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

[Johan Bockgård]

Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> writes:

>> No, the issue is whether the function should enclose the argument in a
>> grouping constructs of any kind, or should this be the caller's
>> responsibility when the regexp includes \|.
>
> (split-string) in subr.el (line 3808) doesn't use grouping constructs
> so why do something different than what's already the norm in an
> official emacs lisp file? Doesn't that settle the issue?

To me, that's nothing other than a bug:

    (split-string "abc, ;def g,hi" nil nil "[,;]")
    =>
      ("abc" "def" "g,hi")

    ;; Should be equivalent!
    (split-string "abc, ;def g,hi" nil nil ",\\|;")
    =>
      ("abc" "def" "g")  ; BUG