From: Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#15395: 24.3; compare-windows missing in 24.3
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:01:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84vc20u2dj.fsf@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1kob7skazk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:05:51 -0400")
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.
--
--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
||: The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. :||
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-16 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2013-09-16 17:12 ` Glenn Morris
2013-09-17 11:24 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-17 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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>
2013-09-18 19:31 ` Joe Fineman
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