>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com>
writes:
[essentially by just deleting and replacing the changed section]. to work
properly in the case of coding systems, etc. you need to insert into
a temp buffer and do the compare. we don't actually implement this code
currently, but fsf does (but DO NOT TRY to copy their implementation,
you'll just cause more grief for yourself).
Damn! And I thought the main advantage of XEmacs was that they could
just take our code and run with it ;-(
Stefan
PS: admittedly, this part of the code is probably not too pretty.