================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I run 21.1.12 at work, not by choice. This is what our admins have set up here and I think this is from some old FreeBSD package. But I use a personal copy of all packages, so that I can atleast keep packages up to date. Recently I upated Dired, to package version 1.14. With this upgrade, M-x dired no longer works with 21.1.12. At home I run 21.5.x and everything is cool there. There seems to be some sort of backward compatibility problem. When I run M-x dired (or C-x d) and enter the directory, I get the following error and dired just stops. No directory, nothing. Wrong number of arguments: #<compiled-function (&optional buffer-or-string from to flags) "...(11)" [mapcar-extents identity nil buffer-or-string from to flags] 7 664556>, 5 After edebug-ing around for sometime (which was another weird experience; fascinating debugger), I finally found that dired-xemacs.el uses extent-list with 5 arguments, in dired-set-text-properties, dired-maybe-filename-start and dired-maybe-filename-end but extent-list in 21.1.12 takes only 4 arguments. It looks like newer versions of XEmacs have extent-list taking 6 arguments: ,----[ extent-list ] | `extent-list' is a Lisp function | -- loaded from "/home/kaarthik/.xemacs/init.el" | (extent-list &optional BUFFER-OR-STRING FROM TO FLAGS PROPERTY VALUE) | | Documentation: | Return a list of the extents in BUFFER-OR-STRING. | [...] `---- So I got extent-list and mapcar-extents (extent-list depends on this and this is also different) from the beta at home and put them into my init.el and now everything is cool again. I am filing this bug in the assumption that packages are meant to be backward compatible, but if that assumption is not valid or if 21.1.12 is not a supported version anymore, then send this bug to /dev/null and I wouldnt mind. I have been asking my sysadmins to upgrade XEmacs for months now but given the slim chance of that actually happening, is there any reason I shouldnt be using extent-list and mapcar-extents from the beta like I am doing now? Thanks kaarthik ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: FreeBSD gohan10.FreeBSD.org 4.2-BETA FreeBSD 4.2-BETA #0: Sat Nov 11 23:51:14 GMT 2000 root＠bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/CLUSTER i386 ./configure '--with-clash-detection' '--lockdir=/var/run/emacs/lock' '--with-sound=native' '--with-session=yes' '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--with-png=yes' '--with-tiff=yes' '--with-site-lisp' '--with-database=berkdb' '--with-xface=no' '--with-offix=no' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'i386--freebsd' XEmacs 21.1.12 "Channel Islands" configured for `i386--freebsd'. Where should the build process find the source code? /tmp/a/ports/editors/xemacs21/work/xemacs-21.1.12 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/freebsd.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? cc -O -pipe Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Additional header files: /usr/local/include Additional libraries: /usr/local/lib Runtime library search path: /usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/libexec Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. Clash detection will use "/var/run/emacs/lock" for locking files. movemail will use "flock" for locking mail spool files. 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