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23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 1212 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1212: 23.0.60; split-string-and-unquote problems
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:36:52 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
> Cc: 1212 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:24:11 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,
> >> 	DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no version=3.1.0
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
> >> Cc: 1212 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> >> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:50:30 +0200
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > The answer to that specific question is completely irrelevant to the
> >> > problem I reported in the original bug report.  You need to consider
> >> > all the examples and questions together.
> >> 
> >> It makes half of your examples useless.
> >
> > I made a lot of trials out of sheer despair.  The examples were
> > supposed to demonstrate that nothing worked.
> 
> Of course, if there is nothing to split.  What's your point?

The point is that the function says it also _unquotes_.  It's the
unquoting that didn't work for me in the cases I described in the bug
report.  Adding more text just so it could split doesn't change the
problematic behavior, but would clutter the bug report with irrelevant
details.

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