Re: g-client: character coding problem

[Hadron]

Joseph Fahey <fahey@fabula.org> writes:

>>>>>> "h" == Hadron  <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>     h> Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>     >> Joseph Fahey <fahey@fabula.org> writes:
>     >> 
>     >>> I am trying to use T. V. Ramah's g-client interface to the
>     >>> Google API, in particular as an interface to Blogger.
>     >>> 
>     >>> 
> http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2007/03/emacs-client-for-google-services.html#cooliris
>     >> 
>     >> With emacs 23 I get this error
>     >> 
>     >> ,---- | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open
>     >> load file" "g-cus-load") | load("g-cus-load") |
>     >> load-library("g-cus-load") |
>     >> byte-code("ÀÁÂÃÄÅ%.ÆÇ!.ÆÈ!.ÉÊË\".ÌÁ!."
>     >> [custom-declare-group g nil "Google Client" :group applications
>     >> load-library "g-loaddefs" "g-cus-load" add-hook
>     >> calendar-mode-hook gcal-emacs-calendar-setup provide] 6) |
>     >> load("g") | load-library("g") | eval((load-library "g")) |
>     >> eval-last-sexp-1(nil) | eval-last-sexp(nil) |
>     >> call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) `----
>     >> 
>     >> Any ideas?
>
>     h> ok, just commenting out the line in g.el which loads g-cus-load
>     h> gets it working, but what lisp would load the file only if it
>     h> exists?
>
> That problem has been fixed in the most recent svn version. When I
> first installed g-client, the fix was to add your own g-cus-load.el
> file that would be empty except for "(provide 'g-cus-load)".
>
> Joe

Why would anyone leave the main release with an error in it that
literally stops emacs loading properly? Strange.