Re: ediff in RCS

[Hadron]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I have downloaded to my lisp path the following
>>
>> vc+.el  vc-.el  vc-ediff.el  vc-hooks+.el
>>
>> (I can find no documentation on them or installation guides but ran
>> across them from the emacs wiki)
>>
>> I have added
>>
>> (require 'vc-hooks+)
>>
>> to my init files.
>>
>> Now ediff (as opposed to diff) comes up from "C-x v =" (C-x v = runs the
>> command vc-ediff) but other keys now dont work e.g
>>
>> ,----
>> | vc-register: Symbol's function definition is void: vc-admin
>> | Symbol's function definition is void: vc-admin
>> `----
>>
>> Has anyone used this stuff? Is there a full "package" of all related
>> files somewhere? It's like some giant jigsaw at the moment :-;
>
> This is my fault ;-).
>
> I wrote vc-.el, vc+.el, and vc-hooks+.el long, long ago. I doubt that they
> work well or even work at all with recent Emacs versions. I leave the code
> on the wiki in case it helps someone, but there are no guarantees associated
> with it.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Possibly a good idea to comment them as such? The copyright indicates
2007 so I assumed the code was maintained and working :(

>
> If I were you, I would try doing whatever you need to do without using those
> libraries. If you cannot do what you need, and if you see something in those
> libraries that looks like it might help, then you can try to adapt it for
> use with recent Emacs versions. Again, no guarantees of anything.

I'm not a lisp programmer.

I did find this:

http://xemacs.seanm.ca/lisp/vc-ediff.el