bug#1948: confusion and bug in dabbrev.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> I think I've got a fix for this.
>
> The problem is that dabbrev--substitute-expansion alters EXPANSION
> before using it in the substitution, but dabbrev-expand has no idea that
> it's done this, so it assumes the unaltered EXPANSION is still valid and
> saves it.
>
> The patch makes dabbrev--substitute-expansion return EXPANSION, and
> dabbrev-expand saves that version instead.
>
> I considered making a new function to remove the whitespace and using it
> in both dabbrev-expand and dabbrev--substitute-expansion, but returning
> the value actually used strikes me as safer, in case anything else is
> done to it.

If I understand the code correctly, this looks like a good fix to me.
Could you resubmit it with the test case you sent earlier as one patch?

Also I see that we have a copyright disclaimer on file for your work.
Is that sufficient to accept code into Emacs?  (I'm asking the other
Emacs hackers here...)

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