>>>> "jpw" == John Paul Wallington
<jpw(a)shootybangbang.com> writes:
| ;; by "William G. Dubuque"
<wgd(a)zurich.ai.mit.edu> w/ mods from Stig
jpw> I'm not sure why the XEmacs version dorks about doing:
Note the "mods from Stig". Stig Hackvan nee Jonathan Stigelman is an
occasionally brilliant, more usually flaky, XEmacs hacker. He hasn't
done much in years. Anything flagged with a comment from Stig should
be considered warily. It's often worthwhile to figure out why he
dorks around, but it's no surprise if you never do figure it out. :-)
jpw> Also, the GNU version will only return what was printed to
jpw> `standard-output'; BODY can still modify the current buffer,
jpw> which seems neat.
Leaking temp buffers sucks. I won't promise to put this in 21.4, but
if the compatibility package doesn't get off the ground quickly, I'll
give a patch synching to GNU very strong consideration. Please test
in 21.5 first.
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