Subject: Re: bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value [PATCH]

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:11:34 +0200

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:01:45 +0200, Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> said:
    >> 'at that index in STRING, and omit the first START characters from the
    >> return value.'

    Mattias> Thank you, but that would approach circular reasoning (from what return value, exactly? The one that we are in the process of defining?). I went with

    Mattias> [...] If START is non-nil, start replacements at that index in STRING, and omit the first START characters of STRING from the return value.

Sure, that works.

Robert