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Re: What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el?


From: Leo
Subject: Re: What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el?
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:52:27 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (Mac OS X 10.6.8)

On 2012-02-26 08:09 +0800, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> I've stumbled upon the functions (un)underline-region and I was
> wondering what they were used for. Obviously they were supposed to
> (un)underline but they do it in a weird way. Basically,
> underline-region adds "_\b" before every character in the region where
> \b is ^H aka ascii backspace.
>
> Is this some legacy code that should be removed?

There are some bits of elisp code in Emacs that are useless. I have
never heard of this underline.el and never used it. Feel free to open a
bug to remove it.

Leo




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