Subject: bug#21766: 25.0.50; delete-trailing-whitespace sometimes deletes non-whitespace

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:30:15 +0100

On 28.10.2015 20:19, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> (save-match-data
>>> (skip-syntax-backward "-" (line-beginning-position)))
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>> Ok, I see it now, it is the new parse_sexp_propertize stuff which is
>> called by SETUP_SYNTAX_TABLE.
> Indeed, internal--syntax-propertize needs to be fixed so it preserves
> the match-data!
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When internal--syntax-propertize is fixed, the current fix will be 
useless, i.e. redundant.

Is there a task-keeper for this scenario?