From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [XEmacs-20.3/Gnus] invalid regexp in nndoc.el
Date: 06 Dec 1997 00:28:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigen3r74kk.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Michael R Cook's message of "05 Dec 1997 18:24:40 -0500"
Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com> writes:
> Further, the only uses of these pcbpu constructs that I've see were
> actually mistakes, like this "\*\*\* EOOH \*\*\*" problem. (So,
> there's an advantage to rejecting them.)
>
> Finally, if we reject constructs like "a**" now, we can more easily
> give them useful semantics in the future.
>
> So, that's why.
Sounds reasonable. Did Stallman accept the patch, BTW?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-05 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-05 22:46 Danny Siu
1997-12-05 22:52 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-12-05 23:24 ` Michael R Cook
1997-12-05 23:28 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1997-12-05 23:40 ` Michael R Cook
1997-12-08 17:35 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-12-08 17:41 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-12-08 17:55 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-12-08 18:14 ` Richard Coleman
1997-12-08 18:24 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-12-09 8:46 ` Steinar Bang
1997-12-14 21:50 ` SL Baur
1997-12-08 18:28 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-12-08 19:20 ` Emacs vs Xemacs (was: Re: [XEmacs-20.3/Gnus] invalid regexp in nndoc.el) Per Abrahamsen
1997-12-09 15:19 ` [XEmacs-20.3/Gnus] invalid regexp in nndoc.el Hrvoje Niksic
1997-12-05 23:29 ` Danny Siu
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