From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el? Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:52:27 +0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330217580 8903 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2012 00:53:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:53:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 26 01:53:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S1SMF-0003YK-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:52:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1SMF-0005mZ-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:52:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1SM4-0005li-57 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1SLx-0007Xz-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:52:48 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S1SLx-0007Xq-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:52:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S1SLt-0003LA-29 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:52:37 +0100 Original-Received: from 222.130.141.183 ([222.130.141.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:52:37 +0100 Original-Received: from sdl.web by 222.130.141.183 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:52:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.130.141.183 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAMFBMVEUaFRZLMy1dTENxVzKQ WiCrXQ97cmO/dSqSh3akjGTApXy5sJ7Sxo/Sz8Xo6eP9//xJbkruAAAAAWJLR0QAiAUdSAAAAAlw SFlzAAACxQAAAsUBidZ/7wAAAAd0SU1FB9cBBwMJOwHXewoAAAIBSURBVCjPVdNBiNNAFADQ6J4F x3hThHZBBC+WCFI8SS0iezRDcMHLHkLAg6gJH/fgYQ9xYlj2sLK4KHgqCgXFhda2Idmr4kkQPZQ0 nkQMbTypbMmMM2m7ZgYSmMef/5OZPwo7HFnx3uKPcmj0Dht1LWZJ+Hvr7dIFZXRUwl9VRTuuKDJ+ U44gjscknK4hhJaCkYRsWjmBtLqXlJAG2wipNe18OZJu1BBq1E8xafl4s6Jq2mUZGftU1y7CCxnp FVUDWJXx4C66BKBnErbuoaYNtoRTu6EZBsCbMn7W+5qOAR6WvxNOby9jHWC9hAf3n304CdiAByXs 3Nh9roLDkyb/sWV712vYwaLSAn8CPMHIAAzOPDKP2COAFm4Y4ODVWc6xG7KXsN7UeUJjjimx2uwd gCgNhr0i8C/xyCD5CiCKAMY3Bf5oDzx//w/fimscdcAZU2jv9sedx6+nYPPFIoWI/GK6QZ+EFGOR ErAjCnV3vPZ7XqlTIMbOLY7fLcvvmT7rXNWaGDexIY44N12TG2PDp7vqyl57dnCeuWwyNpnEURxk fTbDYeBnKRn4oejPYI4sH6WviBumEZ/GxX4X/x6EcURFZ7E071bjQGAxpcOAEOJuTiroDEea5Szv rVWLYfl7ZiQwSUToxrkux7OLixAWGz22+HIyWTRYcVfomOwvzusfjtVIGgLHf3MAAAAASUVORK5C YII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (Mac OS X 10.6.8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n6JzZogHVzFdM9GGyDV9mmWuGBE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83862 Archived-At: 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