Emacs 23 – Tramp and nxhtml fixes
January 17th, 2009
I just installed Emacs 23, and I wanted to give a heads-up to anyone who might be thinking of doing the same.
- For those of you who use the popular nxhtml package, which includes many extensions for editing web stuff (html, css, php, etc.) you will find that it will error out in emacs23 if you have it installed in an inaccessible directory (e.g. not your home directory). Easy solution is to move it to your home directory, which is really where all your downloaded extensions should be anyway. Additionally, I was having some issues with syntax highlighting, so I downloaded the latest beta of nxhtml. So far so good.
- If you’re like me, Tramp Mode (which allows you to transparently edit files on remote machines) is essential, crazy hack though it is. I was flipping out when I found it to initially not work after the upgrade. I ended up finding a solution in an obscure corner of the Internet, which mentions setting the
tramp-chunksizevariable to 500 for compatibility reasons. I did this, and not only did it fix my problem, but Tramp is blazing fast in comparison to what I was using before in Emacs 22 (perhaps suggesting that this may be a good thing to throw in there as well; not sure).
I think that about sums up any issues I’ve had so far; admittedly I haven’t had the chance to use it much yet. In general, it seems zippier, and hey! Anti-aliased fonts!