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bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value [PATCH]
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:22:06 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> I think this is one of those 'who could possibly be relying on this
> behaviour' bugs that bites you hard if you change things, so
> documentation is probably best.

Yup.  But this is very unusual behaviour for such a function, so even if
documented, it's going to cause confusion...

Has anybody grepped through the Emacs tree to see whether anybody uses
the parameter, and if so, whether it's expecting the wrong behaviour?

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