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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:43:47 -0400
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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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