bug#8855: Fix backported to Emacs 24

[Ken Brown]

On 11/22/2012 9:40 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> > On 11/22/2012 07:13 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > So how come the patch is not in emacs-24 yet?
> >
> > I understood Chong's comment to be about the trunk, not about
> > emacs-24.  The trunk was frozen at the time, if I recall, so his
> > permission would have been needed for the trunk.
>
> The emacs-24 branch hadn't even been created when I wrote that, so
> "commits to the trunk" at the time meant "code going into 24.3".
>
> Feel free to backport it now.

It would be good to get this done before tomorrow's release of 24.2.90. 
 Paul, is there still time to do it?

Ken