On Nov 22, 2013 6:07 AM, "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> >> > * string-chop
>
> I can't remember using something similar to string-chop.  In Perl, this
> was handy because it's frequent to receive "a line with a terminating
> LF", but in Emacs it doesn't seem to happen nearly as often.

I'm guessing you don't use `shell-command-to-string' much.