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Subject: Re: [patch] psgml fixes
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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 1997 13:17:18 -0700
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of "Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:52:29 -0400 (EDT)"
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> Karl M. Hegbloom writes:
>  > 
>  >  This should be applied AFTER Steve's last patch.  I grepped all the
>  > files for following-char, and then just did a
>  > 
>  >   {M-% (following-char) RET (char-after (point)) RET}
> 
> This is exactly the kind of code change that I am unhappy about.
> The changes have nothing to do with real Ebola lossage, but
> rather with Ebola warnings.  So if the warning are wrong we
> should be fixing the warnings, not screwing with working code.

And blind replacement of this nature can break code which was depending
on the peculiar return values of following-char.

Clearly any occurance of the form (eq (following-char) \?X) can be
replaced, but some others might require some closer looking.

