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27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 36372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36372: 27.0.50; replace-regexp-in-string skips START first chars in return value [PATCH]
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:51:41 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 'grep'? Sounds complicated. I ran a combination of find-dired and
> diredp-do-apply-function over the lisp sources, and none of the 656
> calls to replace-regexp-in-string have 7 arguments.

I started thinking about adding a check in the byte compiler for this,
but now you've checked anyway.  :-)

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.

Then, perhaps, in ten years time we can reintroduce the parameter with
better semantics.  :-)

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