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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 36372@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value [PATCH]
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:22:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pnn03aup.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tvcc8z4i.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:38:53 +0200")

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> I think this is one of those 'who could possibly be relying on this
> behaviour' bugs that bites you hard if you change things, so
> documentation is probably best.

Yup.  But this is very unusual behaviour for such a function, so even if
documented, it's going to cause confusion...

Has anybody grepped through the Emacs tree to see whether anybody uses
the parameter, and if so, whether it's expecting the wrong behaviour?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-26 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-25 12:01 bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-25 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-26  9:31   ` bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value [PATCH] Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-26  9:38     ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-26 10:01       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-26 11:11         ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-26 10:22       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-06-26 12:32         ` Robert Pluim
2019-06-26 13:51           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-26 14:01             ` Drew Adams
2019-06-26 14:51             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-26 15:20               ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-26 15:59                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-06-26 17:03                   ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-26 17:09                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-26 17:41                       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-06-26 15:17     ` Eli Zaretskii

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