In trying to use the mail archive of the xemacs-patches list, I have
stumbled again upon the fact that the files from the archive can not
be applied as-is.  For example, Olivier's patch:
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200206/msg00175.html
Has the following HTML in it:
<PRE>
It was only a matter of fiddling with the includes.
I can't commit, I didn't take the time to try to find out what is
wrong.
  OG.
2002-06-27  Olivier Galibert  &lt;galibert(a)pobox.com&gt;
	* input-method-motif.c: Fix the #includes.
</PRE>
<PRE>
Index: input-method-motif.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/input-method-motif.c,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 input-method-motif.c
--- input-method-motif.c	2002/03/13 08:52:48	1.13
+++ input-method-motif.c	2002/06/27 20:02:11
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
 #include <config.h>
 #include <X11/Xlocale.h>        /* More portable than
<locale.h> ? */
 #include "lisp.h"
-#include "console-x.h"
+#include "frame-impl.h"
+#include "console-x-impl.h"
 #include "device.h"
 #include "frame.h"
 #include "EmacsFrame.h"
</PRE>
All those "<", ">", and """ need to
be untranslated in
order to apply the patch.  But since the whole thing is bound between
a <PRE> - </PRE> pair, those htmlizations are not necessary, right?
So I have 2 questions:
  1. Can we fix whatever it is that makes the 
list-archive.xemacs.org
     entries so that it doesn't htmlize the actual patches?
  2. Is there an easy way to un-htmlize a file?
Thanks,
  Vin