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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 21 Mar 1997 07:08:35 +0100
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> * Richard Mlynarik suggested the broken functions preceding-char and
>   following-char be made obsolete.
[...]
> -- preceding-char, following-char are obsolete and broken, do not
>    use them

Please, when you do this, make sure that there is at least a mention
of what should be used instead.  E.g.:

`following-char' is obsolete blah blah(...); use `(char-after (point))'
instead.

BTW, what should be used for `preceding-char'?  `(char-after (1- (point)))'
doesn't look satisfactory, somehow.


P.S.
In what way are they ({preceding,followin}-char) broken, other than
the infamous 0 lossage?

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