Bug 249362 - incompatible t-mouse elisp library
Summary: incompatible t-mouse elisp library
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gpm
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Janousek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-23 22:40 UTC by Ben Liblit
Modified: 2008-08-01 16:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-21 06:22:54 UTC
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Description Ben Liblit 2007-07-23 22:40:18 UTC
Description of problem:

Both emacs-common-22.1-1.fc7 and gpm-1.20.1-84.fc7 provide "t-mouse" elisp
libraries:

    /usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/t-mouse.elc    // from emacs-common
    /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/t-mouse.el     // from gpm

However, these two implementations are not identical and not completely
compatible.  In particular, the emacs version provides a "t-mouse-mode" minor
mode toggle function, whereas the gpm version does not.  Unfortunately, emacs
initially comes up with "t-mouse-mode" registered as an autoloadable function. 
So it appears one can call "t-mouse-mode", but if the gpm version gets loaded
first, no such function is defined and an error results.

Inspection of the respective sources (install emacs-el if necessary) suggests
that the emacs version is newer.  Therefore I recommend that the gpm version be
removed.

Comment 1 Tomas Janousek 2007-07-24 14:17:35 UTC
Yeah, definitely, I removed it, rebuilt in rawhide and will push it with an
update when something bigger comes out.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 13:38:43 UTC
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Comment 3 Ben Liblit 2008-05-21 06:21:38 UTC
I confirm that gpm-1.20.1-90.fc9.i386 no longer provides a "t-mouse.el" file. 
Changing status to VERIFIED.

Comment 4 Ben Liblit 2008-05-21 06:22:54 UTC
Oops, looks like I was really supposed to mark this as CLOSED.


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