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bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
From: |
Joe Fineman |
Subject: |
bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3 |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:57:12 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
> (Please keep the debbugs address cc'd.)
Noted.
> Joe Fineman wrote:
> >> The 24.3 tar file available from ftp.gnu.org includes
> >> compare-w.el and compare-w.elc. Note that they live in a vc/
> >> subdirectory of lisp now.
> >
> > That seems to have been the problem. It seems that Emacs was not
> > looking there -- and, needless to say, neither was I.
> In what way was Emacs "not looking there"?
> Please give a complete recipe that shows the problem, starting from
> emacs -Q.
> > For my many sins, I am running it under Windows XP Professional
> > Service Pack 3 Build 2600 with Cygwin 1.5.25(0.156/4/2). I did not
> > compile it myself.
> Is it the version from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/,
> or from somewhere else?
I don't remember.
I renamed away the compare-w.* files I had copied into /emacs-24.3.
Then, as before, compare-windows did not work: it gave the error
message "Cannot open load file: compare-w".
I then brought up emacs -Q from Cygwin. There, compare-windows
worked.
I then added /emacs-24.3/lisp/vc to my load path in .emacs.
Thereupon, compare-windows worked in my own Emacs.
It appears that something I did, in my .emacs file or elsewhere,
caused my Emacs not to load lisp/vc.
I have had similar problems with previous versions of Emacs --
libraries that were there, but were not being looked at -- and solved
them the same way, by putting them explicitly in the load path. This
time, it did not occur to me to do a thoro search for the missing
compare-w.*; I supposed it had been left out instead of tucked away.
It seems not to have been a bug, but one way or another, the thing is
working now. Thank you for your efforts and your patience.
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