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From: karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
Date: 16 Jun 1997 13:48:53 -0700
In-Reply-To: David Moore's message of "16 Jun 1997 13:17:18 -0700"
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>>>>> "David" == David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu> writes:

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

 That is what I learned when I tried to run VM after
macro-M-%-patching.

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

 Yes.  (= char ?x) ==> Error if (eq char nil).

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