Re: [ELPA] Add compat.el

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 09:59:45 +0000
>> 
>> > This is a gray area of regexp matching, and it keeps constantly
>> > changing in Emacs under the hood.  The changes are generally seen as
>> > "bugfixes" (though IMNSHO they aren't), and so they aren't called out
>> > in NEWS.  And what would you say there about such subtle changes,
>> > anyway?  So no one should expect it to work the same in different
>> > versions of Emacs.
>> 
>> True, but my concern here is to provide older versions of Emacs with the
>> same behaviour (for these newer functions, like string-search and
>> string-replace), so I do have to take it into consideration.
>
> That's fine, but you seem to be asking why the change and whether it's
> "right".  I'm saying that you just need to accept that this is how
> things are, and if the compatibility package needs to account for
> that, so be it.

Oh no, I wasn't questioning the current behaviour, I just wanted to know
what changed internally, to better understand what was going on.

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic