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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (emacs21 with tag fixed-upstream)
has caused the Debian Bug report #376041,
regarding emacs21: M-x occur with regexp "^[^#]" fails with "Args out of
range:".
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Package: emacs21
Version: 21.4a-1
Severity: normal
I wanted to show the non-comment lines in a config file I was editing,
so I tried to use the M-x occur (a.k.a. list-matching-lines) command
with the regexp "^[^#]" (without the quotes). This failed with "Args
out of range: NUMBER NUMBER". It turns out that the [^#] fragment
also matches the newline character, which I was not expecting, since
the documentation for the "occur" command says "Display a list showing
each *line* in the buffer that contains a match..." (my emphasis).
The current behaviour is not useful, inconsistent with documentation,
and an nuisance to the use of the command. I consider it a bug; in my
opinion it should be changed to not match the newline character.
/Teddy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management
ii libtiff4 3.7.2-5 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libungif4g 4.1.3-2sarge1 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-8 Xaw3d widget set
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
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--- Begin Message ---
Hello,
Thanks for your interest in improving Debian, and sorry that the bugs
were not fully resolved or closed in due time.
emacs21 packages have been removed from testing in 2009 [1], not
present even in the current stable. Consequently, these bugs are now
orphan (without maintainer assigned) so they probably will not be
attended/noticed further.
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emacs21.html
The bugs deemed valid are going to be verified and reassigned, but the
current bugs that I'm closing now are very ancient (more than 10 years
sometimes) and marked as fixed-upstream years ago, with no recent
input, and are supposed to be fixed in emacs22 at the latest.
Please comment if you want think that some of the raised questions are
still pending and need to be addressed differently (e.g., reassigned
to other packages, etc.).
Cheers.
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