levenshtein-20141029.816.el is incorrect
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When I tried to install cmake-ide, Emacs complained about
Symbol's value as variable is void: <!DOCTYPE
It's caused by levenshtein-20141029.816.el, which seems not an elisp file.
Same problem here, it seems related to melpa:
https://melpa.org/packages/levenshtein-20141029.816.el
As a quick fix, you can manually dowload the original source code here:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/levenshtein.el
It has been reported: melpa/melpa#4275
@matt-42 So do you know how to do that? I try to replace the existing levenshtein.el (with HTML) in my elpa folder, but the next time I start emacs it deletes levenshtein and cmake-ide as orphan packages. :(
@rubicus I just ran into this myself. I downloaded the .el file but then you have to recompile it. Your emacs is loading the byte code from the broken version. Simply run this:
emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile elpa/levenshtein-20141029.816/levenshtein.el
and you should be ok.
Hm, that command didn't seem to do it for me (still deleted the package at the next startup), but running emacs-lisp-byte-compile from inside the file itself after editing it, did it! Thanks!