I'm sorry, but I haven't tried the beta yet, so I don't know whether
there is any change in these issues, but since I've never gotten any
response from asking about these issues in the normal channels, I
thought I would ask here.
I wanted to know if anyone is aware of any change in status of two
issues that concern me. It's not clear to me whether these issues are
really known, even though I reported them.
The first is that "run-at-time" doesn't work. It fails with a stack
trace, apparently because of a slight incompatibility between the
timer functions between Emacs and XEmacs.
This is the stack trace from it:
Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p nil)
itimer-time-difference((14988 49632) (14988 5091 710000))
timer-set-time((nil 0 nil ignore nil nil nil (0 0 0)) (14988 49632) 86400)
run-at-time("10:00pm" 86400 run-cleanTEMP)
eval((run-at-time "10:00pm" (* 60 60 24) (quote run-cleanTEMP)))
eval-interactive((run-at-time "10:00pm" (* 60 60 24) (quote run-cleanTEMP)))
eval-last-sexp(nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
command-execute(eval-last-sexp t)
execute-extended-command(nil)
call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
I reported this as an XEmacs bug.
The second issue is that EFS in Cygwin-XEmacs is unusable, probably
due to the fact that I am set to Unix text file mode. When I try to
visit an exact path to an existing file on a remote system (Solaris),
it seems to think the file is nonexistent, so it just gives me an
empty buffer. When I try to do completion on a partial path, it gives
me a completion buffer where all the elements end with "^M". If I
complete with one of those elements, it puts the "^M" into the path in
the minibuffer. If I finally select that element, it also essentially
says it doesn't exist, but this gives me a stack trace with the
following first line:
Signaling: (ftp-error "Opening input file:" "FTP Error:
/dkarr@cheetos:/home/dkarr/.profile
not arrived or readable")
If the element I select is a directory, I can complete that in the
minibuffer, and then try to complete from that, so I can get the files
in that directory in the completion buffer. I can continue in this
way, as long as I only ever use directory names, not files.
I reported this to the EFS list, and I wrote a note about it in one of
the normal XEmacs lists.
I know there's a great deal of work necessary to get the new release
out, I'm just looking for some sort of acknowledgement or status on
these issues.
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