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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > We can implement XEmacs `buffer-string' like this, but that's
> > monstrosity:
> 
> If it makes any difference
> 
> $ grep -n "(buffer-string" */*.el | grep -v "buffer-string)"
> 
> in xemacs-packages/lisp results in:
[...]

We cannot really know how many people are using `buffer-string' in
their code.  Fortunately, it is possible to make the function backward
compatible, but I, for one, will not bother sending out the patch; I'm 
way too disgusted.

As strange as it may sound, XEmacs has a user-base of its own, and
IMHO we cannot afford to change documented interfaces on Stallman's
whims, at least not in areas where XEmacs implemented stuff before FSF
Emacs.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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