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Re: Did October "Patch Tuesday" break something?


On 10/13/2013 7:18 PM, Stan Moore wrote:
<snip>

I also installed the October windows patches (Win 7) and my emacs changed
but in a different way. Everything works normally except when I try to
read
an info file.
Apparently emacs thinks I suddenly speak French. Outside emacs info works
perfectly. I haven't had any time to investigate and I can't really see
how they
could possibly be related to the patches. It does seem odd that the change
happened at the same time as the patches.  Maybe Lisp and AI actually work
and lisp has become sentient and is starting early for Halloween.

To close the loop for the record, my situation had nothing to do with the
windows patches.
For reasons I haven't tracked down yet the emacs package system seems to
have had a bad day.
Emacs has a package system and some repositories for many of the modes and
extensions available.
After M-x list-packages you select packages of interest for installation or
update and life is good. It
seems one of the packages is damaged in the repo or it became corrupted
during/after update. Oddly,
it worked great for a day after package update but then the package system
started adding some download
package directories to the Info-directory-list which caused the emacs info
mode to find the French versions
before anything else.  I still don't know what triggered the madness but
it's definitely happening during the
package load/init phase and has nothing to do with MS or the recent patches.

This was probably caused by the problem reported here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00360.html

Ken

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