GNU bug report logs - #21766
25.0.50; delete-trailing-whitespace sometimes deletes non-whitespace

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>

Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 21769

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 21766 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21766 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
Subject: Re: bug#21766: 25.0.50;
 delete-trailing-whitespace sometimes deletes non-whitespace
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:01:48 +0100

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Apparently, the call to skip-syntax-backward is altering the match
> data.

No, skip-syntax-backward is safe.  There must be something in
line-beginning-position that does this, but only indirectly.

Andreas.

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