Re: m4_text_box => AS_TEXT_BOX?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> m4_text_box is the sole user of quadrigraphs in m4sugar.m4.
> 
> Nope.  m4_text_wrap also uses it.

m4_text_wrap knows about quadrigraphs (via m4_qlen), but does not emit
them.  If the input has no quadrigraphs, *and does not use m4_text_box*,
the output is correct.

>>  I don't
>> care about m4_warn very much, but it would be nice to rename m4_text_box
>> to AS_TEXT_BOX and move it to m4sh.
> 
> It's not that easy.  There is already an AS_TEXT_BOX

No, that's AS_BOX.

>> Bison does not use it, and Google says it is unused:
> 
> Except that m4_text_wrap is heavily used (and even bison uses it).

I'm not proposing dropping Autom4te. :-)

Paolo