GNU bug report logs - #18388
24.4.50; REGRESSION: incompatible change to `replace-match-maybe-edit' (and no doc)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:30:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.50; REGRESSION: incompatible change to
 `replace-match-maybe-edit' (and no doc)
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 06:28:45 -0700 (PDT)

You added argument BACKWARD to this function, and you did not add it as
an &optional parameter.  This breaks all existing code that uses the
function.  The parameter should be &optional.

What's more, you did not even mention the new arg in the doc string.


In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-08-15 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 117706 rgm <at> gnu.org-20140815043406-p5hbu97cbm7pulcn
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 186 days ago.

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