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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bogus patch to sendmail.el in beta1 reversal
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Steven L Baur writes:
 > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
 > 
 > > Both versions of mail-position-on-field are broken.
 > > Here's a version that should quiet TM and Noah.
 > 
 > > 		 (insert field ": \n")
 > > 		 (forward-char -1)))
 > 
 > That looks better.  In this context, what is the difference between
 > the (forward-char -1) and (skip-chars-backward "\n")?

None.

The only reason for the old skip-chars-backward that I can think
of is that, if the user has inserted blank lines at the end of
the header section of the message, mail-position-on-field would
skip over them.  It won't do that anymore.

