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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:29:11 +0200

"Drew Adams" <[email-masked]> writes:

> This source code line of `autoload-generate-file-autoloads':
>
>  (if (= (char-after (1+ (point))) ? )
>
> should be replaced by this:
>
>  (if (= (char-after (point)) ? )

[...]

> You can use cookies like this:
>
> ;;;###autoload (autoload 'icicle-mode "icicles" 
> ;;;###autoload"Icicle mode: Toggle minibuffer input completion and cycling.
> ;;;###autoload Non-nil prefix ARG turns mode on if ARG > 0, else off.
> ;;;###autoload It is a global minor mode.  It binds minibuffer keys."
> ;;;###autoload t nil)

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?

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

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