Re: g-client: character coding problem

[Hadron]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Joseph Fahey <fahey@fabula.org> writes:
>>
>>>>>>>> "h" == Hadron  <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>     h> Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>>     >> Joseph Fahey <fahey@fabula.org> writes:
>>>     >> 
>>>     >>> I am trying to use T. V. Ramah's g-client interface to the
>>>     >>> Google API, in particular as an interface to Blogger.
>>>     >>> 
>>>     >>> 
>>> http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2007/03/emacs-client-for-google-services.html#cooliris
>>>     >> 
>>>     >> With emacs 23 I get this error
>>>     >> 
>>>     >> ,---- | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open
>>>     >> load file" "g-cus-load") | load("g-cus-load") |
>>>     >> load-library("g-cus-load") |
>>>     >> byte-code("ÀÁÂÃÄÅ%.ÆÇ!.ÆÈ!.ÉÊË\".ÌÁ!."
>>>     >> [custom-declare-group g nil "Google Client" :group applications
>>>     >> load-library "g-loaddefs" "g-cus-load" add-hook
>>>     >> calendar-mode-hook gcal-emacs-calendar-setup provide] 6) |
>>>     >> load("g") | load-library("g") | eval((load-library "g")) |
>>>     >> eval-last-sexp-1(nil) | eval-last-sexp(nil) |
>>>     >> call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) `----
>>>     >> 
>>>     >> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>     h> ok, just commenting out the line in g.el which loads g-cus-load
>>>     h> gets it working, but what lisp would load the file only if it
>>>     h> exists?
>>>
>>> That problem has been fixed in the most recent svn version. When I
>>> first installed g-client, the fix was to add your own g-cus-load.el
>>> file that would be empty except for "(provide 'g-cus-load)".
>>>
>>> Joe
>>
>> Why would anyone leave the main release with an error in it that
>> literally stops emacs loading properly? Strange.
>
> Not that strange if you realise g-client has been developed as part of
> emacspeak and if you use it with emacspeak, that file is not empty.
>
> BTW, can someone tell me what emacs 23 is? I'm running from CVS and it reports
> the version as emacs 22. I've seen a number of references to emacs 23, which
> I've not heard of and didn't think existed (given that I would expect the CVS
> to be the latest version).
>

I installed from here.

http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/01/06/pretty-emacs/