Re: FYI: 23-gary-doc-typos.patch

[Akim Demaille]

 > -The builtin macro @code{regexp} is recognized only when given arguments.
 > +The builtin macro @code{eregexp} is recognized only when given arguments.

Hi gary,

I would to hold the release of these macros, or to fix them asap: they
ought to return their argument *quoted*.  Actually, most m4 macros are
broken by design and should be duplicated with their quoting
equivalent.

For instance:

~/src/ace % cat /tmp/foo.m4                                      nostromo 16:09
define(`foo', `bar')
patsubst(`Foo', `F', `f')
~/src/ace % m4 /tmp/foo.m4                                       nostromo 16:09

bar


should display foo instead.  So I'd like to have epatsubst, eregexp
etc. return a quoted result.