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Re: Bug in simple.el?
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Bug in simple.el? |
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Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:00:38 +0000 (UTC) |
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Hello, Marcin.
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> Hello there,
> either there is a bug in simple.el (the `newline' function), or I don't
> understand something.
> Here's an excerpt:
> (let* ((was-page-start (and (bolp) (looking-at page-delimiter)))
> ;; (some code cut from here)
> ;; If the newline leaves the previous line blank, and we
> ;; have a left margin, delete that from the blank line.
> (save-excursion
> (goto-char beforepos)
> (beginning-of-line)
> (and (looking-at "[ \t]$")
> (> (current-left-margin) 0)
> (delete-region (point)
> (line-end-position))))
> (BTW: page-delimiter is by default "^^L", i.e. caret and C-l, so the
> (and (bolp) ...) seems to be spurious.)
> But my real problem with the above code is the (looking-at "[ \t]$")
> part. Shouldn't the regex be "[ \t]+$"?
Yes, I think it should be, too. Since nobody else has reacted, I suggest
you repost this in bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org with a more specific title, say
"Bug in regexp in `newline'"; it could be that "Bug in simple.el?" was too
generic to attract people's attention.
> Best,
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
> Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Adam Mickiewicz University
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Bug in simple.el?, Marcin Borkowski, 2015/01/15
- Re: Bug in simple.el?,
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