GNU bug report logs - #4209
23.1; Emacs 23.1 regression in re-search-forward

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Christopher J. Madsen" <cjm <at> cjmweb.net>

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:35:06 UTC

Severity: serious

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: 4209 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
Subject: bug#4209: 23.1; Emacs 23.1 regression in re-search-forward
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:01:55 -0500

> So, in emacs-unicode branch, I fixed the regex code so that
> unibyte pattern can be directry used for multibyte buffer
> search by doing unibyte->multibyte conversion on the fly.
> And that code was merged to trunk.

Hmm... that's too bad since the subsequent change to get rid of the
dependency on locales made this change unnecessary.

But given this, yes, the patch looks right, and no, I have no idea what
the CHAR_BYTE8_P test was trying to do.


        Stefan
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