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Subject: Re: Missing function 'gnus-get-text-property-excluding-characters-with-faces' using gnus from git
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On Fri, Aug 08 2014, Alan Schmitt wrote:

> On 2014-08-07 20:47, Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> writes:
[...]
>> M-: (while (not (or (eobp) (featurep 'gnus-util)))
>>   (eval (read (current-buffer))))
[...]
> Thank you for this very nice trick!

For the record, the (eobp) test is bogus because trailing whitespace or
comments will cause an end-of-file error if the featurep test never
returns t. So, for our diagnostic purposes, it's best to just omit the
(eobp).

Oh, and it is not a trick ;-)

Wolfgang