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Subject: Re: kotl-mode broken in Hyperbole distributed with XEmacs 20.1-b3
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From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Date: 28 Feb 1997 20:51:20 +0100
In-Reply-To: Bob Weiner's message of Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:49:04 -0800
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>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Weiner <weiner@infodock.com> writes:

>>>>> "MS" == Michael Sperber [Mr Preprocessor] <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

MS> The following patch was submitted several times (originally by Mats
MS> Lidell, I believe).  Without it, kotl-mode does not work on XEmacs.

Bob> Well all I can say is that it used to work in earlier versions of XEmacs, so
Bob> that makes me think someone broke the compatibility of the get-text-property
Bob> function with the FSF functionality.  I'll put the patch in after testing
Bob> but I'd prefer that someone explain precisely what happens and why the
Bob> get-text-property call is now wrong.

This patch *was* in 19.14, which is why things worked there, and which
is why things broke when the new Hyperbole was put in.  It was
definitely required for 19.14.  I don't remember anyone complaining
about it ...  (I think Mats couldn't explain it at the time either.)

Cheers =8-} Mike

