From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:01:44 -0400 Message-ID: <84vc20u2dj.fsf@verizon.net> References: <841u4ovlnn.fsf@verizon.net> <1kob7skazk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379351411 21271 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2013 17:10:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:10:11 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: rgm@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 16 19:10:14 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcJO-00006G-Et for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:10:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcJN-0006Do-Il for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcJI-0006By-Ud for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcJH-00023X-Q1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcJH-00023Q-NM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcJG-0005Xx-Nt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:10:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Joe Fineman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15395 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15395-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15395.137935135521259 (code B ref 15395); Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15395) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Sep 2013 17:09:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41415 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcIV-0005Wp-7w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:09:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:51669 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcIU-0005Wi-1e for 15395@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VLcIT-000120-CU for 15395@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:09:13 -0400 Resent-Message-ID: <21047.15161.201057.394314@gnu.org> Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:09:13 -0400 Resent-From: Glenn Morris Resent-To: 15395@debbugs.gnu.org In-reply-to: <1kob7skazk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:05:51 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Bogosity: no, spamicity=0.088550, v1.2.1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:78456 Archived-At: Glenn Morris 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. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. :||