Re: m4sh -- BINSH diversion cannot be cleared

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/18/22 00:34, Roger Crew wrote:
> I'm guessing the next release is intended to be 2.73?

Yes.

> Also, renumbering the m4sh diversions might be worth
> mentioning in NEWS

Sure, done in the attached. Though things are messed up here, as the 
manual's Text processing Macros node suggests m4_divert([0]) in a place 
where a named diversion wouldn't work, and tests/m4sugar.at tests that. 
Can you think of a good fix for this?
0001-Mention-latest-change-in-NEWS.patch (text/x-patch, 679 B)
From 55dfa2377602e743d00b726344422acc3116d859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 11:52:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Mention latest change in NEWS

---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1e6a978b..81ebc3cb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
 
 *** AC_SYS_LARGEFILE now arranges for 64-bit time_t if possible.
 
+*** m4sh diversions like BINSH have been renumbered.
+  This matters only for uses that, contrary to the documentation
+  and despite warnings, use m4_divert with numbered diversions.
+
 
 ** New features
 
-- 
2.37.3
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