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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:51:01 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:51:41 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> So it isn't used in-tree at all.  Since it's an (in my opinion) pretty
> useless parameter as it's currently implemented, I think we should
> deprecate the parameter and remove the documentation.

I disagree.  This has been in Emacs since 2000, it's too late to
remove it.  We must assume that whoever wrote the code (which operated
like that from the get-go) actually meant for it to operate like that.