Re: Gnus fix: nnmail.el: nnmail-fix-eudora-headers regexp
>>>> "Mark" == Mark Thomas
<pgh_mthomas(a)yahoo.com> writes:
Mark> I'm not sure what the policy is for fixing bugs in "external"
Mark> packages.
Mark> I submitted the following to bugs(a)gnus.org. Should I submit the
Mark> following to xemacs-patches as well so you can fix
Mark> xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/nnmail.el until the upstream Gnus is fixed?
Mark> The problem is that the fifth argument to replace-match means
Mark> something very different in Emacs than in XEmacs.
> (replace-match NEWTEXT &optional FIXEDCASE LITERAL STRING
SUBEXP)
>
> The optional fifth argument SUBEXP specifies a subexpression of
> the match. It says to replace just that subexpression instead of
> the whole match. This is useful only after a regular expression
> search or match since only regular expressions have distinguished
> subexpressions.
This one's a touchy issue: There's a fix in 21.5 which should address
this issue. However, 21.4 and previous releases still have this
omission in the interface of replace-match.
So: it cannot hurt to submit a patch to xemacs-patches just to make
sure we catch the issue.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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