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Re: Trimming strings, /emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el modification


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Trimming strings, /emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el modification
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 20:45:14 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Since what I propose is consistant with the existing code, not agreeing with
> that means *first* finding the bug that Johan mentioned (which is not
> directly related to my modification), starting a review process of the whole
> code base that uses subr.el/split-string (and maybe other places where that
> regexp bug happens), fixing the code to ensure some kind of backward
> compatibility, etc. and *then* applying my change to subr-x...

I'm pretty sure surrounding the regexp in \(?:..\) will break no code at
all.  To me it's an absolute no-brainer that doesn't even merit any discussion.


        Stefan



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