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>>>>> "michael" == Michael Kifer <kifer@CS.SunySB.EDU> writes:

>> I also *will* debug Steve's problem.  It's merely that that last mail
>> is the first concrete account of the problem, and a description of how
>> to reproduce it.  I have not seen it yet (despite debugging code and
>> using Gnus all the time), and therefore had *no way* of addressing the
>> problem until Steve's mail.

michael> I thought I sent two concrete examples...

Yes, but two different problem reports.  I could reproduce the arg
count error (and I just sent a fix for that) but couldn't reproduce
the eval depth exceeded report.

michael> I first reported this on Feb 13. The problem is that this makes dired-like
michael> functionality unusable to all Viper users. (And Viper is key to the emacs
michael> strategy to take over the world :-)

Note also that default-dir (part of EFS) already seems to do exactly
what you're trying to do with the find-file defadvice.  This doesn't
mean I'm trying to duck fixing any problems connected to that.

Cheers =8-} Mike

