Re: emacs update on archlinux

[Jude DaShiell]

I don't know how this happened, but also in /usr/local/bin I found an 
emacs-24.50 directory tree and deleted it.  That was probably one of those 
archlinux updates in which the packager was nice enough to not overwrite 
/usr/bin/emacs but I didn't read any post-install notes on the changed 
situation when it happened.



-- Twitter: JudeDaShiell


On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 01:53:36PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Correct, /usr/bin/emacs --version returns emacs version 24.5-1 with
> > copyright date of 2015.  I deleted /usr/local/bin/emacs, let's see
> > if which can now find the correct binary.
>
> No need to do that: explicitly invoking /usr/bin/emacs should be
> enough.
>
> OTOH if it's not working...
>
> Be aware that this local installation of emacs possibly carries a lot
> of stuff with it, which will be now typically sitting idle somewhere
> in /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/share, and so on.
>
> If you've got plenty of disk space you can leave that alone, but if
> not...
>
> Be careful when deleting stuff :-)
>
> regards
> - -- tom?s
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