GNU bug report logs - #1321
process-lines

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 21:30:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 1321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Peder O. Klingenberg" <peder <at> klingenberg.no>
Cc: 1321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#1321: process-lines
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:20:14 +0200

"Peder O. Klingenberg" <peder <at> klingenberg.no> 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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