Re: [Fabrice Popineau] Re: Need some bug/version info

Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

> * Ralf Angeli (2005-02-06) writes:
>
>> By implementing some brute force changes in my local font-latex.el I
>> already managed to make XEmacs fontify verbatim environments.
>> Verbatim commands are not working yet.
>
> The latter is, by the way, fallout from the bug related to shy groups
> in regular expressions in XEmacs 21.4.16.  The following code will
> fail, i.e. return nil, in that XEmacs version but should work in
> 21.4.17 (at least it does in my checkout of the release-21-4 branch):
>
> (with-temp-buffer
>   (insert "\\verb|foo|")
>   (goto-char (point-min))
>   (re-search-forward "\\\\\\(?:verb\\)\\([^a-z]\\).*?\\(\\1\\)" nil
>   t))

Good to hear.  The XEmacs front page still advocates XEmacs 21.4.16,
there is no announcement or README for 21.4.17, but at the download
location, 21.4.16 has been withdrawn and 21.4.17 is available already.

In totally unrelated news, on the GNU ftp server an Emacs 21.4 tarball
has been placed, differing only in a security fix in movemail from
21.3.  No announcements or discussions whatsoever are connected with
that, and I have asked Richard on the Emacs-devel list to _please_
rename this to 21.3b or something before it spreads out.  I have
little hope of this succeeding, however, so every talk about what 21.4
is supposed to be or become is most likely _again_ fit for the junk
yard.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum