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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: |
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:01:44 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Joe Fineman wrote:
>
>> On upgrading from GNU Emacs 22.3 to 24.3, I found that the command
>> compare-windows did not work. The documentation for it was there, but
>> the library (compare-w.el) was missing. On copying compare-w.el &
>> compare-w.elc from Emacs 22.3, the difficulty vanished.
>
> Sorry, that doesn't make any sense to me.
>
> 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.
> You didn't give any details as to what kind of system you are using,
> whether you compiled Emacs yourself, etc.
I apologize. I meant to do so, but forgot. 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.
Thank you for your patience.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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