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[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl at sdm.de> writes:

    Klaus> So: Why not moving the libs timer.el and thingatpt.el to
    Klaus> another XEmacs-package?

I agree about timer.el; APIs like run-at-time are going to be
developed over and over if we don't provide them.  By the same token
they should be robust and compatible.  thingatpt is more complicated:

;;; thing.el --- find language-specific contiguous pieces of text

;; #### FSF has thingatpt.el, which does the same thing.  Should merge
;; or toss this.

;; I wish.  The howls of pain every time I try are too overwhelming. -slb

(thing is in the xemacs-base package.)  The principle is the same, of
course, but apparently the practice is different.  If we're serious
about eliminating fsf-compat, it's time to try the merge again.

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