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From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: split-string description in the ELR
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 07:46:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AA8EEFE6-06E9-46DD-9AA8-BE65F1650A37@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c26dfd7-b40a-4339-89e0-8f627c99c247@default>


> On May 2, 2017, at 1:20, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Without Eli's comment I would never have thought of using split-string to
>> trim a string. But even reading the reference did not make it's use super
>> clear. In the description "trim" is just an option to trim the substrings
>> resulting from splitting the string and it is not obvious that it can be
>> used on it's own to trim a given string.
>> 
>> Could a small modification of the reference be in order to emphasize that
>> use (with an example eventually) ?
> 
> Good idea.

Well, I'll try to propose something that puts a bit more emphasis on the "trim" part.

> Additionally, or instead, we could create a function
> that is an alias and that has "trim" in the name.

And I definitely leave that to you :)

Jean-Christophe 


      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-01 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-01 15:38 split-string description in the ELR Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-01 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-01 22:46   ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]

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