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Larry Auton <lda@control.att.com> writes:

> I am running xemacs-20.1-b11 on a Linux 2.0.29 host.  At first I
> thought that the following behavior was an error.  After reading it,
> I'm not so sure anymore.  If the behavior is correct, it's certainly
> confusing at the least:

It's a feature, and it has been that way for years -- since (at least)
19.12.

It's a good thing your example wasn't (:-))
C-h v obarray
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