RE: XEmacs, clearcase mode problem

Hi Michael, Thanks for the patch. For some reason (possibly driver error) I wasn't able to apply the patch using the patch tool. Anyway I applied it manually, and recompiled that file. I got a few warnings about variables being bound but not referenced: While compiling clearcase-view-mode: ** variable was-one-window bound but not referenced [... etc] I figured these warnings were not significant since they refer to functions that I hadn't changed! (Bear in mind I am a lisp newbie :). None of the warnings referred to the clearcase-path-native function, which was the one I had patched. Unfortunately after recompiling the same symptom seems to be occuring. Here is a stack trace. Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) old-call-process-internal(nil nil #<buffer "cleartoolexecution<2>"> nil "cd" "x:\\cirs\\") apply(old-call-process-internal nil nil #<buffer "cleartoolexecution<2>"> nil ("cd" "x:\\cirs\\")) call-process-internal(nil nil #<buffer "cleartoolexecution<2>"> nil "cd" "x:\\cirs\\") apply(call-process-internal nil nil #<buffer "cleartoolexecution<2>"> nil ("cd" "x:\\cirs\\")) call-process(nil nil #<buffer "cleartoolexecution<2>"> nil "cd" "x:\\cirs\\") apply(call-process nil nil #<buffer "cleartoolexecution<2>"> nil ("cd" "x:\\cirs\\")) clearcase-ct-get-command-stdout(nil "cd" "x:\\cirs\\") apply(clearcase-ct-get-command-stdout nil ("cd" "x:\\cirs\\")) clearcase-ct-blocking-call("cd" "x:\\cirs\\") clearcase-ct-cd("/cygdrive/x/cirs/") clearcase-ct-do-cleartool-command("describe" "/cygdrive/x/cirs/run_cruise.sh" unused) clearcase-describe("/cygdrive/x/cirs/run_cruise.sh") #<compiled-function nil "...(4)" [buffer-file-name clearcase-describe] 2 ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/clearcase/clearcase.elc" . 35490) nil>() call-interactively(clearcase-describe-current-buffer) command-execute(clearcase-describe-current-buffer t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) By the way I notice that cygwin path conversion is a highly troublesome process (in fact probably the most difficult thing about running cygwin!), but it is performed multiple times in various xemacs packages. For example your clearcase mode does it, but there is also a fairly extensive (from what I have seen) set of cygwin path conversion functions inside JDE, and possibly other packages as well. The JDE functions are particularly noteworthy as they optionally remove the need to invoke the cygpath tool via shell command; instead everything is done in lisp. I think that's right anwyay... So my suggestion is to create a separate package for cygwin-only stuff, usable by clearcase, JDE, and any other package that needs to do path conversion. Any thoughts on this?