Re: overlay.el bug, incompatable overlays-in

It's me FKtPp ;) writes: > A branch of test shows that GNU's overlays- function can accept any > integer as BIG or END parameter -_- [[ *sigh* I really detest that style of programming. No wonder the overlays emulation is deprecated. ]] > attachment is a changed overlay.el that with above 3 #'functions emulate > the GNU's behavior. Please submit it to XEmacs Patches as a patch against the Mercurial repository. It will get faster review that way, at least from me. You may also wish to put a copy on the tracker (this kind of thing will eventually be done automatically but that is not implemented yet).

I can tell you already that (1) the docstrings *need* to be amended to describe the DWIM behavior, and (2) I'm almost certainly going to ask that the normalization of arguments (null BUFFER -> current buffer, truncating bounds and reordering them) be refactored as a defsubst. Thanks!