Re: [PATCH] Permit the use of regular expression match and replace in posting styles.

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:47:58 -0700 Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer@xemacs.org> wrote: 

MK> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Thu,  2 Sep 2010 21:50:50 +0200 Daniel Dehennin <daniel.dehennin@baby-gnu.org> wrote: 
>> 
DD> * lisp/gnus-msg.el (gnus-configure-posting-styles): Use
DD> match-substitute-replacement to replace positional parameters in
DD> attributes.
>> 
>> Is there an XEmacs user that can help with the cloning and testing
>> `match-substitute-replacement' when it's not available in ELisp?  It
>> should be pretty easy; we already do such cloning in a few places.  See
>> my previous e-mail: this is a tiny function.

MK> If you haven't already gotten a volunteer, I guess I can help.  But I'm
MK> unclear on what sort of testing you'd like.

We need you to find out how to make `match-substitute-replacement' work
in XEmacs, basically.  If you need to copy what it does (the full
function was posted already) that's fine, but it's better if we can use
XEmacs's builtins.

Ted