Dired 7.10alpha package available for testing

I've finally zipped through most of the outstanding patches for Dired, applied them, did some work of my own, and checked a new Dired into the packages CVS repo, dubbed 7.10 AKA package version 1.10. Please give it a try and let me know how it goes, whether good or bad. Note that I need both success and failure reports to make an actual package release. Please try Dired on as many systems as you have access to, and use it via EFS to remotely edit directories on as many systems as possible. I'm especially interested in Windows, as I don't test on that platform myself. Let me know (via personal email) how it goes. Dired 7.10 no longer provides its own diff-parsing mode in diff.el but instead relies on Stefan Monnier's diff-mode which is not in the XEmacs package tree yet. I have finished a port of diff-mode and expect it to be integrated within the next few days. Until then, you can still use Dired, it's only the diff functionality which won't work. Since the absence of diff-mode also does affect compilability, I've put a binary package at http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/software/efs/dire... Steve (Youngs, that is): Under no circumstances release the present code until I give the thumbs-up. I apologize for taking so long with this. It's not as easy as it looks. I appreciate your willingness to help test Dired. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla