21.5.33, specifier.c and the x-symbol patch

Hello The doc string for MATCHSPC reads. /* MATCHSPEC is backward-incompatible with code written to 21.4's API. So far such code has been seen only in x-symbol-mule.el, and that was addressed by a change `face-property-matching-instance'. See tracker issue752 for a more general patch against 21.5.29. */ This is not my experience. The change for face-property-matching-instance is *not* sufficient to make x-symbol work for the 21.5.X series. Only the patch mentioned, does it. This patch has a small inconvenience when using the menu to set the font faces, the following error occurs: which I attach below. I merge the patch so far successful in every version >29 (some minutes ago in 21.5.33) But is there now other way to make x-symbol work? I understand that the inconvenience of the patch makes it unlikely to be included in the official branch, but maybe there are other solutions? Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta