Conflicting versions of read-kbd-macro and friends

Dear Bug Team! I last reported this problem on June 13, 2000 (according to Google). It has still not been resolved in XEmacs, and it really is a problem. The calc package contains a file named macedit.el, which exports edit-last-kbd-macro, edit-kbd-macro and read-kbd-macro. This means that a user who wants to edit-last-kbd-macro will have that command loaded from macedit.el. The problem is that these functions are obsolete. Try this: (load-library "macedit") (read-kbd-macro "<button2up>") (load-library "edmacro") (read-kbd-macro "<button2up>") The first returns the string unchanged. The second correctly returns the vector [button2up]. This in turn means that any function or macro (such as kbd) that relies on read-kbd-macro will fail on things like mouse button descriptions. To fix, simply remove macedit.el from the package. It is no longer needed since the interface that it provides is now implemented by edmacro. -- David Byers. davby(a)ida.liu.se System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux eeyore 2.4.19-pre5-eeyore #1 Fri Apr 5 00:42:42 EST 2002 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-sound=none,native' '--cflags=-O2 -g -Wall' '--with-x11' '--extra-verbose' '--with-site-lisp' '--statedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs-21.4.6' '--prefix=/usr' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--dynamic' '--without-postgresql' '--with-gpm=no' '--with_menubars=lucid' '--with_scrollbars=lucid' '--with_dialogs=athena' '--docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.6/i386-debian-linux/mule/' '--with-mule' '--with-canna=no' '--with-wnn=no' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/mule-packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages' 'i386-debian-linux' XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" configured for `i386-debian-linux'. 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