https://www.bennee.com/~alex/2010-01-19T10:56:00+00:00the wanderings of a supposed digital native2010-01-19T10:56:00+00:002010-01-19T10:56:00+00:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2010-01-19:/~alex/blog/2010/01/19/todays-ubuntu-emacs-ppa-tip/

<p>Like many Emacs users I use the excellent <a class="reference external" href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa">Ubuntu Elisp PPA</a> to get a more recent Emacs than the main distro repos package. However I'd been puzzled as to why <em>emacs-snapshot</em> hadn't been updated in ages. The was doubly confusing as the <a class="reference external" href="http://emacs.orebokech.com/">orebokech</a> packages on which they are based and …</p>

<p>Like many Emacs users I use the excellent <a class="reference external" href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa">Ubuntu Elisp PPA</a> to get a more recent Emacs than the main distro repos package. However I'd been puzzled as to why <em>emacs-snapshot</em> hadn't been updated in ages. The was doubly confusing as the <a class="reference external" href="http://emacs.orebokech.com/">orebokech</a> packages on which they are based and I use on my server had seen a couple of version bumps.</p> <p>Turns out <em>emacs-snapshot</em> is no longer packaged by the PPA, but <em>emacs23</em> is. Once I'd installed that my little (make-frame-on-display) <a class="reference external" href="http://github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome/issues/closed#issue/2">problem</a> went away.</p>