From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value [PATCH] Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:51:01 +0300 Message-ID: <8336jwl7sa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tvcdlm8x.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="30487"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: mattiase@acm.org, 36372@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 26 16:52:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9HN-0007ll-Cm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40840 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9HM-0000iy-El for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34369) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9HH-0000iK-80 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9HG-0000Pq-8Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:51436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9HF-0000On-SP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9HF-0001OJ-Pj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:52:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36372 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 36372-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36372.15615606965315 (code B ref 36372); Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36372) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jun 2019 14:51:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36747 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9Gq-0001Nf-7w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:51:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56471) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9Go-0001NP-8B for 36372@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9Ge-0008Fm-Tu; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:51:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1114 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hg9GZ-0007kD-3l; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:51:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:51:41 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:161509 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:51:41 +0200 > Cc: 36372@debbugs.gnu.org > > So it isn't used in-tree at all. Since it's an (in my opinion) pretty > useless parameter as it's currently implemented, I think we should > deprecate the parameter and remove the documentation. I disagree. This has been in Emacs since 2000, it's too late to remove it. We must assume that whoever wrote the code (which operated like that from the get-go) actually meant for it to operate like that.