Re: VERSION CONTROL IN XEMACS (XEMACS-21.1.7) DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY

system> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 40 Jan 17 12:08 /usr/bin/xemacs system> -> ../lib/xemacs-21.1.14/bin/xemacs-21.1.14 system> Executed xemacs from the above dir which contains two system> subdirectories RCS & SCCS. then did 'Tools ->VC ->Load VC' system> from the menu. again 'Tools->VC->CVS Update Directory' it system> opens one small window with all the dir that are present system> from where xemacs is invoked. then selected RCS dir & system> pressed <RET> key. It is not showing/picking RCS file from system> this dir. I don't understand why "CVS Update Directory" should be expected to do anything with RCS files. system> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 34 Aug 10 1999 /usr/bin/xemacs＠ system> -> ../lib/xemacs-20.4/bin/xemacs-20.4* system> Could able to do 'Tools->VC->CVS Update Directory' system> straight away without doing 'Tools ->VC ->Load VC' it system> opens one small window with all the dir that are present system> from where xemacs is invoked. then selected RCS dir & system> pressed <RET> key. It is showing/picking RCS file from system> this dir. It is quite unclear from this description what exactly is desired. I suspect that the 20.4 behavior is an "accidental" side effect that got removed from later versions ("CVS Update Directory" is documented as running "cvs update" on the directory, which should do nothing if the directory does not have a proper CVS subdirectory). With more details we could probably suggest a way to get the desired behavior using the revised UI. If you really want the 20.4 behavior including the "side effect", then you can do something like the following (assuming the 20.4 and 21.1.14 installations are on the same machine under the roots /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4 and /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.14 respectively): 1. Delete the vc package from the 21.1.14 installation (use Tools | Packages | List and Install). 2. Invoke 21.1.14 with something like the following (Bourne sh notation) EMACSPACKAGEPATH="~/.xemacs::/usr/lib/xemacs::/usr/lib/xemacs-20.4" export EMACSPACKAGEPATH /usr/bin/xemacs-21.1.14 & -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.