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From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13617@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13617: 24.2.92; [PATCH] Add strip-string
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:42:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k3owkuw5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2fw1d91n2.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:40:01 +0800")

Hello Stefan,

On 2013-02-03 17:40 +0800, Leo Liu wrote:
> I looked at skip-chars-forward before opening this bug but found it
> complicate things by introducing new rules.
>
> In strip-string the idea is to have a default covering 90% of the use
> cases:
>
> (strip-string s)        ; strip both
> (strip-string s nil "") ; strip leading
> (strip-string s "")     ; strip trailing
>
> Refer users to regexp as in (info "(elisp)Regexp Special") for the
> remaining 10% use cases.
>
> Regards,
> Leo

What is your take on this?

BTW, comment-string-strip cannot handle strings with newline in them, is
this an oversight?

Leo





  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-03  7:35 bug#13617: 24.2.92; [PATCH] Add strip-string Leo Liu
2013-02-03  8:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-02-03  8:50   ` Leo Liu
2013-02-03  8:56     ` Andreas Schwab
2013-02-03  9:40       ` Leo Liu
2013-03-25  3:42         ` Leo Liu [this message]
2013-03-25  7:48         ` Andreas Röhler
2016-02-24  5:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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