From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: occasional failure to rename Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:06:30 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85sl5oqkbt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1189328073.268810.44110@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189334681 31471 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2007 10:44:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 10:44:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 20:44:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IUQnn-0005rZ-K2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:42:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUJJR-00050P-DS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:42:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.n-ix.net!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EvRLW5bJT0fCbV/DMVV/SuHmuOo= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Sep 2007 11:06:30 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 9e29ab69.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=\6WFB1<\@ES=>bdbdS?M0YMcF=Q^Z^V3X4Fo<]lROoRQ^; 5]aA^R6>RPh; 3>V1_LiI6ENVa]3>5MOK`; S:bhJ\MP5j0X_H19RoD97OJZdbn_ Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151882 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47397 Archived-At: knubee 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