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1 These lisp files should work under recent versions (19 onwards) of
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2 both Emacs and XEmacs. See the Octave documentation (info node
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3 `Emacs') on how to install and use these packages.
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5 These files use the custom package so that user variables can be
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6 changed easily. The custom package has been included in Emacs since
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7 around version 19.34. If you have an old version of Emacs without the
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8 custom package, you should get the following error when trying to load
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9 the octave files:
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11 Cannot open load file: custom
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13 In this case, you should use the simple replacement custom library
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14 here, renaming it to custom.el so that Emacs can find it:
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16 % mv custom-old.el custom.el
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18 But remember when you upgrade Emacs to version 20 and beyond, you
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19 should delete this primitive custom file and use the built-in version
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20 instead.