Re: Bug in cperl-mode.el - unexpanded CVS keyword

Mats Lidell writes: I doubt that XEmacs has introduced many such keywords, but a lot of upstream projects used them. Also, RMS hates them, so core Emacs people generally avoid them. They mostly show up in 3rd party libraries written by people who have real customers in their day jobs, unlike RMS who needs to please only himself. CVS defaults to expanding them, so upstream can get a pretty good idea of which version users have (of course there may be downstream/user mods). Because it defaults to automatic expansion, we never notice unless upstream complains that we've checked into our CVS and they're getting uninterpretable bug reports with our version numbers, not theirs. The problem when you switch to a different VCS is that the format of expanded keywords changes, breaking regexps etc used to capture the version number. You'll typically get the same kind of bug that Vin observed. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta