Re: Why I attempted to port dired/VC from emacs

Rodney> Right, when you get the mangling error, you are stuck. Rodney> Basically, I get that all of the time. So, vc-dired is not Rodney> working here. Does it work for you? Dired doesn't set the buffer to vc-dired-mode. This patch fixes this. There are still unresolved issues but with this it is possible to get a working buffer sometimes if you don't give up ... ;-) "cvs diff -u" in /src/xemacs/packages/xemacs-packages/dired/ Index: dired.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/dired/dired.el,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.11 dired.el --- dired.el 13 Jan 2008 14:51:20 -0000 1.11 +++ dired.el 21 Apr 2009 22:44:39 -0000 ＠＠ -1751,7 +1751,8 ＠＠ (setq default-directory (file-name-directory dirname) wildcard t)) (or switches (setq switches dired-listing-switches)) - (dired-mode dirname switches) + (if mode (funcall mode) + (dired-mode dirname switches)) ;; default-directory and dired-internal-switches are set now ;; (buffer-local), so we can call dired-readin: (let ((failed t)) Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta