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Setup:

GUI version GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2015-07-25 on KAEL

Compiled from EmacsW64.

Direx, using the latest version of Direx from MELPA

Windows 7 x64 bit.

Situation:

I would like to try the package Direx, but the documentation is not very clear.When I installed Direx, I try to start it wih M-x Direx:jump-to-directory but I get a unclear message:

cl-call-next-method: cl-call-next-method only allowed inside primary and around methods

When googling around, I found this thread but it's difficult to understand how this error occured in a package. It's more related with common Lisp than the package itself, it seems.

When I tried again with the empty Emacs configuration (emacs -q), I still get the same message. It's unclear to me what I do need to solve this error, in order to get Direx working.

Direx is downloaded more than 10.000 times ,but I don't know how I could call Direx. The commands for Direx seems obfuscated to me. Seems I am the only one with this bug?

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

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    If you don't get an answer here, consider contacting the package author. (A priori, this sounds like a bug.) – Drew Oct 16 '15 at 19:25
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    It' s a bug in direx.el where the code calls cl-call-next-method inside an EIEIO method (they should either switch to a cl-generic method, or use EIEIO's call-next-method). – Stefan Oct 17 '15 at 17:02
  • You're getting the same bug? Direx is downloaded more than 10.000 times ,but I cannot activate Direx. Seems im the only one with this bug? – ReneFroger Oct 23 '15 at 20:08
  • It's a recent regression (for which I am responsible). I have opened a new pull request with the fix: github.com/m2ym/direx-el/pull/48. (I switched to cl-call-next-method in the wrong commit "switch to cl-lib" instead of in "use cl-defmethod, not for immediate merging".) – tarsius Oct 23 '15 at 21:08
  • Once that has been merged, you should probably delete this question, because I am not going to provide an answer to claim the extra 50 - that wouldn't seem right. – tarsius Oct 23 '15 at 21:11
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It seems it was a bug in Direx which was fixed by @tarsius, my thanks to him. So I consider this issue as being closed.

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