd like to request the newly released Emacs 22 as part of Feisty backports.

Thanks,

Shomati

[mopi]

I'll second that.

[nigeldgreen]

I'll third that. I've tried to install from sources but it seems to trip over a termcap entry. I've also tried apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk, which launches and appears to run fine but trips over some entries in my .emacs and doesn't play nicely with planner-mode.

Any tips on getting the snapshot working would be very gratefully received...

Nigel

[posco]

I'll add my voice to the call for Emacs 22 as well!

[posco]

nigeldgreen: I didn't have any problem compiling emacs-22.1 from source. I just installed a bunch of the *-dev packages related to the libraries emacs was trying to find when doing ./configure (libgtk2.0-dev, libpng12-dev, etc..) and ran ./configure --with-gtk && make and everything seemed to work. No termcap problems.

[vambo]

I'll add my voice to the call for Emacs 22 as well!

And me ... yet again. Inquired about this ages ago, not a whimper

[daveluciffer]

You can install the newest version by
(1) extract package
(2) ./configure
(3) check if there are any header or dev repositories missing for building, especially support for X
(4) sudo make
(5) sudo make install
(6) install the newest version of cedet, ecb
(7) make changes in your .emacs file


for no termcap problem, search "termcap" in the app manager, and then install the dev repo that are supported by ubuntu, then
make distclean
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

You should be fine after that.