Re: Dired 7.9 bug: characterp [dired.el] -- UNDEFINED in Emacs 19.34
Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
07 Sep 1998 13:38:52 +0200
>>>>> "Martin" =3D=3D Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
Martin> I'm a little frustrated.
Martin> - I downloaded efs-1.16 in order to be up-to-date and the hope to get
Martin> an efs version that would work with GNU emacs 20.3
Martin> - This *REQUIRED* the installation of dired-7.9.
Ermh, yes. It says so in the INSTALL file.
Martin> In dired-7.9 installation:
Martin> No mentioning of GNU Emacs 20.x [ok; I thought 19.34 should work]
Indeed. There is no difference between 19.34 or higher and 20.0, as
far as EFS and Dired are concerned.
--> BUT: Font-lock stops working when I use dired-7.9,
Martin> both with GNU Emacs 19.34 and 20.3.
I'm not sure what you're implying here. There is no fontification in
the Dired distribution for GNU Emacs, since nobody has written the
code yet. (Note that fontification does work in XEmacs.) Nothing in
the distribution suggests that it should work.
Martin> EVEN WORSE: because 'characterp' is used in dired.el and is *NOT* in
Martin> 19.34, I cannot (e.g.) copy files anymore (within dired) !!
This is a known bug and will be fixed in the next release. Just add
the following to dired-fsf.el:
(defalias 'characterp 'integerp)
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
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