Re: Configuration problem

["Tom Culliton" <culliton@xxxxxx>]

I just got burned by this on a new Ubuntu box today.  Really kind of an
obnoxious change for the debian folks to make without updating the
documentation to match.  It really shouldn't require 45+ minutes of
sleuthing through site.sl  and such to figure out that there was an
overriding defaults.sl that was loading files from /etc/jed.d/ that was
preventing my ~/.jedrc from loading because I had a ~/.jed directory.

OBTW - If the debian package maintainer is around, installing jed-extras 
breaks the info reader.  Looks like the drop-in replacement for info.sl
isn't really, it barks (and righteously so): "Unable to load
/usr/share/jed/jed-extra/pcre.slc"

> Hallo Michele,
>
> Michele Dondi <blazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>>> Michele Dondi <blazar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> then it starts loading .slc files. At a certain point
>>>> I'm left with "loading /usr/share/jed/lib/modeinfo.slc" - However I'm
>>>> in Emacs mode with the default colors, which means that my ~/.jedrc is
>>>> NEVER read.
>>>
>>> Do you have a directory ~/.jed? From
>>> /usr/share/doc/jed/README.Debian-startup:
>>>
>>>   * ~/.jed/jed.rc                  % user config file (if it exists),
>>>                                    % skipped with the -n command line
>>> option)
>>>     or ~/.jedrc                    % if ~/.jed/ doesnot exist
>>
>> I have BOTH:
>>
>> icard:~ [22:30:58]$ ls -rl .jed*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users 10155 Jan 11  2005 .jedrc~
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users 10245 Oct 27 11:57 .jedrc
>>
>> .jed:
>> total 788
>> -rw------- 1 blazar users 786534 Oct 28 22:29 recent_db
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 blazar users   4096 Dec  5  2002 lib
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 blazar users   5112 Mar  8  2002 home-lib.sl
>
> So you must move your .jedrc to ~/.jed/jed.rc. The Filesystem Hierarchy
> Standard recommends to place only one entry in the home directory.
>
> ,----[ /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs-2.3.txt.gz ]
> |User specific configuration files for applications are stored in the
> user's
> |home directory in a file that starts with the '.' character (a "dot
> file"). If
> |an application needs to create more than one dot file then they should be
> |placed in a subdirectory with a name starting with a '.' character, (a
> "dot
> |directory"). In this case the configuration files should not start with
> the '.'
> |character. [11]
> `----
>
> So Debian uses ~/.jed/jed.rc if the directory ~/.jed exists and doesn't
> look for ~/.jedrc in this case. For backward compatibility the fallback
> to ~/.jedrc is provided, but I don't would swear that it stays.
>
> Bye, Jörg.
> --
> â??â?¦anytime you install something new on the Windows platform, you risk
> spending the next five or six hours trying to figure out what happenedâ??
>             (Robert Roblin, Adobe)
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