Re: [BUG] derived-mode-merge-syntax-tables bugs out in Gnus/Message

Jerry> Listening, yes, but unable to do much more than that right Jerry> now. While I touched that code last, CVS shows that this Jerry> is the change that introduced the code Hrvoje is talking Jerry> about: Jerry> 2003-07-18 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; Jerry> * derived.el (derived-mode-merge-syntax-tables): Jerry> Reverse map logic. Fixes "do-nothing" bug. Something is seriously broken here. That patch was never supposed to be applied to 21.4 (there is no trouble-making default member in the representation of 21.4's char-tables), and there's no record of it being applied to 21.4. Furthermore, CVS thinks that the 21.4 and 21.5 versions are supposed to be identical, and annotates them identically (as in fact they are in my workspaces). Is that your doing, Jerry, or is it CVS screwage, or something broken in my workspaces? I can't convince CVS to show me that change separately in the 21.4 line, how did you find it? (If you did it inadvertantly, no big deal, but if CVS is jerking us around ...! <shiver>) Anyway, reverting that patch (in 21.4 only!) should solve Hrvoje's problem, and possibly a number of other weirdo bugs related to syntax tables. It would be a good idea to carefully review the rest of that file for potential screwage from 21.4/21.5 implementation quirks. My patch was wrong in the context of 21.5, as well, but it's going to take more time to figure out how to solve _that_, as a quick look suggests the necessary Lisp API isn't available. Vin: I'll post a patch for 21.4 separately. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.