[Aquamacs-devel] Problem with/question about Aquamacs 2.0

[Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill]

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply!

José> start using it, but it gives me an error upon start-up saying that it
José> does not recognise the utf-8m coding system of Preferences.el.  The
José> funny thing is that I byte-compile Preferences.el from dired in
José> Aquamacs 2.0 and then try to load the byte-compiled Preferences.elc
José> and I get the very same error.

David> Taking a look at your Prefs.el might allow others or me to make
David> a more educated guess what's happening.  It's a bug for sure.

At the potentially embarrassing prospect of sharing my Preferences
file, which is an example of lack of design [I have code in there
which I no longer remember why I wrote it], I decided to clean things
up a bit and I discovered the offending line to be a

(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8m)

Apparently this is not a coding system in Emacs 23.  If I remove that
line then I get no error and the Preferences.el are read by Aquamacs
2.

David> It's not clear to me that there is a strong use-case for
David> separate configurations and libraries.

I think you're right.  I read the Emacs 23 NEWS file and it claims
that files byte-compiled with Emacs 22 should be OK in Emacs 23;
although backwards compatibility is not guaranteed.  Hence I will not
recompile the files until I am happy that I will not be going back to
Aquamacs 1.8.

I still don't see when this will happen, though, because of a number
of problems I'm experiencing with Aquamacs 2.0 which I will be
investigating and making a report about in due course.

David> Is this a sabbatical, or have you left Edinburgh for good?

This is an 8-month sabbatical until the new year :)

Anyway, thanks.  I can now start testing Aquamacs 2.

Cheers, José

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