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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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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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"They are my innards! I will not have them misread by a poseur!"


  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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