Subject: Re: bug#75307: framemove installation fails

From: Mats Lidell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:12:40 +0100

> Mats Lidell writes:
> > root@beastie writes:
> > I use:  Editor:      GNU Emacs 29.4 
> >     Hyperbole:   9.0.2pre
> >     Sys Type:    x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0
> >     OS Type:     darwin
> >     Window Sys:  ns
> >     News Reader: Gnus v5.13
> >     Install:     melpa, 20241229.1933
> >
> > When trying to use HyControl's frame move (M K keys), it prompts you
> > to install the `framemove' package which doesn't exist in the GNU or
> > melpa package collections.
>
> Confirmed. Thanks for letting us know.
>
> Seems framemove was removed from Melpa back in 2017(!). See commit
> https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/5008.
>
> A temporary workaround, while we work on solving the issue, is to install the
> package using the instructions from the EmacsWiki. See
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FrameMove

The latest version of Hyperbole on Elpa devel now gives an errors message when
a command that requires framemove is used. The error message points the user
to a repo where the package can be found for manual installation.

This is not ideal, and we are sorry for that. A proper solution will have to
wait to a future release.

%% Mats