Obsolete rfc2047-quote-special-characters-in-quoted-strings (bug#38200)

* lisp/mail/rfc2047.el
(rfc2047-quote-special-characters-in-quoted-strings): Make obsolete
instead of removing it.

diff --git a/lisp/mail/rfc2047.el b/lisp/mail/rfc2047.el
index 8229bebfd67914680b0f7cb57f1692757f3d0ead..d8511d4e3945910d17bc2d2b7faec1c740c95bdf 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/mail/rfc2047.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rfc2047.el
@@ -184,6 +184,56 @@ This is either `base64' or `quoted-printable'."
       (re-search-forward ":[ \t\n]*" nil t)
       (buffer-substring-no-properties (point) (point-max)))))
 
+(make-obsolete 'rfc2047-quote-special-characters-in-quoted-strings nil "27.1")
+(defun rfc2047-quote-special-characters-in-quoted-strings (&optional
+                                                          encodable-regexp)
+  "Quote special characters with `\\'s in quoted strings.
+Quoting will not be done in a quoted string if it contains characters
+matching ENCODABLE-REGEXP or it is within parentheses."
+  (goto-char (point-min))
+  (let ((tspecials (concat "[" ietf-drums-tspecials "]"))
+       (start (point))
+       beg end)
+    (with-syntax-table (standard-syntax-table)
+      (while (not (eobp))
+       (if (ignore-errors
+             (forward-list 1)
+             (eq (char-before) ?\)))
+           (forward-list -1)
+         (goto-char (point-max)))
+       (save-restriction
+         (narrow-to-region start (point))
+         (goto-char start)
+         (while (search-forward "\"" nil t)
+           (setq beg (match-beginning 0))
+           (unless (eq (char-before beg) ?\\)
+             (goto-char beg)
+             (setq beg (1+ beg))
+             (condition-case nil
+                 (progn
+                   (forward-sexp)
+                   (setq end (1- (point)))
+                   (goto-char beg)
+                   (if (and encodable-regexp
+                            (re-search-forward encodable-regexp end t))
+                       (goto-char (1+ end))
+                     (save-restriction
+                       (narrow-to-region beg end)
+                       (while (re-search-forward tspecials nil 'move)
+                         (if (eq (char-before) ?\\)
+                             (if (looking-at tspecials) ;; Already quoted.
+                                 (forward-char)
+                               (insert "\\"))
+                           (goto-char (match-beginning 0))
+                           (insert "\\")
+                           (forward-char))))
+                     (forward-char)))
+               (error
+                (goto-char beg)))))
+         (goto-char (point-max)))
+       (forward-list 1)
+       (setq start (point))))))
+
 (defvar rfc2047-encoding-type 'address-mime
   "The type of encoding done by `rfc2047-encode-region'.
 This should be dynamically bound around calls to