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>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Mason <dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca> writes:

Dave> I just started trying to use a new mode (caml-mode).  It does an
Dave> awful hack (which it documents as such) to change the
Dave> syntax-entry for _ before doing a looking-at.

Dave> XEmacs (19.14 -- someday I'm *not* going to be swamped, honest)
Dave> does a string-match in modify-syntax-entry which (I presume, or
Dave> this code would never have worked) FSF Emacs doesn't.  This
Dave> makes for an ugly incompatibility.  (Of course fixing it means
Dave> putting a match-data and store-match-data in
Dave> modify-syntax-entry, which may well be worse than the disease!)

syntax.el in current 19.15 is unchanged from 19.14, so presumably it
still has all the difficulties you describe.  syntax.el in 20.0 has
been ``significantly hacked on by Ben Wing'', and varies
considerably.  Comments Ben?

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