I am a fan of GNU Emacs, the second most popular programmers’ editor (after vi) and was till now using the old Emacs 21 version which doesn’t have great font. But now Emacs has a XFont backend which makes possible to use good looking fonts, like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. I wanted to install this on my Ubuntu Fiesty and managed to do it with the emacs-snapshot packages by Alexandre Vassalotti.
Here is how you too can install Emacs Snapshot on your Ubuntu.
- First add the following lines to your /etc/sources.list file
deb http://debs.peadrop.com feisty backports deb-src http://debs.peadrop.com feisty backports - Then add the GPG key to the key database.
wget --quiet http://debs.peadrop.com/DD385D79.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add - - Then update and install the following packages. These are only for the 32bit version of Ubuntu.
sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install emacs-snapshot-gtk emacs-snapshot-el - Then you have to specify which font you want to use in the Xresources file.
echo "Emacs.font: Monospace-10" >> ~/.Xresources xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
This will do the magic and now you can enjoy the cool looking emacs. And also thank Alexandre Vassalotti for the nice packages.
When trying to run the “info” command in emac, I get an error. After searching the net, it seems I’ve got an old CEDET implementation or something. Are you encountering the same problems as me with this?
I’ve used your version of Emacs for a couple of months, but today I upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) beta, and it gave me the crappy old Emacs back.
How can I get it to use your version under Gibbon?