Re: Trimming strings, /emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/subr-x.el modification

[Michael Heerdegen]

Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> writes:

> > I'm curious what could be reasons not to fix this (in the code).
>
> Because split-string is used all over the place in Emacs and we'd have
> to check that the fix is not breaking some code somewhere in ways that
> we can't always guess?

I see.

OTOH we would probably also fix a lot of use cases that were broken
until now, unrecognized, in subtle ways.  Also in code outside of the
Emacs repository.

> > Allowing only a subset of possible regexps would be quite strange.
>
> Not if you document the strangeness.

Per definitionem.  In the long term, it might still be less work to fix
it.


Michael.