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Barry A Warsaw <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US> writes:

>>>>>> "WMP" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

WMP> All your functions that currently use those functions think
WMP> they hit EOB when they see an embedded NULL in a buffer
WMP> anyway, so I think its a win. :)

> Yeah, that's what I thought, except the suck part is

> 1. Emacs 19.34 doesn't have char-before

But Emacs 19.35/20.1 does.

> 2. Emacs 19.34 and 19.34.94 char-before and char-after take exactly
>    one required argument

> 3. XEmacs 19 & 20 char-before and char-after take two optional
>    arguments.

You may safely ignore the second optional argument.

> 4. I have 73 occurances I have to change :-(

You almost sound like you're about to edit the files with a wimpy
editor :-).  I'll help you out and send you patches if you wish ...

There are 980 occurrences in the current 20.3-beta6 source tree, btw.

> Okay, it's a workable problem, but it just blows.  ;-}

But you can then sleep better at night knowing that you've Done The
Right Thing. :-)
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