Re: copy-sequence no longer copies rings

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 10/23/07, Michael Kifer <address@hidden> wrote:

> Now that I am thinking about it, I probably have not used that
> feature for 1 year or so, but it must have been possible to copy rings
> using copy-sequence around summer '06.

If it was possible, it surely was by accident. As Martin and I have
pointed out, copy-sequence has not copied rings since 20.7 all the way
to the current trunk.

> In viper there are statements of the form
>
> (copy-sequence viper-command-ring)
>
> where viper-command-ring is a ring. They've been working for about 10
> years, but now they do not.

Hmm... In emulation/viper-cmd.el there are two such statements, but
they were introduced by you on 2007-06-12. They were `copy-list'
previously:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/emulation/viper-cmd.el?r1=1.60&r2=1.61&pathrev=MAIN

             Juanma