Re: [PACKAGES (dired)] Fix dired for SXEmacs

SY> I have tried very hard to maintain the current semantics so SY> that this patch doesn't affect _any_ currently supported SY> emacsen. That's not the same as emacsen currently in use, especially GNU Emacs which has a rather draconian approach to "support" (nothing except the last public release is considered "supported", although you get the best support for current CVS ;-). The problem is that all of emacs-minor-version, emacs-patch-version, and emacs-beta-version are post-v19 innovations IIRC. In particular I believe that there are some v19 versions (at least) which will throw an "unbound variable" error on emacs-minor-version. (I still have an old 386SX-50 in service as a router with XEmacs 19.14 on it! Not that I even have EFS installed there, space is that tight. :-) May I suggest a feature that might be generally useful, which is to special-case the arch-style version string, and provide that regexp in SXEmacs's core? Then protect it with a boundp test, which would allow use in Dired and EFS generically. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.