Subject: Re: bug#1321: process-lines

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:20:14 +0200

"Peder O. Klingenberg" <[email-masked]> writes:

> That’s another possibility, of course.  But in my opinion, the &rest
> is usually a more convenient API for the callers, saving them the
> trouble of consing up a new list.

Yup, makes sense to me.

Stefan raises the excellent objection that `process-lines' is pretty
trivial, and that it's not much used.  The former is definitely true,
but I wonder whether the reason it's not used much is because of the
very awkward interface.  Peder's patch fixes this by introducing a
-ignore-status version of the function (which is how it should have been
all along), so perhaps this version will get more usage.

So I've applied Peder's patch to Emacs 28.

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