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An emacs major mode for the Nim programming language
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better instructions for beginners #131

Closed krux02 closed 8 years ago

yuutayamada commented 8 years ago

Currently only emacs 25 and higher is supported, if you try to install on latest stable release, you will run into this problem.

I think this issue was solved. I also made sure 24.5.1 with package-list-packages and Emacs -Q (-Q is without any user configuration). Or is there another problem? (recently Emacs devel released Emacs 25 RC, so this issue may disappear anyway though)

krux02 commented 8 years ago

I have emacs 24.5-4 on arch linux and I can ensure you, it does not work. It always complains about internal--listify to be not defined. last time I tried it, it didn't even work with subr+ being installed.

yuutayamada commented 8 years ago

@krux02 could you modify README's PR? (On arch's emacs, nim-mode doesn't highlight) or maybe you should wait till arch's package manager use emacs25 because Emacs25's RC version was released recently.

krux02 commented 8 years ago

what does it mean that the RC was released recently? How long do we need to wait for that version? Tomorrow I will test how well this version works on the linux machines at my university. They have Ubuntu LTS versions, but I don't know the version at the moment. It's not as new as the version I have on my arch linux.

yuutayamada commented 8 years ago

what does it mean that the RC was released recently? How long do we need to wait for that version?

RC is Release Candidates. If the RC is no problem, emacs devel will release emacs 25. But, sorry I don't know how long it take...

krux02 commented 8 years ago

With the current development speed of emacs, and the general conservative nature of the emacs commutiny, I would guess it takes a year. And no I am not sarcastic that is truely what I think.

krux02 commented 8 years ago

@yuutayamada Since you could reproduce the problem I had on Arch also on Ubuntu, I suggest I don't say it's an Arch specific problem. But I did add to the instructions, that you need a special branch of nimsuggest, because of what you suggested me to use in https://github.com/nim-lang/nim-mode/issues/134

yuutayamada commented 8 years ago

I did add to the instructions, that you need a special branch of nimsuggest, ...

Thank you. I hoped the major-restructure branch merged soon, but it may take awhile...

krux02 commented 8 years ago

So is there any reason left to not merge this pull request?

yuutayamada commented 8 years ago

Please modify about #100 if nim-mode's recent change fixed the highlight issue on arch.

krux02 commented 8 years ago

what should I modify?

yuutayamada commented 8 years ago

I think you can delete the part of:

An emacs major mode for the Nim programming language. Currently only emacs 25 and higher is supported, if you try to install on latest stable release, you will run into this problem. On arch linux you can install latest version of emacs with yaourt emacs-git, but be warned a complete build will need about 45 minutes (also depends on your hardware).