Re: Configuration problem

["G. Milde" <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On  4.11.08, Tom Culliton wrote:
> I just got burned by this on a new Ubuntu box today.  

Can you be a bit more specific? You have a new Ubuntu box and created both,
~/.jedrc and ~/.jed ? I thought this was a rather uncommon setup.

> Really kind of an obnoxious change for the debian folks to make without
> updating the documentation to match.  

Did you find the documentation in /usr/share/doc/jed/?

NEWS.Debian.gz          % I admit that this is silent on this point :-(
README.Debian-startup   % explains the Debian-specific startup scheme
README.Debian.gz	% Contains an appropriate warning
changelog.Debian.gz	% lists the change as well

> 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.

Agreed. But IMO the Debian README files are the right place for this
kind of info.

> OBTW - If the debian package maintainer is around, installing jed-extras 
> breaks the info reader. 

Not here.

> 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"

Actually, this is a misleading error message, as only the last
directory in the search path is given.

  > locate pcre.sl
  /usr/share/slsh/pcre.sl

You need to install the recommended package slsh.
(jed-extra will not be completely broken without it, but missing some
functionality, that is why we do not depend on it but recommend.)

Günter

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