Re: xemacs user sees trouble with gnus-vis

[arius@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Peter Arius)]

>>>>> In article <199511292103.QAA03852@loiosh.kei.com>,
>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com> writes:

  KK> == Karl Kleinpaste <Karl_Kleinpaste@APHRODITE.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU> Is
  KK> anyone else out there familiar with the following failure mode under
  KK> xemacs?

  KK> The error raised is: wrong type argument, bufferp, ">>"

  KK> set-text-properties(0 2 nil ">>")

  Christopher> Known bug in the text-properties compatibility stuff shipped
  Christopher> in 19.13.

  Christopher> Change lisp/utils/text-props.el and re-byte-compile.

  Christopher> [patch deleted]

Sorry Christopher, but that version is broken, too (as I have already
reported to the XEmacs newsgroup). Please use

(defun set-text-properties (start end props &optional buffer)
  "You should NEVER use this function.  It is ideologically blasphemous.
It is provided only to ease porting of broken FSF Emacs programs."
  (if (stringp buffer)
      nil
    (map-extents #'(lambda (extent ignored)
		     (remove-text-properties start end
					     (list (extent-property extent
								    'text-prop)
						   nil)
					     buffer))
		 buffer start end nil nil 'text-prop)
    (add-text-properties start end props buffer)))


which will probably go into XEmacs 19.14, according to a note from Ben Wing.

Cheers,
	Peter


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