Subject: bug#13670: 24.3.50; `autoload-generate-file-autoloads' off-by-one bug

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:11:31 -0700 (PDT)

> If we make this change, then autoloads that want to have a single space
> at the start of the string (and use this syntax to do that) would then
> not have that space?

No.  See the bug report.  Only the first SPC should be used
as a separator.  If you want an initial SPC char included
then you use SPC SPC.

> Have you examined the sources to see whether that's potentially a
> problem?

No.  Do you see a problem with it?  Do you disagree that this
is a bug, regardless of whether you doubt the proposed solution?

How do you answer this from the bug report?

  if I am wrong that this is a bug, please explain
  how to get proper multiline doc strings.