Re: occasional failure to rename

[David Kastrup]

knubee <knubee@gmail.com> writes:

>>  > > > Weird.  Do you use wdired (aka "Edit File Names")?
>>  > >
>>  > > Yes. As far as I can tell I have the latest version:  1.9.2pre3
>>
>> Emacs 22.1 has version 2.0.  What are your Emacs version and operating
>> system?
>
> Ah, that solved it! I have 22.1 on ubuntu -- but I still had the old
> version of wdired in my local elisp directory, so the new version in
> the distrubution was being shadowed. removing the old wdired file
> fixed things.
>
> Is there a straightforward way of comparing which packages one has
> loaded locally versus those that have been incorporated into the
> distribution?

At least
M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

can provide some sort of a hint what might be duplicated.  Comparing
the versions is not easy, however, since you can't load both files at
once.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum