Subject: Re: bug#67203: [PATCH] * lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el (diary-list-entries-2) skip leading whitespace in diary entries

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:11:34 -0800

"Paul W. Rankin" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> ---
> When diary entries have more than a single space between date and entry
> this is displayed in diary display. This skips the leading whitespace.

Thanks.  Could you give examples of a file with and without this
whitespace, and instructions for how to test your change?  I don't use
diary much myself.

Please also always send patches as attachments, formatted by

    git format-patch -1

Bonus points if you could also provide unit tests for this stuff, but
that's optional since this library currently lacks any.

>  lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el b/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el
> index 0d894f1..6806039 100644
> --- a/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el
> +++ b/lisp/calendar/diary-lib.el
> @@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ any entries were found."
>                  (setq date-start (line-end-position 0))
>                  ;; Actual entry starts on the next-line?
>                  (if (looking-at "[ \t]*\n[ \t]") (forward-line 1))
> +                ;; We don't want leading whitespace
> +                (skip-chars-forward " \t")
>                  (setq entry-found t
>                        entry-start (point))
>                  (forward-line 1)
> --
> 2.42.0