Re: Minimum emacs version for Oort

[Paul Stevenson <p.stevenson@surrey.ac.uk>]

S Josefsson writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>
>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>>>
>>>> The base64.el there does not have base64-encode-string, so that
>>>> won't help.  >> >>  Oops.  Paul, does the following patch work?
>>
>> I'm not sure if Emacs 20.3 already has base64 support in C code.
>
> Perhaps only elisp.  MIME etc needs some kind of base64 support. Paul,
> which functions does C-h f base64 TAB TAB expand to?


base64-decode			   base64-decode-region
base64-decode-string		   base64-encode
base64-encode-region		   base64-encode-string
base64-insert-char		   base64-run-command-on-region
base64-xemacs-insert-char

Aha! They come from ~/emacs/tramp/lisp

perhaps I should change the ordering of my load-path


> But now that I actually look in contrib/base64.el my copy do have
> b-{d,e}-string.  So it would work as a workaround.  Does your copy
> differ?
>

no, mine has that too.

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