From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!kimbo
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Title: Bugs in Gosling's
Article-I.D.: nbires.144
Posted: Wed Apr 27 22:26:47 1983
Received: Fri Apr 29 21:07:07 1983

I hope this is not a comercial use of the net but...
If I'm going to have to pay for my emacs, I'd like to get rid of a few
of my pet bugs, namely:
1) If an abbreviation is expanded inside a save-excursion (with dot at
   the end of the abbreviation before expansion) dot is left at the
   beginning of the expansion.  E.g. abrv => abbreviation
					 ^   ^
   where the carats represent the cursor's position.
2) Why doesn't save-excursion also save the current regular expression.
   Without this (or some other mechanism), you can't write mlisp that
   uses looking-at unless you also write your own interface to the
   regular expression operations that remembers what the user's last
   re was.
3) Why no looking-at-reverse?  Is this related to...
4) Reverse regular expressions seem to be full of bugs.
Finally, does it do any good to list bugs here?  Is anyone listening?

		Kimbo B. Peebles-Mundy, NBI Inc.
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