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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Cc: mvoteiza@udel.edu, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Johan Bockgård" <bojohan@gnu.org>,
	tino.calancha@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Trimming strings, /emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el modification
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 14:05:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f1qutfq.fsf@drachen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4E7D05A-8ADB-44C4-88E6-500F2C7E6DA4@gmail.com> (Jean-Christophe Helary's message of "Tue, 9 May 2017 08:15:23 +0900")

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:

> >    (split-string "abc, ;def g,hi" nil nil ",\\|;")
> >    =>
> >      ("abc" "def" "g")  ; BUG
>
> Ok, and the way to get your result is:
>
> (split-string "abc, ;def g,hi" nil nil "\\(,\\|;\\)")
>
> which means that Emacs thinks it is the caller's duty to provide the
> grouping construct, which also happens to be ugly, and non-intuitive
> since ",\\|;" is an otherwise valid regexp...
>
> So, how do we go about that? Do we report a bug? Or do we find a good
> reason for that to happen and modify the documentation for
> split-string ?

I'm curious what could be reasons not to fix this (in the code).
Allowing only a subset of possible regexps would be quite strange.
Would there be any advantages?


Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-02  9:34 Trimming strings, /emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el modification Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-02 15:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-05-02 22:35   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-02 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-02 22:48   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-02 23:11 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-05-03  1:13   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06  2:41     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06  4:29       ` Tino Calancha
2017-05-06  9:02         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06  9:22           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-06 10:33             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06 10:43               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-06 11:02                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06 13:05                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06 13:51                     ` Tino Calancha
2017-05-06 14:24                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07  2:25                         ` Tino Calancha
2017-05-07  2:43                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 10:40                             ` Tino Calancha
2017-05-06 17:51                     ` Johan Bockgård
2017-05-06 19:02                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-06 19:55                         ` Johan Bockgård
2017-05-06 20:03                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 16:23                             ` Johan Bockgård
2017-05-07 16:53                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-10  9:21                                 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-10 11:15                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-10 11:56                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-10 12:21                                     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-08  2:40                             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-08 14:28                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-08 21:33                                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-08 22:45                                   ` Johan Bockgård
2017-05-08 23:15                                     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-09 12:05                                       ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2017-05-09 13:09                                         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-09 14:05                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-05-10  9:30                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-05-10 11:11                                             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-09 15:23                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-09 15:33                                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-09 16:21                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-09 23:03                                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-10  0:45                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-10  2:44                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-10  3:09                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-10  3:49                                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-10 11:55                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-09 16:37                                             ` Andreas Schwab
2017-05-10  2:29                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-10  7:45                                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-05-10 11:07                                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-07  4:39                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-07 14:49                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-07 13:48                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-10 14:26                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
     [not found]                     ` <95032941-C381-47C3-9554-3E13DE6A5013@gmail.com>
2017-05-16 22:21                       ` bug#26908: Fwd: " Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-17  2:26                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-17  3:41                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06 11:06                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-06 16:30           ` Drew Adams
2017-05-06 17:44             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-06 18:07               ` subr-x.el code and defsubst [was: Trimming strings, /.../subr-x.el modification] Drew Adams
2017-05-14 22:45                 ` Tianxiang Xiong
2017-05-15  1:11                   ` Drew Adams
2017-05-06  9:12         ` Trimming strings, /emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el modification Andreas Schwab
2017-05-06 10:31           ` Tino Calancha

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