bug#16383: balance-windows fails in Emacs 24.3.50.1

[Steven Edwards]

GNU's git repo work, but doesn't recognize w3m.

Copying window.el* to my main installation didn't resolve the problem.
I'm going to swap out the lisp directories to see if that helps.

Best,

Steven

On 1/11/14, Steven Edwards <cureadvocate@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/11/14, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
>> I suppose you applied the changes but did not recompile/evaluate
>> window.el afterwards.  Even if you did, the changes won't be picked up
>> when you restart Emacs because you did not change the corresponding part
>> of the executable (you would have to "make" Emacs for that purpose).
>
> I did indeed recompile and evalute the buffer.  But as you say, no
> changes were seen, even after I restarted Emacs.
>
>> So simply take the patched code of `balance-windows-2' (for example, as
>> it is at the end of this mail), add it to your .emacs, and run it until
>> ...
>>
>>  > The Debian snapshot will
>>  > be updated soon, I hope.
>>
>> ... this happens.
>
> In time. :)
>
>>  > Thank you for letting me know it's fixed... that gives me something to
>>  > look forward to. :)
>>
>> Don't look forward, try now ;-)
>>
>> Thanks, martin
>
> Added and eval'd--no luck, even after a restart. :(
>
> I'm going to try compiling the version in the GNU git repository to
> see if it works.
>