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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: occasional failure to rename
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:06:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85sl5oqkbt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1189328073.268810.44110@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com

knubee <knubee@gmail.com> writes:

>>  > > > Weird.  Do you use wdired (aka "Edit File Names")?
>>  > >
>>  > > Yes. As far as I can tell I have the latest version:  1.9.2pre3
>>
>> Emacs 22.1 has version 2.0.  What are your Emacs version and operating
>> system?
>
> Ah, that solved it! I have 22.1 on ubuntu -- but I still had the old
> version of wdired in my local elisp directory, so the new version in
> the distrubution was being shadowed. removing the old wdired file
> fixed things.
>
> Is there a straightforward way of comparing which packages one has
> loaded locally versus those that have been incorporated into the
> distribution?

At least
M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

can provide some sort of a hint what might be duplicated.  Comparing
the versions is not easy, however, since you can't load both files at
once.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-09  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2007-09-09  8:54 ` occasional failure to rename knubee
2007-09-09  9:06   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-09  9:13     ` knubee
2007-09-09  7:46 martin rudalics
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2007-09-08 23:40 ` knubee
2007-09-09  0:34   ` knubee
2007-09-09  0:47     ` knubee
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2007-09-08 17:18 martin rudalics
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2007-09-08 14:03 ` knubee
2007-09-08 10:46 martin rudalics
2007-09-08  0:35 knubee

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