From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el?
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:52:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m162eu5sc4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+5B0FMyBfx7FDsFhj=_M-K+EpZu51VtGfuGHKcDEQ0VmGwwfw@mail.gmail.com
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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2012-02-26 0:09 What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el? Aurélien Aptel
2012-02-26 0:45 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-26 0:52 ` Leo [this message]
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