On Jun 18, 2015 9:31 AM, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:13:13 +0100
> > From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> > Cc: 20839@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I was aiding someone remotely and I assumed this was the issue. I'll ask them
> > to file a bug report themselves.
>
> I see no bug report,
Well, it's been only 13h. :-)
> and I suspect the user might be contempt with the
> "sledgehammer" (their word) solution mentioned there, and so that
> report will never materialize.
Actually, he's been responding to my questions even after posting his solution, so he's probably willing to help.
>Should we close this bug?
Yes. We should close it anyway. I was just going to tell him to M-x report-emacs-bug, so that would be a new report anyway.
> has one more unknown, as far as I'm concerned: the value of 'dir'.
> That comes from this, AFAICS:
>
> (package-desc-dir pkg-desc)
>
> So it would e nice if the value that comes out of that on that user's
> system could be reported.
I think it's the same value you get on the package description buffer, but I can't check ATM (floor closed off as a fire hazard).
In any case, we can give him an advice to report that value if he files a report.
> Also, could any of the other packages that user loads overload the
> functions involved in calculating file-in-directory-p?
Well, this *is* emacs.