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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: overlay.el broken in 19.15
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William M. Perry writes:
 > VM and GNUS both break in a stock 19.15 installation.  VM stacktrace below
 > - this was with trying to send a mime message.  GNUS dies with a similar
 > 'wrong-type-argument(overlayp nil) message in gnus-kill-all-overlays.
 > 
 > This is bad bad bad.  This is because of this code:
 > 
 > (if (fboundp 'overlay-get)
 >     (fset 'vm-extent-property 'overlay-get)
 >   (fset 'vm-extent-property 'extent-property))
 > 
 > Which should do the right thing.  I guess the overlay code isn't quite
 > ready for prime time yet.

I think VM is at fault in this case.  It appears to be calling
overlay-get with something that wasn't created by make-overlay.
This mixing of interfaces is wrong.

