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Supercite sc-setup-filladapt accesses void variable filladapt-prefix-table (from Filladapt)

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>, kyle_jones <at> wonderworks.com, bwarsaw <at> python.org
Cc: 74970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74970: Supercite sc-setup-filladapt accesses void variable filladapt-prefix-table (from Filladapt)
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:34:06 +0200

Ping! Barry and Kyle, could you please chime in?

> Cc: Kyle E. Jones <kyle_jones <at> wonderworks.com>,
>  Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw <at> python.org>
> From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor <at> posteo.de>
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:22:56 +0000
> 
> (Supercite is a built-in package and Filladapt is on GNU Elpa.) 
> Supercite's manual [1] states that one can install Filladapt and 
> call the `sc-setup-filladapt' function.  But calling 
> `sc-setup-filladapt' will result in the error (void-variable 
> filladapt-prefix-table).
> 
> It seems like Filladapt has renamed that variable from 
> "filladapt-prefix-table" to "filladapt-token-table".  I only found 
> one very old version of Filladapt [2] where the old name is used.
> 
> Apparently, the variable has not only been renamed but the logic 
> of has changed quite a bit.  For example, filladapt-prefix-table 
> had the format ((REGXP . FUNCTION) ...) while 
> filladapt-token-table has the format ((REGEXP SYM) ...).
> 
> I'm CCing the authors of both packages.
> 
> [1] (info "(sc) Filling Cited Text")
> 
> [2] https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/EXPORT/elisp/JUNK/mandel-disabled/filladapt.el
> 
> 
> 
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