syntax table behavior in XEmacs 21.4 and 21.5 (was: XEmacs 21.5 and Gnus fancy splitting.)

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Oct 03 2005, Steve Youngs wrote:

> * Steve Youngs <steve at sxemacs.org> writes:
>
> * Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp at xemacs.org> writes:
>   > Yes, I have seen this before, or at least something very similar.  Try
>   > compiling Gnus with your 21.5, then it should DTRT for both 21.5 and
>   > 21.4.
>
>   > I'll try to find the details in the ding archives of what is going
>   > on.  ATM, the only thing I can remember is that Katsumi Yamaoka
>   > <yamaoka at jpl.org> knows about it. :-)
>
> Malcolm, start here...
>
> http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200403/msg00010.html

[ Or:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56459
  And an earlier report by Wes Hardaker
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56414 ]

Katsumi Yamaoka provided this test case:

$ cat _xemacs_syntax_table_.el 
(message "`%s'"
         (with-temp-buffer
           (require 'mml)
           (insert "disposition=attachment")
           (goto-char (point-min))
           (with-syntax-table mml-syntax-table
             (forward-sexp 1)
             (buffer-substring (point) (point-max)))))

XEmacs 21.4.15 "Security Through Obscurity"
$ xemacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l _xemacs_syntax_table_.el -kill

`'


With XEmacs 21.5-b18 "chestnut":
$ xemacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l _xemacs_syntax_table_.el -kill
`=attachment'


Bye, Reiner.

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