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Re: FYI: functions.m4: restore mistakenly removed spaces in sed LHS
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: FYI: functions.m4: restore mistakenly removed spaces in sed LHS |
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Thu, 22 May 2003 10:41:51 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Jim> Hi!
Jim> Removing a string of SPC bytes before a TAB is usually just fine.
Jim> I suspect that it is always ok when only indentation is affected,
Jim> but in character ranges, regular expressions, sed expressions, etc.
Jim> it's *not* ok to convert ` \t' to `\t'. Instead we should convert
Jim> ` \t' to `\t '. (where \t is the TAB character, of course)
I've been faster on this one (the amount of mistakes in my message
being a clear sign that I really meant to be the first one :)
But actually, sorry, I did not understand you were going for it too.