From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4727ABB81 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:24:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from pop-a065d10.pas.sa.earthlink.net (pop-a065d10.pas.sa.earthlink.net [207.217.121.251]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBOIOhv3017117 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:24:44 +0100 Received: from cpe-24-221-194-21.co.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.194.21] helo=[192.168.1.103]) by pop-a065d10.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Chu7E-0003mi-00; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:24:40 -0800 Message-ID: <41CC5E43.3070802@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:21:55 -0700 From: "Matthew O'Connor" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041222) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Philippe_Lel=E9dy?= Cc: Caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wishes for an easy install of Ocaml References: <41CBDA52.9040608@leledy.org> In-Reply-To: <41CBDA52.9040608@leledy.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41CC5EEB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 emacs:01 tuareg:01 emacs:01 load-path:01 apt-get:01 unix:01 caml:02 debian:02 programming:03 install:05 manual:07 load:08 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Philippe Lelédy wrote: > but it is not enough, adding some obscure lines to .emacs is necessary > b/c the old Caml mode is effective by default but Tuareg is not. Time > spent to explain that is very counter-productive to Unix new-bies. > Debian tuareg-mode does half the job by adding tuareg-mode directory to > emacs load-path, but manual addition of (load "append-tuareg") is still > necessary. > As this is their first programming class, you could just provide a fixed .emacs and tell them to copy it into their home directory (as they won't have their own .emacs with customization yet). Then it's an apt-get and a copy, which shouldn't be too hard. :-) Matt