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replace-regexp missing some matches

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: daniel.lopez999 <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, 34525 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34525: replace-regexp missing some matches
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 20:07:50 +0200

> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:31:32 +0000
> Cc: monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, daniel.lopez999 <at> gmail.com, 34525 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> 
> > next_interval and previous_interval are used extensively, so I'm
> > having hard time believing that they have such a blatant bug.
> 
> Yes, how come we haven't seen many more consequences?
> 
> Maybe syntax-table text properties aren't as widely used as all that.

I actually had the text properties in mind.  They are used all over
the place.  Faces are a feature that would make any such bugs
immediately visible.

> I'm guessing this fix will be deemed too unsafe to make it into the
> emacs-26 release branch.  ;-(

That goes without saying.

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