Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Patch for Cygwin's Emacs dired.el and loaddefs.el Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:59:32 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g85LkGd07244 Below is a pair of patches that I submitted to the Emacs project. This fixes a Cygwin-specific problem, namely, that the 'dired' "change owner" command (shift-o) does not work in Emacs in the Cygwin environment because 'cygwin' was not being included the list of systems returned by 'system-type'. If you would like to applies these patches to your installation of Emacs, do the following: 1. If you haven't downloaded the 'emacs-el' package (in the Editors category in setup.exe), then you need to do that so you'll have the lisp files that need to be patched. 2. If you don't have 'patch' installed, you'll need that also. It's in the Utils category in setup.exe. (Or, you can read the patches below and edit your .el files.) 3. After you have installed these two packages, set your current working directory to the Emacs Lisp directory. By default, this is /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp. $ cd /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp 4. Cut & paste the first patch below to the (new) text file 'dired.patch'. Cut & paste the second patch below to the (new) text file 'loaddefs.patch'. 5. Patch the .el files with the 'patch' utility. Of course, you can also byte-compile the new versions of these two .el files. Patch 1: $ patch -p0 < dired.patch --- dired.el.orig 2002-09-04 19:50:41.000000000 -0400 +++ dired.el 2002-09-04 19:51:01.000000000 -0400 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ ;;;###autoload (defvar dired-chown-program - (if (memq system-type '(hpux dgux usg-unix-v irix linux gnu/linux)) + (if (memq system-type '(cygwin hpux dgux usg-unix-v irix linux gnu/linux)) "chown" (if (file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/chown") "/usr/sbin/chown" Patch 2: $ patch -p0 < loaddefs.patch --- loaddefs.el.orig 2002-09-04 19:54:02.000000000 -0400 +++ loaddefs.el 2002-09-04 19:54:26.000000000 -0400 @@ -4711,7 +4711,7 @@ may contain even `F', `b', `i' and `s'. See also the variable `dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks' concerning the `F' switch.") -(defvar dired-chown-program (if (memq system-type (quote (hpux dgux usg-unix-v irix linux gnu/linux))) "chown" (if (file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/chown") "/usr/sbin/chown" "/etc/chown")) "\ +(defvar dired-chown-program (if (memq system-type (quote (cygwin hpux dgux usg-unix-v irix linux gnu/linux))) "chown" (if (file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/chown") "/usr/sbin/chown" "/etc/chown")) "\ Name of chown command (usually `chown' or `/etc/chown').") (defvar dired-ls-F-marks-symlinks nil "\ === End of patches === -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/