* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
@ 2013-09-16 15:19 Joe Fineman
2013-09-16 16:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-18 1:57 ` Joe Fineman
0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Joe Fineman @ 2013-09-16 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 15395
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.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-16 15:19 bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3 Joe Fineman
@ 2013-09-16 16:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-16 17:01 ` Joe Fineman
2013-09-17 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-18 1:57 ` Joe Fineman
1 sibling, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-09-16 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joe Fineman; +Cc: 15395
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.
You didn't give any details as to what kind of system you are using,
whether you compiled Emacs yourself, etc.
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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-16 16:05 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-09-16 17:01 ` Joe Fineman
2013-09-16 17:12 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-17 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Joe Fineman @ 2013-09-16 17:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris
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
||: The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. :||
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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-16 17:01 ` Joe Fineman
@ 2013-09-16 17:12 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-09-16 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joe Fineman; +Cc: 15395
(Please keep the debbugs address cc'd.)
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?
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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-16 16:05 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-16 17:01 ` Joe Fineman
@ 2013-09-17 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-17 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2013-09-17 11:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 15395, joe_f
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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.
Why are these in vc? That have nothing to do with vc, which is the
interface to version control systems.
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Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-17 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2013-09-17 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-09-17 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Stallman; +Cc: 15395, joe_f
> Why are these in vc? That have nothing to do with vc, which is the
> interface to version control systems.
No: lisp/vc is a subdirectory containing various packages related to
managing different versions of the same file. VC is there, of course,
but so is diff-mode, ediff, emerge, pcl-cvs, etc...
Stefan
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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-16 15:19 bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3 Joe Fineman
2013-09-16 16:05 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-09-18 1:57 ` Joe Fineman
2013-09-18 2:11 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Joe Fineman @ 2013-09-18 1:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: 15395
> (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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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-18 1:57 ` Joe Fineman
@ 2013-09-18 2:11 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-18 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-09-18 2:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joe Fineman; +Cc: 15395
Joe Fineman wrote:
> 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.
I'm guessing that something in your .emacs might mess up load-path.
Try comparing the value of load-path in emacs -Q and normal emacs, and
look for anything that has gone missing.
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* bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
2013-09-18 1:57 ` Joe Fineman
2013-09-18 2:11 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2013-09-18 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2368.1379470326.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2013-09-18 7:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joe Fineman; +Cc: 15395
> From: Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:57:12 -0400
> Cc: 15395@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > 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.
It can't be, since that URL provides a native Windows build of Emacs,
not a Cygwin build.
I'm guessing your Emacs was installed from a Cygwin package.
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* Re: bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
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@ 2013-09-18 19:31 ` Joe Fineman
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From: Joe Fineman @ 2013-09-18 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Joe Fineman wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I'm guessing that something in your .emacs might mess up load-path.
Very likely. I can no longer remember why, once upon a time, I
redefined load-path in .emacs, but over the years it has accreted quite
a lot. I have commented all that out, and given the default a fresh
start. It seems to be working.
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--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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