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Article #998Re: Check for W3 fails with newer W3 versions
From: Paul D. Smith
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:33
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:33
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%% kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes: kj> Paul D. Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote: >> VM checks to see if W3 is _really_ loaded by checking if fboundp >> w3-about. >> >> However, the latest versions of W3 (the ones that work with Emacs 21 >> for example) don't appear to have that function, or even the w3-about.el >> file, any longer. Thus, no matter whether W3 is loaded or not VM thinks >> that it isn't. kj> Actually, VM just wants the function to be autoloadable. I kj> downloaded w3-4.0pre.47 and it still has the autoload cookie for kj> the w3-about definition. I dunno what to tell you; it doesn't work for me (otherwise I would never have noticed this :). Also, if I do a "find" of my installed w3 .el and .elc files looking for the token "w3-about" I get back no matches. If there is a reference to it somewhere in the source tree, then that reference is not actually propagated into the installed version of the code. FYI, I'm using w3-4.0pre.46. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <psmith@gnu.org> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,8e3524946b0ebaee X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-19 15:49:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!torn!qcarhaaa.nortelnetworks.com!bcarh189.ca.nortel.com!bcarh8ac.ca.nortel.com!bcarh8ab.ca.nortel.com!not-for-mail From: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith@gnu.org> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: Re: Check for W3 fails with newer W3 versions Date: 19 Feb 2002 18:33:31 -0500 Organization: GNU's Not Unix! Lines: 33 Message-ID: <p5u1sdgi7o.fsf@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> References: <p53d0bzi7q.fsf@lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com> <u75mngavps3u08@corp.supernews.com> Reply-To: psmith@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lemming.engeast.baynetworks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1