Troubleshooting

pymacs problem with archlinux Archlinux has python 3 as default, but pymacs works better with python 2, to set pymacs for python 2 you have to configure this variable in your bashrc:

export PYMACS_PYTHON=python2

emacs 22 problems Emacs 22 is usually not well supported, one problem encountered by user is that region-active-p is not defined, it can be solved adding this line to your .emacs:

(defun region-active-p () (and transient-mark-mode mark-active))