Re: Emacs is coming back - all pleased?

[Ken Brown <kbrown at math dot cornell dot edu>]

On 7/19/2007 10:51 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> > Emacs22 depend on xemacs-emacs-common which depend from xemacs: WHY to
> install emacs one should install XEmacs ?
>
> Previous version of Emacs depend on ctags and not from
> xemacs-emacs-common.
>
> This has another consequence (at least with -1 and -2): uninstalling
> Emacs22 corrupts the installed ctag package (as reported from cygcheck).

I felt the same way about not wanting to install xemacs just to run 
emacs, so I installed emacs 22.1 without installing xemacs-emacs-common. 
 It seemed to work until I tried compiling a tex file under auctex, 
which caused emacs to crash with a core dump.  I then uninstalled ctags 
(which was left over from my previous version of emacs), and now auctex 
seems to work fine.  Maybe some other problem will show up later as a 
result of not having ctags.  I don't know what ctags is, but if it's 
needed for emacs, I would hope that it would be possible to install it 
without also installing xemacs.

Ken