[Bug: 21.5-b28] Could you please turn on `RE_CHAR_CLASSES' for XEmacs?

[Steve Youngs]

* It's me FKtPp ;) <m_pupil at yahoo.com.cn> writes:

  > Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
  >> In search.c, line 179 (or so), just change "RE_SYNTAX_EMACS" to
  >> "RE_SYNTAX_EMACS | RE_CHAR_CLASSES".  Rebuild.  Please let us know how
  >> it works out.

  > Good news~~ The recompiled XEmacs binary works! And if I make change in
  > regex.h It works also!

  >> AFAIK this only will work as expected for ASCII files and search
  >> expressions.  In a Mule build there are likely to be crashes.  For
  >> those reasons, I would not expect this to appear in the mainline
  >> without a lot of work.  Definitely we will need testing.

We enabled character classes in SXEmacs 22.1.8 (Mule is enable by
default in SXEmacs), so far no related crashes.  Steve, if you can give
me some hairy test cases, I'll be happy to let you know how SXEmacs
stands up to it.

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